that you have with the Army. One day, the Army can make me feel like my husband and my family are part of the greatest force on Earth, and the next I feel like the Army threw me into a pool full of razorblades! There are things I love about Army life and things I hate with a passion. Unfortunately, deployments tend to bring that love/hate thing into sharp clarity and the phone calls I've been getting lately from families and Rear-D in general have really tried my love for the Army. I'm not sure how much one person should be expected to handle emotionally, so I suppose I should be grateful that I am a bitch who can stay emotionally detached most of the time.
Generally speaking, I love the Army. It's a steady paycheck, great benefits, provides "vacations" from my husband, and gives me a chance to volunteer where my help is really needed and appreciated. I enjoy the fact that there's always something going on and that you have to be ready for the unexpected. It's a great life and it's been good for us.
Having said that, though, I do have a few little things that irk me about the military life: crappy pay (however steady it may be), useless lazy soldiers, psycho wives who are terrified to be alone for a minute, long ass deployments, and the terror and heart-wrenching I go through everytime one of the boys gets hurt!! This shit, I HATE.
Well, fuck me sideways. It isn't the Army I hate after all--it's the people you encounter in the Army and the situations you can't avoid. Well that makes it easier.
I love the Army.
Useless soldiers, crazy wives, deployments, and the people who hurt my boys can go FUCK themselves!
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