Words cannot possibly express how much deployment sucks especially when yet another birthday rolls around and not only am I a year older, but my husband is yet again on the other side of the world getting shot at. Happy fucking birthday to me! No birthday kiss, no birthday present, and definitely no birthday sex. The only possibility today holds is that it would be my luck that rear-d would call today of all days to tell me my husband is WIA. That would be the icing on the cake. Fuck me.
On a happier note, I don't think I look my age. I feel about 10000 year old, but I am pretty sure I don't look the 35 I actually am. Which is a good thing. My husband likes to tell me that as soon as I look legal, he's done with me and to expect divorce papers. What a sweet guy!
29 September 2010
14 September 2010
TARFU
Sometimes the Army is totally FUBAR! Shit like hot-dogging officers whose main goal in life seems to be kissing ass always annoys me and there's at least one at every post. And no one needs to tell me to "CYA" because I'm not referring to any HMFIC in particular. I just hate people who seem to think RHIP and ignore the efforts of grunts whose job it is to leave the FOB every day to patrol in an AO where IEDs and RPGs are a constant threat or the sergeants who go out their way to take care of their soldiers or the guys in the office doing all their paperwork for them. FTA! What the hell does an AAM or an ARCOM or a CIB mean to a guy who gets fucked in the ass by his own CoC on a daily basis, especially when that CoC is walking away with awards that they did nothing to fucking even be put in for?? Oh, that's right--jack and shit: that's what it means. (OK, maybe I'm still a little bitter about our time at Jackson. . . )
And then there is OPSEC. The constant berating going on to ensure wives are not posting on FB anything that could compromise security, but then feel it’s OK to makes posts to PUBLIC pages that anyone else would have to take down PDQ. There's a group of ladies who have dubbed ourselves the FB MPs and check for OPSEC violations, but you can't really go to anyone and say that someone in authority's brains are SPFO. I guess it's a case of HUOA or they think no one will notice or NBC, but again, RHIP so I say nothing. Can a wife get a case of PTSD?? I may need to use that as an excuse. . .
It never ends. Different post, same assholes. . . Maybe we'll luck out and the bastards who act like this will deploy and end up LLMF and MIA, but I doubt it. I just hope those fuckers don't think that I'm going to develop a bad case of CRS and kiss their asses. Until there is a group of officers that is worth a damn and you can be proud to serve under them, I guess things will be SNAFUed! And in the meantime the word of the day is BOHICA!
And then there is OPSEC. The constant berating going on to ensure wives are not posting on FB anything that could compromise security, but then feel it’s OK to makes posts to PUBLIC pages that anyone else would have to take down PDQ. There's a group of ladies who have dubbed ourselves the FB MPs and check for OPSEC violations, but you can't really go to anyone and say that someone in authority's brains are SPFO. I guess it's a case of HUOA or they think no one will notice or NBC, but again, RHIP so I say nothing. Can a wife get a case of PTSD?? I may need to use that as an excuse. . .
It never ends. Different post, same assholes. . . Maybe we'll luck out and the bastards who act like this will deploy and end up LLMF and MIA, but I doubt it. I just hope those fuckers don't think that I'm going to develop a bad case of CRS and kiss their asses. Until there is a group of officers that is worth a damn and you can be proud to serve under them, I guess things will be SNAFUed! And in the meantime the word of the day is BOHICA!
06 September 2010
The 300
300 was the most incredible movie. All those men wearing so little clothing with all those beautiful muscles. . . Amazing. However, I just finished reading the book "Gates of Fire" and let me tell you, if you haven't read this and you are an Army wife, you need to. "Fighting is like fucking. You like to fuck, boy?" Brilliant.
For those of you who didn't pay attention in history class, missed the movie 300, or are just clueless, Thermopylae actually happened. 300 Spartans with about 3000 allies fought against Xerxes, the king of Persia and his army of 100,000. Using the terrain of Greece, the Spartans held off the Persian army for three days and allowed the rest of Greece the time they needed to muster the army that eventually defeated Xerxes. The 300 died to a man, including their king who went to war knowing the words of the oracle foretelling that only by his own death could Sparta be spared.
The Spartans were in the midst of a holy month and couldn't send the entire army, so Leonidas the king chose 299 men to fight with him. How were these men chosen? They had to have graduated from the agoge, be a citizen, and have a son. So out of an army of 8000 citizens, how many had sons? Certainly more than 300. So how exactly did Leonidas choose the men that went with him? What made them special? Their prowess on the field? The awards they had won? Their position in the army? Their courage? No.
The reason that Leonidas chose the men he did had nothing to do with the virtues of the men themselves. He chose the men he did for the courage of their wives . These were Army wives who could be counted on to fight down their own sadness and to stand up with pride. Women who could face any challenge, including death, and meet it with grace and honour. If you didn't have a wife like that, you didn't go to Thermopylae.
We remember the names of men who fought at Thermopylae more than 2500 years ago, but the names of men in the battles that followed are largely forgotten. The women in these soldiers' lives guaranteed their place in history and the honour they have even today. They are the epitome of what a military wife can and should be. Read this book! The Rakkasans have a standing in the Army like the Spartans had 2500 years ago and a similar reputation of being ass kicking, hard core, fuck up your world soldiers who take shit from no one. If we Rakkasan wives look to the Spartan women as our models and emulate them, there will not be anything that we can't handle with poise and grace. "With each step you take, bear courage in mind." Now let's kick this deployment's ass, ladies!
For those of you who didn't pay attention in history class, missed the movie 300, or are just clueless, Thermopylae actually happened. 300 Spartans with about 3000 allies fought against Xerxes, the king of Persia and his army of 100,000. Using the terrain of Greece, the Spartans held off the Persian army for three days and allowed the rest of Greece the time they needed to muster the army that eventually defeated Xerxes. The 300 died to a man, including their king who went to war knowing the words of the oracle foretelling that only by his own death could Sparta be spared.
The Spartans were in the midst of a holy month and couldn't send the entire army, so Leonidas the king chose 299 men to fight with him. How were these men chosen? They had to have graduated from the agoge, be a citizen, and have a son. So out of an army of 8000 citizens, how many had sons? Certainly more than 300. So how exactly did Leonidas choose the men that went with him? What made them special? Their prowess on the field? The awards they had won? Their position in the army? Their courage? No.
The reason that Leonidas chose the men he did had nothing to do with the virtues of the men themselves. He chose the men he did for the courage of their wives . These were Army wives who could be counted on to fight down their own sadness and to stand up with pride. Women who could face any challenge, including death, and meet it with grace and honour. If you didn't have a wife like that, you didn't go to Thermopylae.
We remember the names of men who fought at Thermopylae more than 2500 years ago, but the names of men in the battles that followed are largely forgotten. The women in these soldiers' lives guaranteed their place in history and the honour they have even today. They are the epitome of what a military wife can and should be. Read this book! The Rakkasans have a standing in the Army like the Spartans had 2500 years ago and a similar reputation of being ass kicking, hard core, fuck up your world soldiers who take shit from no one. If we Rakkasan wives look to the Spartan women as our models and emulate them, there will not be anything that we can't handle with poise and grace. "With each step you take, bear courage in mind." Now let's kick this deployment's ass, ladies!
04 September 2010
Your cheating heart
I get it. Deployment sucks. A lot. You want the list of shit I hate about deployment? Well here's my top ten with number 1 sucking the most:
1. Just being alone all the time
2. Having to be mom and dad to 4 kids
3. Not being able to have an adult conversation
4. Taking care of the house and cars alone
5. Waiting for the phone to ring just to hear his voice
6. Dealing with in-laws who just don't get it
7. Lack of sex
8. Lack of sleep
9. Cooking for my kids (really cooking, because chicken nuggets don't work nightly)
10. Spending money on getting my lawn mowed
Some of this is petty and stupid, but honestly bothers me. Here's the point I want to make though: notice where sex is on this list. It made the top ten, but it's not number one. I like sex as much as the next person--I mean, I do have four kids--but sex is not an all-encompassing, all-important thing that I cannot live without.
I keep asking myself why I am hearing about people cheating (and not just wives here) and divorces and all this stupidity. Why the fuck did you get married if you can't keep your damn pants on? It astounds me that guys overseas are screwing around (how they find the time or the women is beyond me) and wives here are leaving their husbands for some guy they met in a bar. WTF??
Get your heads out of your asses. There is more to marriage than sex and if you can't see that, you shouldn't have gotten married. But if you are a wife stateside, you could at least have the common decency to wait until your husband gets home to leave him. Doing it during deployment is basically saying that he could come home in a box for all you care. You also better not come within range of me because I have no tolerance for this shit and you will not like what I have to say. Just be warned. You fuck around on one of my boys and I will fuck your world.
1. Just being alone all the time
2. Having to be mom and dad to 4 kids
3. Not being able to have an adult conversation
4. Taking care of the house and cars alone
5. Waiting for the phone to ring just to hear his voice
6. Dealing with in-laws who just don't get it
7. Lack of sex
8. Lack of sleep
9. Cooking for my kids (really cooking, because chicken nuggets don't work nightly)
10. Spending money on getting my lawn mowed
Some of this is petty and stupid, but honestly bothers me. Here's the point I want to make though: notice where sex is on this list. It made the top ten, but it's not number one. I like sex as much as the next person--I mean, I do have four kids--but sex is not an all-encompassing, all-important thing that I cannot live without.
I keep asking myself why I am hearing about people cheating (and not just wives here) and divorces and all this stupidity. Why the fuck did you get married if you can't keep your damn pants on? It astounds me that guys overseas are screwing around (how they find the time or the women is beyond me) and wives here are leaving their husbands for some guy they met in a bar. WTF??
Get your heads out of your asses. There is more to marriage than sex and if you can't see that, you shouldn't have gotten married. But if you are a wife stateside, you could at least have the common decency to wait until your husband gets home to leave him. Doing it during deployment is basically saying that he could come home in a box for all you care. You also better not come within range of me because I have no tolerance for this shit and you will not like what I have to say. Just be warned. You fuck around on one of my boys and I will fuck your world.
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