DO YOU LIKE YOUR HUSBAND being in the ARMY and why? schools? living on post?

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Answer 1

It has its advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
1) Two steady paychecks a month, the same amount every month (except when there are new allotments, or when COLA (cost of living allowance) fluctuates).
2) The money isn't bad. It's not great, but it's not bad either.
3) Medical, though it's mediocre.
4) The Commisary and PX are both pretty cheap. And it's great that we don't have to pay German prices for gas; instead we pay what everyone back home is paying (stationed in Germany now).
5) Never knowing where we're going to wind up next...though that's also a disadvantage.
6) Living on-post is good and bad. At Fort Lewis, we lived off-post. Here in Germany, we live on-post. It's cool that we don't have to pay for electricity, sewage or water. And our apartment is pretty nice, though I wish the bedrooms were bigger. On the other hand, half of our neighbors suck. They're just RUDE and they take our parking space constantly, and they complain about stupid stuff, even though their dog barks incessantly.
As for disadvantages:
1) Moving around a lot is a big stress on kids, and on a marriage.
2) The long separations can be tedious.
3) Our commisary and PX are forever sold out of stuff. We live at the forgotten military post, lol.
Altogether? I don't mind it, and my husband and I have been together for four years.

Answer 2

No. I loathe the fact that my husband is in The Army but I love the man and accept that as he has been in for 28 years thus far that he is unlikely to change his mind now! He trained as a Lawyer before going to Sandhurst and during the long separations of Op Tours I wish very hard that he had stuck to his original career choice. However, there are compromises. We do not, and never have lived on a Base. The thought of everyone knowing your business is not something I could enjoy. I have kept my career throughout, sometimes involving long commutes, so that I did not become one of those bored Officers wives who gossip all day, and so that I could remain the woman he married. The children do board but they come home every weekend, and I have never accompanied my husband on a foreign posting to ensure that the children (and we) had a constant family home. It is perfectly workable if you are prepared to spend alot of time commuting to see each other which is somewhat like dating again! The worst possible thing to do is to make his job your life. It isn't.

Answer 3

I don't exactly LIKE him being in the army....but i support him 100 percent. He's doing something alot of people don't have the guts to do. He's in Iraq now, fighting for what he thinks is right...and i think that's the best job in the world. It means something to him, so it means something to me. I don't live on post, and i'm sooo glad about that. I don't go on post unless it's absolutely necessary.....it's too busy!! The PX is nice...but again, it's always so crowded...All in all the army life isn't so bad, but i can't WAIT til we're civilians again.

Answer 4

Well I met my husband in the Army but I'm glad he's getting out. That's just because I don't want him to be gone all the time. I love the benefits. I don't go on post unless I have to though (it's too crowded).

Answer 5

I love my husband and support him. the military is not the most glamourous life for us or for our two young dauughters. so i can't that i really enjoy him being in the army. i hate it when he has to go to iraq or when he is in the field more than he is at home. and since we are over seas, it seems that everything is worse. we have to depend on the military for everything. everything from our groceries to our clothes to our day care . . . where at home i can run down to walmart, or choose where i shop for clothes or groceries. you can get real sick of the army real quick, but i will continue to support my husband, but that doesn't mean that i have to love his job.

Answer 6

1) cheaper grocery store
2)new but, falling apart, overpriced, and privatized military housing
3) steady pay checks
4)living pay check to pay check
5)free medical
6)having to pay for dental work
7)military doesn't help you or your family unless the spouse is deployed.
has its goods and its bads', right now it has more bad than good.

a military wife

Answer 7

i hate the fact that my man decided to join the military he is leaving in august to Iraq and we just had our daughter 2 months ago... it was his choice and i do support him... not the war...