Do you believe military wives receive too little credit?

There's been some debate on this throughout the RP grapevine. We have been fortunate in many respects through my military career. 1) My wife and I have a strong relationship and marriage, w/o this everything would have been that more difficult. 2) We had plenty of family for support when I was deployed. Even though the "direct" assistance wanes after the first few weeks, Pam knew there were her parents, my parents and our siblings to call especially for help with child care. I have great respect for the spouses left behind because it can be draining w/o your partner, especially where children are involved. IMHO, SMs train to deploy and to depend on their fellow SMs. Spouses don't train to be left alone to fend for themselves - OK, one exception for us NG and Reserve folks - when we go on our annual training for 2 weeks and our families are on their own.

I was married to a horrible selfish woman because I was an idiot.

In the Air Force units I served, we always tried to have family events and always paid attention to the newly weds. The wives always reached out tot them. When I retired, my wife received a very nice letter of appreciation as an official document signed out by the Commander of the unit. It was presented in an official document cover just like my retirement documents. All of our wives deserve similar public representations of thanks for their service.