Do you believe military wives receive too little credit?

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:40:30 -0400

My dad was military and consequently rotated quite often. My rub with regards to recognition is the difficulty of women and more particularly Military wives or husbands as the case might be.

My question is what your thoughts on this and do you respect your mothers or wives and the raising of kids in particular?

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 30 at 2014 11:51 PM

SFC Mark Merino — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:51:15 -0400

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

Response by MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca made Aug 31 at 2014 7:55 AM

MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:55:29 -0400

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.

Response by SPC Chelsea Fernandez made Mar 11 at 2015 1:25 AM

SPC Chelsea Fernandez — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:25:24 -0400

I don't wont to offend anyone but I don't have any respect for military wives. They are the silent rank for a reason. All they do is sleep around with other guys or they cant take the stress of their significant other is away and not home. Most of them are not there for love they are around for the benefits and thats just sickening to me. I know alot of wives that are like that

Response by Maj Leonard Starling made Mar 18 at 2015 3:00 PM

Maj Leonard Starling — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:00:00 -0400

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.