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"We," as in "we, the American people" went to Iraq in March of 2003.

I was simply trying to be helpful. I did not mean that I went to Iraq. We, the nation, went to Iraq at the time I was...

My husband spent his first enlistment contract as a reservist. He never had any issue with employers discriminating against him as far as HIRING him went.

However...even though there are laws in...

NEVER give a woman that many calories without telling her so up front. HA HA HA HA.

The effort he put in to making it nice, however, was very sweet. How funny! My kid loves MRE's. She thinks...

Not to make light of it...by any stretch...but this kind of work is also a GREAT way to deal with nicotine cravings and the general process of breaking a smoking habit.

I have not yet totally...

Some of the marital retreat-type seminars that I have seen offered through the USMC have value for young or inexperienced couples who might not have ever actually sat to think about how their partner...

Thank you so much, Everyone, for all this interest. I have been looking for a community like this one for a long time. I hope I can be useful to people as often as I am being helped by others.
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That is wonderful news! Congratulations, Mom!

Oh! And this is a very spouse-ish question, but I'm a spouse, so it tracks:

I have a houseful of furniture and my car (that I love) in storage in California from when we got sent here. If we...

Well depending on the school and/or teachers, I may end up homeschooling. You'd be shocked what kind of socialist drivel is being taught...even in the DoD schools. I'm also pretty big into mixing...

I SAY THE SAME THING!!!!

That has irritated the crap out of me since we got here! All the commericials are beyond the pale stupid...but then here come the recruiting ads. ??? Hello. Your...

Back when my husband was a Corporal, I became the "den mother" so to speak. There was just hardly ever a night when we didn't have at least one single marine flopped on our couch for the night or...

Wow! Thank you.

And I have to say (cause it's totally my job)...my husband never met a training school he couldn't ace. His ability to pass is just not a question in my mind. :angel:
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ha ha...my husband just read this, and when he saw the reference to Anthony, he said, "That guy!" Being such a small universe in the USMC, my husband has run into problems multiple times over...

Oh, and before I forget...Nelda's motivational quote reminded me to share the one I have.

My wonderful stepmother gave me a refrigerator magnet when I married my Marine. It is still on my fridge...

The best men I have ever known are Marines. I can promise you that he will be just fine! The next time you see him, he will blow you away. This boy that you've raised will come back to you as a...

Many of the EOD guys out here (I'm currently on Okinawa with my family) are deployed to Afghanistan right now...returning at the end of this month.

If he needs anything, I would be happy to help...

It will take him some time to adjust to being home. Depending on how often you were able to correspond and how frequently he was able to reconnect, in some way, with his home life...coupled with...

Oh sorry...no, he's not Anthony. His MOS is 38-something. He worked with the huge radios.

Thank you. I will show him this when he gets home. It's possible he knows more than I do about all...

My daughter was born in 2003, and my husband was gone in Iraq throughout the pregnancy. The best thing I ever did was move home to be with family. At that time, we had not been an active duty...

No...we're 7th Comm. His package for the promotion is ready. He still has to get a new "moto" photo done (I think they're doing that this week), but he's running the Corporal course and filling the...

I am discouraged by the numbers of very young women I see marrying very young men who are about to, or have just joined, the military. Because young people don't have the perspective or humility...

First...Thank you for so swift a reply!

Second...He hasn't been selected, yet. His first sergeant saw the list of scores, however, and brought it to his attention that he's in the zone. He has...

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum to put this question in, but it didn't seem to fit exactly anywhere else, either, so I figured I'd put it in the general area.

My husband is a former...

Be ready for the idea that you may have difficulty getting access to his money and that it might not start landing in the account promptly in the beginning.

PLAN AHEAD. Do not assume that the...

You will be busy, Dear.

Depending on the length of your training school, you and your wife need to view this as a deployment and suck it up apart.

You just finished swimming your way out of the...