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RE: Military wives support - 4/11/2009 9:05:05 AM
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BlessedMamaofmany
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Is your brother a Christian Cathrine??
Pornography and binge drinking are rampant over there. As our friend says, If you don't drink, you will. If you already drink you'll be an alcoholic. If you're an alcoholic, you'll probably kill yourself drinking.
I've heard from other christian men that it is very difficult to resist the pornography and the easy access to prostitutes
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RE: Military wives support - 4/11/2009 9:10:15 AM
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My brother is a finance guy, but even he took turns patrolling the 'juice bars'. The bars that were the blatant offenders were blacklisted, but there were more then a few that were open to the service men. Bro can hold his liquor, but prostitutes never interested him.
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RE: Military wives support - 4/11/2009 2:01:13 PM
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BlessedMamaofmany
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BTW, I hope this doesn't sound terrible. I don't mean to make Korea out to be a horrible station. It's not that bad...and most men do just fine there. BUT, the other things are not widely talked about and I think lots of young soldiers/airmen are caught off guard when they are confronted with that culture
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RE: Military wives support - 4/11/2009 2:36:36 PM
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BlessedMamaofmany
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That makes sense. Lots of guys do that.
When does he go?
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RE: Military wives support - 4/30/2009 8:26:02 PM
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Hi everyone! I'm new to the Women's Only forum and obviously this thread. I'd like to join in if you all don't mind. I'm not a wife yet (hoping to be soon), but my darling is in the military. He is in the AF Reserves so he fortunately hasn't been deployed as many times as some of your husbands have been. He was in Iraq about a year ago. Right now he is state side, but away on training across the country from me and I'm missing him terribly right now.
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RE: Military wives support - 5/1/2009 5:46:28 PM
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angel_wings13
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Right now he is only gone for a week...then he'll be home for five days then gone again for another week. I can't really complain about it, but I do miss him terribly. I'll take this stint away over his other deployments. This is the first year we've been together that he hasn't either gone to Iraq or left for many months for state side training.
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RE: Military wives support - 5/1/2009 8:20:49 PM
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Wow! You are one strong woman. I can't even imagine. He is up for re-enlistment next year. He isn't sure what he wants to do yet. Part of me (the selfish part) wants him to get out....part of me just wants him to do what makes him happy.
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RE: Military wives support - 5/4/2009 2:47:10 AM
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Hi all! I disappeared, I'm sorry. I kept meaning to pop on and say hi and yet, well, I'm sure you all know how it happens. I need to do some reading to get caught up on y'all. Our status is that we have been fighting sickness after sickness pretty much since Rob left. That's 9 months now. :( Still, lots of blessings too I just wish we could stop getting sick. Gideon in particular was hard hit recently and spent a week in the hospital just before his first birthday. Poor baby. He has a recently discovered chronic issue that I will probably post about in the health folder soon. I have some questions from anyone who has experience. Soon.
If I could use bad words here I'd probably use them all to describe my experience with TriCare since they took over as our insurance company. I've renamed them "FailCare". 'nuff said.
On a happy note we are down to just less than 3 months before Rob comes home. I get to hear from him every couple of days or so by phone or e-mail. Skype has not worked for us. The few times we tried it it turned out to be more frustrating than anything so we haven't attempted it in a while. I can tell his spirits are being lifted recently by the checking off of days on the calendar. I am about to put together an "anniversary in a box" care package for him. I'm having our wedding video put on DVD and going to send him some special things to have for our anniversary. I think I may send a fancy placemat, candle holder, candle, small vase and fake rose so he can set himself a nice setting for whatever meal he ends up having that day. Maybe a wedding pic in a frame he can set nearby.
My oldest is missing him a great deal but thankfully isn't acting out at all (for him that is the display of extreme emotions), he'll just bring up how much he misses Daddy out of the blue now and again. My little girl thought I told her Daddy was "here" when we were at the grocery store the other day and she sat bolt upright and started looking around from her seat in the grocery cart saying "Daddy?!" Can you break my heart a little more Dear One? I felt like such a wretch "tricking" her like that.
All in all things are well. I hope you all are well too!
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RE: Military wives support - 5/4/2009 11:50:36 AM
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Awwww......Sandy.....that is so sad. Poor little sweetheart.
As I posted a few days ago my beloved was gone away for training for a week. His training was pretty hard he said and he was physically and mentally exhausted. When he got back to his home unit this past Friday night he had to stay around and report at noon on Saturday for weekend drill. I get a call at work at 1pm from him saying he is at the hospital. He had bent over to pick up his gear bag and did something to his knee. Now he has to go see an orthopedic surgeon and find out exactly what he did.
I know it isn't funny, but I can't help chuckle at the fact that he did all this rigorous firefighter training for a week and doesn't hurt himself, but messes up his knee picking up a bag.
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RE: Military wives support - 5/4/2009 11:54:17 AM
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oh Angel that's terrible! I hope he can recover quickly. And yeah. Not funny...but kinda is =P
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RE: Military wives support - 5/5/2009 10:50:31 AM
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Well we definitely need some prayers. My darling found out today that since the military orders he was on when he got hurt were for less than 30 days they are not extending his orders to cover the time he is out from his civilian job. So obviously he has to use his sick time because he can't go to work.
He tried going to his appointment with his orthopedic specialist today and they told him that since they don't have the prior approval letter from TriCare he would have to pay 600-800 dollars up front. Yeah....don't have that kind of cash laying around. So now it just seems to be a wait and see game now.
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RE: Military wives support - 5/8/2009 1:15:39 AM
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IAMJulie
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Sorry you have to wait on the ortho appt. I had that happen when I was supposed to have an MRI. They didn't have TriCare's approval in time and when they called with me right there in the office TriCare told them they wouldn't approve it because they weren't our "primary insurance". What?! I fought that for more than 3 months. Every time they received a claim they rejected it for that reason then I would call and they would say "sorry" and it's "fixed" and yeah right. I'll believe it when I see it. Grr!
Well, it has been a week from some place very hot. Monday morning my sister called and let me know that my mom passed away. While she'd been sick for a long time she'd been doing a lot better so it was still a shock. I keep getting sicker and sicker and now have almost no voice left in addition to coughing and wheezing and feeling exhausted. Having no voice is no good when you've got three LOs at home. And today Gideon burned his fingers on our fireplace. A totally preventable accident so not only do I feel bad that he got hurt and frustrated that it happened now when I already feel crummy about so many other things but I feel terribly guilty as well.
Rob was offered the opportunity to come home for my mom's memorial. We discussed it at length and decided against it for many reasons. One being that I have been preparing my kids for the two months since Rob's leave period that the next time Daddy comes home it is for good. I can't exactly pull that rug out from under them now.
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RE: Military wives support - 5/8/2009 6:11:34 AM
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BlessedMamaofmany
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I'm sorry about your mom Julie. And about Gideon burning his fingers.
((Julie))
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