[jonascord]

As a rule, speaking as a Marine, Staff NCOs tend toward the most honorable. They are men who KNOW their chosen professions aren't going to make them rich, that their families are going to wear hand-me-downs, the furniture is from Goodwill salvage stores, that they are going to spend a lot of time missing their families.

Perhaps, worst, are deployments, when staff NCO wives always wonder if a staff car is going to pull up in front of a shabby cinderblock duplex, with an officer and a chaplain.

I don't know about today, but back when, I knew E-7s and E-8s who had to work extra part time, smoked hand rolled to save money, and you literally lived at the whim of some idiot like Obama.

[al baby]

Prayers up

[21twelve]

“...wonder if a staff car is going to pull up in front of a shabby cinderblock duplex...”

I saw a long interview with Harold(?) Moore - General in Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam about the “We were soldiers” movie. He and his wife pleaded with the director to redo the taxi cab scenes (bringing the telegraphs to the homes). In the movie the taxi, and then later the wives, go to the wives’ nice homes on base.

Moore said that as soon as the men were deployed, the wives had to find their own housing off base. Usually some run-down rental home, dark apartment, etc. And he wanted that to be shown - that was how these hero's families were actually living.

[Bigg Red]

Well said. Thank you for your service.