“And it’s never attractive when officer wives think their husbands rank applies to them.”
Typical words of a dependapotamus:
“Do YOU know who MY husband is?”
My husband was a Major and later a Lt. Col. while stationed at the Pentagon.
We had to live 25 miles out of DC to find a home we could afford. We struggled financially and I worked part time at whatever I could find locally, school cafeteria, drug store cashier, etc.
Out of the blue, a wife of a high rank officer invited me to lunch in town. I drove with another wife 25 miles to the hostess’s house. We then found out that she wanted us to help with a benefit and sale at Bolling AFB, where we had never even been. Oh, and she asked us why didn’t we bring a sack lunch?
Yeah, I’m real impressed with Vindman. When my husband was at the Pentagon, he actually made the coffee every morning like the rest of the Lt. Cols.
Never having been in the military, I'm wondering if I'm correct in my assumption that light colonel is not a particularly impressive rank?