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Do you like/know your FRO?
She has introduced herself a couple of times at some meetings with the battallion, but I don't really know her yet. Mostly my fault because she has made a meet the FRO luncheon, but it was at a restaurant far away so I couldn't make it. She seems nice enough. The one time I sent her an email she wrote back that she didn't have any info for me then, but would let me know when she did, but she never wrote back.
Re: Do you like/know your FRO?
I get a shitton of emails from the frg leader. I come from an af background, though, so this whole office run by the army thing is weird to me.
I met her once, have never felt a desire to get involved past that. I have a feeling that she would flood me with info if I ever asked, though. There's a monthly meeting, but I've never gone. Their other activities aren't really my thing, either. One was about crafts or something, and there are lots of child-focused events.
She works across the hall from H, and apparently she pesters him about my lack of response
He's the reason I started getting emails after I'd been here for months. He corrected the address she had, and I was inundated. I threatened him not to do that again. There's no reason she needs to know I'm not on the evite list.
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I am like Sibil. I am not involved, and don't plan on being. But that doesn't stop the CO's wife from flooding my inbox with useless junk about base news. News that is sent to me twice from the Family Support Center, since H has been deployed a couple of times. And she LOVES sending baby news all the time, like super personal information. "Hey sperm met egg for so and so... way to keep the AF tradition going!" Ugh.
I am blessed to live so far away from base so I can play passive aggressive and say that I don't want to commute ALL the way up there to play "Spouse" games.
I had to ask h if there is an FRO for his unit. He thought about it, and was like "I guess do, I think there's FRG, so there must be an FRO. It's probably the colonel's wife" to which I replied "so if I was the colonel, you'd be the FRO?" and laughed thinking about my husband being in Claudia Joy's role. That's all I have to contribute to this, which is little helpful contribution at all.
Ps I am aware the FRO doesn't always work like that but it was really funny. And yes i know Claudia Joy's H is not a colonel. Also, it may be obvious, but I'm not involved in that type of stuff really. At our last base I did volunteer with the CGOC type stuff at our last base which was cool. But not really spouse based.
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This whole army thing is new to me. I now appreciate the less invasive (ime) approach of the af. It also helps that it's not a paid position in the af, so you can luck out with someone who doesn't get so into it. Also, I had to google fro b/c I haven't heard it. FRC is I guess the abbreviation of the woman who emails me.
I think each branch calls it something different. Navy has an Ombudsman, and I think Marines has a Key Volunteer (not positive on that one though). But for the most part it's the same role.
AF doesn't really have one that I'm aware of. It's certainly not a funded position like it is with H's unit now. They do have a key spouse program, but I've never seen one anywhere we've been.
I think some of the difference is that the AF often deploys as individuals, so there's not a need for one point person to handle the issues surrounding a large deployment.
The squadron commander's spouse is expected to do some sort of something, but I've generally seen that vary widely depending on the interest of the particular spouse. Location also affects it.
Interesting. Navy's Ombudsmen are still volunteer programs only.