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How long has everyone been part of a military family (spouse/kid/etc.) and where is your favorite place that you have been stationed?
I am new to the military life as my husband commissioned only 8 months ago so I have a lot to learn and am eager to hear about the life from those that have been there!
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H went to USAFA for college, and we got married the day after graduation (he chose that, lol), so I guess I've technically only been a part of it for three-ish years. I lived in San Antonio for grad school, although not there for the military, I loved it there. We lived in Albuquerque, and I really liked it there, too. We are at Bragg right now and I am not a fan.
Up next is OH, and I have heard good things about there.
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I've been married for about 5.5 years, so I guess that long. However, I went to a few rotc events with H in college, back in the days when we were just friends.
Favorite place so far is definitely Hawaii. I loved some parts of Japan, too, but I didn't like living in such a rural isolated town.
What was it about San Antonio and Albuquerque that you enjoyed so much?
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I think San Antonio was just an awesome city overall. There was super awesome restaurants, so much awesome stuff to do, and the people were great. Albuquerque is a smaller town, but I liked living on base, there were great things to do outdoorsy stuff and other stuff, there were really great local restaurants, the people were laid back and friendly, I liked learning about the culture of different people there, it was geographically between both our families, and the green chili!! Omg I miss the Mexican food there. Nom Nom Nom. The school system is really hit or miss so if you had school age kids, you'd need to look into where you're living (but I think that's true for most places you'll be). I would not be disappointed if we were there again.
Where are you in OH (if you feel comfortable saying) how long will you be there? I'll be over that way soon!
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We married just after he finished training, so I've been part of a mil family for just over four years.
We've been at Bragg the entire time. He has at least two years left with his current unit here and then I'm really hoping he gets stationed somewhere else. It's been fun, and I like it here, but I'm ready to live somewhere else. Well, except California. I have zero desire to ever go to California and would rather stay here than go there, but anywhere else I'm good.
DH has been in the Air Force for 4 years and he joined 6 months after we got married.
We've only been stationed in CO and TX. CO has mountains and tons of fun things to do. Plus its so beautiful. TX (the part we were in) was a desert wasteland, but I find myself missing it sometimes. The flowering cactus was gorgeous and I liked the western feel it had. That being said, I hope we NEVER get stationed at either again. We're heading to NC in 1 month and I'm hoping we like it. We'll be there a loooooooooong time.
How long is "looooooooong?" : )
Also, why would you hope to never get stationed at either of those places again? At first you seemed like you had great things to say about them. I'm hoping to end up in CO next (or FL) so I'd be interested to hear why you don't want to go back.
Good luck in NC!
I was AD Air Force for 9 years, but separated almost 3 years ago. My H is still AD, so I have been in/around the military for 12 years total.
We have been to four bases so far and my favorite was definitely Okinawa. For being such a small island, there was always something to do. I loved it.
I've only been to two places so far with MH - Egypt and Texas. Out of the two, Egypt was definitely better. There's nothing to do in our little corner of Texas and we are 3 hours from anything I would consider a "city".
I was not wild about Egypt when we were there for a number of reasons, but given the choice between the two I'd take it in a heartbeat.
That's incredible you were sent to Egypt first thing! I'm assuming you are not from there so what was it like adjusting to such a different culture? Also, what was it like adjusting to being so far from family? Any advice?
Sorry to hear you are unhappy in Texas. I hope you don't have too much longer there!
Sorry to hear that he is deployed right now and I hope he returns home safely soon!
Any idea where you'll be at when he gets back? Returning to California?
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We dated while MH was in ROTC and got married shortly after graduation so it's been about 4 years I guess.
We were in Western GA, Washington, are now in Eastern GA, and will be going to Korea this summer. I generally like GA weather but there is not much to do and I don't dig the Southern culture too much. I would go back to WA in a heartbeat. There were so many great things to do out there that you kind of forget it rains so much.
I have been part of the military family since I was born. My father is Army.
My favorite place was Wuerzburg, Germany... The post is closed now though. 1st ID moved back to Arkansas I think?
He's there a minimum of 4 years, but his extension is up in 6 years, so likely at least 6 years depending on whether he gets out (fingers crossed) or re-enlists/goes O, etc.
ETA: to answer the rest of your question, the units. I'd probably stay in CO forever if he wouldn't have had such a bad experience with the unit. It soured everything for us.
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Kirkland would be nice, but the other two Air Force bases in NM are smaller and in more desolate areas.
My dad was AD Army until I was kindergarten age, at which point he switched to National Guard and contracted for the Navy. H has been in the Navy going on 4 years, and we've been married for almost 3.
Norfolk is my favorite base, but I grew up here so I'm biased
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There's not a lot to do in the area.
I studied the Middle East in college and speak Arabic and MH's parents are from Lebanon and Syria so it wasn't totally foreign to me, but living there is a far cry from listen to my ILs talk about the old country.
It was difficult to get used to the constant objectification. I'm a pretty modest person generally (I hardly ever wear sleeveless shirts or anything above the knee) but in the beginning most of what I wore was fairly risqu? compared to most other women. I bought some new clothes and felt a little more comfortable blending in.
It's always weird for me to remember that non-American women are, generally, much less smiley than Americans. My go-to response to most people is to smile and say something friendly, but that's not the case in most other places I've been and people can interpret it to mean things it doesn't. I experienced that when I lived in Ireland too and it was weird then. The first guy I dated when I moved to Dublin used to tell me all the time that he loved how much I smiled because Irish girls never do. In Egypt, smiling seemed to indicate to most men that I wanted to entice them to cheat on their wives.
Other than that, I had a great job and our apartment was amazing. I also liked that the make up of H's office was really different to pretty much any other assignment we will ever have. There were 30 military members - 5 enlisted, 5 captains, 17 lt. cols., 2 cols, and a maj. gen. It was nice to get to know a lot of people who had been around this lifestyle for a lot of years. I learned a lot from them. Simultaneously, it was really weird to be hanging mostly with people whose children were 2-3 years younger than I was.
H has been in 2 years. I loved being stationed in Central California. I loved the weather, the area was beautiful, there was lots to do, and I fell in love with living 10 minutes away from the ocean. I miss it a lot. We are in MT now. I love MT, it is beautiful. But I dislike that we are so far away from everything. The closest city our size or bigger is anywhere from 1-3 hours away easily. I miss certain little things like Red Robin and Best Buy (since my computer warrenty is from there), and the closest those ones are 3 hrs from us. But overall I don't mind it here, but I'll be glad when we get to PCS to somewhere else in a few years.
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