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Service Flag decal
I am wanting to get a service flag decal and am wondering how to display it. Would it go horizontal, vertical, or does it matter?
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Re: Service Flag decal
I thought it might be ok since I'm currently staying in our hometown (not a military town) with my mom, so I'm not alone. Thanks for the info, I have seen it display both ways and I didn't want to be the idiot walking around with it wrong.
It's still really not a good idea. I'm guessing you never heard the story I've told on here quite a few times about a woman who had a man show up to her door in a dress uniform. He told her her husband had been killed on mission. She let him in. He beat her, raped her and left her for dead. He also stole her wallet. She woke up and called the cops. By the time the cops got to work, the guy had cleaned out her bank account and ran up her credit cards for several thousand dollars.
There is really no need to advertise he's gone, which is the entire point of those flags. Keep your self and your loved ones safe.
This. Especially the bold. It doesn't matter where you are, you are still telling everyone that your H is gone. I wouldn't get one, but that's me.
Get and Display it girl!! It goes vertical like you have it.
It doesn't necessarily mean her husband is gone, but it could be a loved one, Husband, Father, Brother, Friend or another Family Member.
Second, anyone who does death notices never goes alone from what Ive seen and what I and my husband are trained on.
Sure, it is possible for some one to get raped, I'm not saying that didnt happen, but you can sit there and nit pick every little thing in life that we can do to make us vulnerable.
If you live on base, then I don't see the problem at all.. If you live off base, then chances are that the average citizen will NOT know what it means.
Some people care more about PERSEC, and that doesn't mean they're wrong because you're more lax on it. We've had threads that are pages long on why good PERSEC is good and tx's example is extreme, yes, but still relevant to know and there are so so so many other examples on what could happen to a lesser degree.
Mostly when I see those kind of things, I just think they are very AWy and not my taste.
I changed my name
Exactly my opinion too. I just don't see the appeal of displaying it at all other than to AW that fact that your H is gone.
Having seen her post here for over a year, it is her husband and she doesn't live on post. I'm not the only person who recommends not having them. As a whole, the MP Regiment, of whom I was a part of, is completely against them. Most commands recommend you don't hang them where people can see them. They are also against those AW stickers that say "Half my heart is in Afghanistan." You open your self up for all sorts of stuff.
Oh, and have just one dude in a uniform show up at your door. All rational thought will leave your mind. Hell, any one who has been through a deployment has a friggin heart attack just hearing the door bell ring when you aren't expecting anyone.
I know. I'm such a worry wort. Nothing ever happens to us. Only other people.
sign me up for that. I want someone to make me dinner.
Op, I don't even like people knowing that my H works nights. I certainly wouldn't want to advertise that he is out of the country. I also don't like most people knowing my business anyway. They don't need to feel sorry for me. I can do that all by myself without their help. My H doesn't need to have a sticker to know that i miss him. He knows that already. So what would the point of it be?
We bought a flag and hung it on the fridge. Strangers don't come into my house and if they do my husky WILL eat them. Don't get the sticker. The px or other exchange stores have the flags, hang it in your home if you want just not where people outside can see it.
DH's mom sent me a flag. It's hanging in our home office. Unless you specifically walked into that room, you'd never see it. I'd never have it in a place where it was in full view consistently.
No one has ever offered to pay my bills, and I wouldn't expect them to just because of a flag. Are you being serious right now? I bet you also think it's not a big deal to talk about homecoming dates if you aren't in a military town and are super careful about it and only talk about it on fb in random posts because no one would EVER piece that together! People who are followers of OPSEC/PERSEC are just paranoid!
GG was kidding.
Oh of course. I actually have a big flashing countdown on my garage door that says X amount of days before my H gets back from deployment. And just to be clear, it's on the garage door that I had painted into a service flag. I live in a safe neighborhood. It's totally fine.
Sarcasm fail much?