New to all things military...help!

[FLYTPAY]

Are there OCS socks as well?

Nope

 

[MasterBates]

This is a ZOMBIE thread.. Keeps on getting resurrected.

I recommend:

 

[FLYTPAY]

I recommend:

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

 

[Uncle Fester]

And there's your first piece of advice...if you want a serious answer to a question, don't ask anybody wearing wings.

 

[phrogpilot73]

And there's your first piece of advice...if you want a serious answer to a question, don't ask anybody wearing wings.

Ain't that the truth!

If you want the serious answers, look for those with water wings

 

[Uncle Fester]

Naw. SWOs just go on about how bad their day sucked.

 

[ChunksJR]

I'm engaged to a student naval aviator and I know NOTHING about military life. I'll be moving to Pensacola in mid-april and I feel like I should know a bit more and be prepared. Any suggestions??

Back on topic...a few things i've observed in my own marriage over the last 5 years...

1) My wife has been involved heavily with the spouse's clubs since we were engaged in San Diego. Get involved with the "Wives club" unless it becomes a "Knives club" in which case, RUN.

2) FFSC (Fleet and Family Service Center) Military 101 class...helped her with some of the day to day stuff.

3) Our squadron has a "Spouse FAM-0" introduction to your spouse's flight training class. I'm sure that they have something like that in PCola too...

4) Don't get frustrated when you fight and he can roll over and go to bed without solving things...it's called "Compartmentalization" and by the time that flight school is done, he's going to be a champ at it.

5) Enjoy it. Moving is a blast - after the 3rd or 4th time you do it.

6) Get a job/hobby/education. There's no 9-5 job for him anymore...so it'll keep your mind off of the separation.

7) Wait to have kids until after he's done with flight training (about 2 years).

Any others, besides MB encouraging a prenup and Brett talking her out of it?

~D

 

[ChunksJR]

Naw. SWOs just go on about how bad their day sucked.

HA...Like it's just one day...

 

[Uncle Fester]

I've worn Blackshoes and Brown...competitive beat-downness is the national SWO pasttime. "The Captain wants to kill me more than he wants to kill you."

But anyway, back on topic. Like Chunks said, flight school isn't a 9-to-5 proposition. It's more like a new doctor in his residency - weird unpredictable hours, memorizing hundreds of esoteric technical items, etc. It's not that he is putting the job before you by choice, it's just how it is. Be prepared for it, and help him as much as you can (some wives wind up knowing the T-34 EPs better than their husbands).