About military life…This is not a blog. You can’t easily drive me away
In 22 years, the pilot will officially retire from the military! Check out the full summary of Fini Flight and Celebration here.
It’s been almost three weeks and I have a lot of emotions. I still can’t believe he’s just apart now and is actually over. It was a very dynamic lifestyle and filled with the highest prices (nothing like the honeymoon feeling when you’re back!).
It was wild (and I am very grateful to you all) and many of you were here throughout our military life! When we first moved to Valdosta and I started blogging, we were newly married and I was completely new to this whole lifestyle.
baby!
Our military life was untold with pure joy, not just the return of deployment and fun squadron events, but also the likes of sadness, fear, worry.
– The incredible feeling when I hug them for the first time each time they unfold.
– When he’s been going for a long time and then feels like a stranger.
– Enjoy fun squadron events and late at night drinking wine and chatting with women.
– I spoke to him on the phone while he was unfolding, and hearing rocket attack alerts in the background. (It was the voice of a woman with a British accent saying, “Rocket attack. Rocket attack.”)
– Careful packaging and delivery deployment care package. I get excited to check my emails and take great care of my handwritten letters and cards.
– Learning that his plane had been hit by a bullet during a specific flight abroad.
When I first met the pilot, I asked how often he had to be and if he had to unfold. He said it probably shouldn’t be gone at all and probably won’t need to unfold. (All my military wife friends can giggle here.) He was stationed in North Carolina six months later, and was deployed for the first time within a year. He eventually unfolded four times.
Military life is always flexible and inherently a strict lifestyle for unknown people. One of the hardest lessons for me is that no matter what was happening, the military was always the first.
I have no choice but to grip, but there are many things that burn in my heart, but when I had surgery (one hand was splint), preschool children, and severe newborn babies, reflux, and he It was tdy for over a week.
Many times I felt that the end would not be here and I joked that he dragged me into the finish line, the weathered bag. The weathered bag made it!
When a military wife talks about her struggle, she sometimes hears, “I know what you were in.” For this reason, we are often embarrassed to talk about difficult parts. You are expected to keep a smile on your face and focus on and go along with all the benefits of military life. I really believe in being as positive as possible, but it’s okay to look around and start to get “this is insanely difficult.”
I smile (mostly lol), support my love of life, host parties, participate, go to important events, hold back the fort during development, for long periods of time, during TDY, My heart and my heart and my heart have placed my soul to make the most of it for the children. I was honest when I had a rough day here and there, but I didn’t want to know the size of what I felt. He was commander for three years and did an amazing job, but it was difficult for our marriage and family.
You can love your husband, you can be proud of him, you can love and support our army…and be a military wife Not everything about *love*. You can make the absolute best, but you don’t necessarily enjoy all of that aspects. It’s okay if you just struggle to get through it, and sometimes you just play the parts and feel that way. I just wanted to hold it down and send my love to my fellow military wife. If you feel like you never reach the finish line, you will. You are surprisingly strong – hang out there.
Many things can become true at once. You can look back with sadness, love, fatigue, joy, and gratitude.
As the Pilot’s girlfriend, a small note to A-10, aka The Pilot’s girlfriend:
-Thank you for your ability to support our country
-Thank you for the happy memories
-Thank you for the opportunity to cook so many baby meals – one of my favorites about this whole experience
-Thank you for your amazing health insurance. Some people have complicated experiences, but I can only say great things about Tricare.
-Thank you to my military friends who have become like family
-Thank you very much
She did a great job looking after him and always brought him home to us. Over 3,400 hours in this beautiful cockpit, and while I’m not necessarily missing out on my lifestyle, I miss the joy the pilot has gained from flying the A-10. His achievements. I know him because I am so proud of everything he has done in the last 19 years (under 22 total in the Air Force).
I definitely look forward to returning to the world of commercial airlines after enjoying a long and much-needed holiday as a pilot.
Thank you for being there for us during this crazy twist and turn of military life. I look forward to Chapter 2 while turning the pages.
xoxo
Gina
