Army girlfriend handbook

Rule of thumb: save your gym clothes for the gym and your jammie pants for your home. Excuse the blunt language here, but it is important to keep your butt cheeks tucked away and your cleavage within reason. Save it for a nice night with your husband at home, not for the whole military community to see. Jeans and a t-shirt works just fine. An important way to show honor and respect. Gum chewing, talking, or smoking during the National Anthem is best avoided.

Unfortunately, as attractive as your service member looks in his uniform, PDA is prohibited. There are definitely situations when it is overlooked and very conservative hand-holding or a kiss is okay.

In private is a whole different story. This sounds like a fun idea. Well, at least it does to me. But this is considered highly disrespectful to do this. This leaves the right side available for him to salute if needed, and just good practice overall.

So, so important. If you hear colors or see the raising or retiring of the flag, politely stop and face the flag with your hand over your heart. This also includes if you are driving in your vehicle. Service members are not supposed to walk and talk on a cell phone or walk and eat or drink while in uniform. Usually when a service member is in uniform, they are sitting down to eat and drink anyway.

Car eating is considered okay at some installations. This is on an as needed basis. There are a lot of variations between the different branches, so my best advice is simply to ask your service member about this one. I write about my crazy parenting adventures, discovering happiness in motherhood and navigating the ups and downs of military life.

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If you do live together: Your soldier tells you he is deploying, you think: "Oh crap! Six bloody months? A few days to a few weeks depends on how much time prior to deployment later he comes home with a lot of kit given by army known as military issued kit.

You do not need to know which pouch he carries grenades in or where the hand combat knife goes, or the riffle, or the ammunition, and so on and so on There is no taking it back once you know; chances are he will not use half of it so he says but the mind is a powerful tool And it somehow doubles in power once he has left..

Living together or not, a common mistake we make as women is too cling, we want to hold on tight and keep our men safe - this is a huge mistake which leads to many a relationship breakdown, why?

Our natural reaction is to hold on, theres is to prepare for leaving - doesn't always happen but often they will begin to loose their temper a lot quicker than usual, they will be a certain sharpness in their tone - the more you hold on, the more he will push you away - hard as it is, do not take this personally, in his own way, he is preparing himself because he will miss you, odd psychology but it is what it is.

To combat this - excuse the pun - you need to prep your survival kit. My survival kit is a list of all the girlie things I like to do that, he will do with me cause he lurrrrves me, but absolutely hates doing. In other words, start planning how you will keep yourself busy - if nothing else, it will hopefully stop you from clinging! Fight the urge to protect him by clinging - it really isn't worth the fight that will take place Deployment survival kit - start making a list of things you can do, don't wait until he goes - your head won't be in the right frame of mind easier to follow an already written list than to try to think of something to do.

Posted by tough love at 8 comments: Email This BlogThis! Labels: British army girlfriend , Deployments. Tuesday, 5 June Lesson 1: Dating a soldier. What is it about a man in uniform that we women find so darn sexy?

I love it when my man turns up at my doorstep wearing his combats - jumping him is usually not far from my mind! But girls, trust me when I tell you that the uniform is the worst possible reason to date a soldier - you should be wanting to date the man and not the uniform!!

I can hear some of you thinking - What the heck? I would never do something like that And you are absolutely right, you wouldn't, but there are plenty of women who would and do.

British military values include: Selfless commitment, courage, loyalty and respect for others. About you. You will be on your own a lot. There are times he will be away on exercise or deployments. If you are the jealous type avoid army men like the plague. If there is one thing constantly available within a military relationship it is the opportunity to create scenarios of mistrust. I repeat, he will be away a lot!

If you can keep yourself level headed on the trust department, you just might make it work. Keep in mind that most soldiers will also have ample time and opportunity to wonder just what you are doing at home Is it worth it? I can only answer this question by asking you if you think love is worth it.