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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re a dual income family spouse is military and we pay everything in cash- brand new cars houses etc and it’s family money. [/quote]

The inside-the-beltway DCUM snobs can’t believe there is more than a smattering of family money in the military.  They fail to grasp the demographics of kids attending the service academies and of families with flag-rank officers in 2-3-4 generations.[/quote]

Yeah, great look when your flag officer look more like the British aristocracy than the young men and women they lead. [/quote]

Typical DCUM. What does this even mean^^^? My DH was an immigrant to this country and retired as an O-5 at 20 years. This meant nonstop moving for my family as I tried to balance a career in managing nonprofits.

It is incredibly difficult for traveling spouses to have successful careers and the ones that do, apparently are belittled on DCUM. Some how we aren’t deserving of financial success because “we” owe MORE than others think we deserve. I was luckily enough to work “remotely” before it was a right and tried to hirer other professional military spouses to pay forward my “leg up”. DH retired last year and I make more than his civilian salary, disability and retirement combined—working for nonprofits. How much does my family need to give to be deserving of “nice things.” We’ve given up our extended families, sacrificed untold amounts of weekends and holidays for service. Apparently we don’t deserve financial freedom.[/quote]

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