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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that resentful, anti military poster has rose colored glasses on what deployments actually do to a family.

Deployments are HARD, but often, the reunification is even harder and sometimes traumatic.  Parents don't return the same person who left, and sometimes that new parent is very disruptive or destructive to the family unit.

Kids spend the deployment trying to be the second "adult" in the house, particularly if they have younger siblings.  That carries a unique level of sacrifice for the country, particularly if the kid is trying to be "brave" through the deployment.

Deployment reunifications are not just uniformed parent jumping out of the float at the high school football game while everyone cheers and cries like you see on TV.  They are hard, and very disruptive to the family unit.

Also, military kids and families serve the country and military too.  That is drilled into families at every assignment.

Command spouses are actually sent to a week of training by the military, starting at squadron commander level, at least in the Air Force.  The military flies the spouses to a single base (probably done by zoom now) prior to the change of command, and spends a week training them on all of their unpaid duties and expectations as a command spouse.  I have done this twice.  The classes range from everything from helping other families navigate the military support systems to aiding young airman families to providing support for families of deployed members to the best practices of supporting squadron members families who just learned that their servicemember was killed or wounded in action.  Command spouses are trained on the mortuary system and the notification process.  They are told that everything they do and say reflects on the military and are expected to act accordingly.

All of this training makes it clear that spouses of active duty do indeed serve too.

Additionally, children of command families have a litany of events that they are strongly volun-told to attend throughout the assignments.  They are dressed up, paraded around, and expected to be on their best behavior, to provide the perception of a nice welcoming, family centered environment to help make junior service members feel more confortable when the young parents can't find or can't afford sitters and have to bring their kids along with them to various events.

These are all parts of family service in the military that those like the acronym poster might be completely unaware of.

The kids serve too. Anyone who says otherwise is grossly misinformed.[/quote]

Cry me a river. Military kids don't go hungry and have free health care. They are more privileged than most.[/quote]

Well their parents are deciding to work so, working means privilege?[/quote]

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