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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such an odd set of reactions!

I'm a military spouse, also of a military physician (who was prior service before med school, too). We're both lefty academics who had a gender-based Bernie/Hillary split in the praries.

Outside of military events where people wear uniforms, we just go as ourselves to events and social occasions. How would we even know someone else's rank out of uniform? There are tens of thousands of soldiers based here; we don't know most of them.

I find it hard to make friends period. I'm not a social butterfly type person. And when I know a move is a year or less away, I tend to give up. I don't blame other people for not wanting to invest a ton of time in us when they have preexisting local friends and family. I also anticipate my kids' heartache when we move, and it's hard to not try to keep them from getting too attached, too.[/quote]

If you've been in long enough, you know.  My husband usually knows.  If I see a doc, he'll ask me (I have no clue the ranks and he usually can guess right).[/quote]

Then you're better than eith of us. DH has been in since '99, and we've been married for 10 years. I still can't tell military from other people with short hair.[/quote]

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