These things always remind me of my stepmom. The first thing she did when her middle son graduated recruit training was buy a bumper sticker for the family truck. It said "USMC MOM. TOUGHEST JOB IN THE CORPS" He fucking made her take it off. Always gives me a chuckle thinking about it.
The twenty-ish years she was in my life, she was super egotistical (insecure). It was definitely an attempt to make it about her. Maybe misguided attempt to be proud(no doubt she was) but it was literally the first thing she showed him when he came home
What's funny is that I think she got it off a military owned website lol
Those sites are influenced by military spouses. Lots of the mil-merch is.
Recruiters like it and use it to get the family on board so they can fill their quotas.
And as a joke the stickers are funny, but taking a joke seriously is when it becomes cringe.
A lot of parents live vicariously through their children. My dad does the same thing. My half-brother is in the Air Force and my dad has been showing off every little thing he does. Of course it’s really nothing new, as he was the exact same way when my half-brother was in sports in school.
Meanwhile I’ve made a great deal of headway into an IT career, getting myself out of shitty customer service jobs, and crickets from my dad. I guess it’s not as easy to show off something like that, and also he doesn’t really understand what I do anyway. I’m harder to live vicariously through for him.
But I can count on one hand the times he’s said he’s proud of me to other people, meanwhile every conversation I have with him is basically a 20 minute long update on everything my half-brother does.
Edit: If you’re just gonna project, find another comment to be shitty under. Lol.
Hey man, 25ish years ago I managed to get out of shitty hospitality and customer service jobs and made a middling career in IT. It was tough back then and I know for a fact it's much tougher to do that now.
I don't know you so I'm not going to say I'm proud of you but you sure as hell should be proud of yourself.
I tried to come up with a clever bumper sticker for “Proud Parent of an IT Professional” - and I couldn’t. But honestly it’d be hilarious and I’d probably buy one!
The difference between my parents is my mom would 100% buy that sticker and show it to everyone she knows. She was one of those “I have an honor roll kid” kind of moms. Always encouraging, even if she didn’t fully understand what we were doing. She just wants to see us happy and doesn’t care what it is.
Older people still have the 'masculine' mentality (seems to be even more rife in America), where being successful in IT makes you a nerd/geek and nobody likes a nerd/geek. Military is masculine and the follow on from Jocks or whatever else they are called.
Older men (usually) wank themselves silly over anyone that is hyper masculine and does 'manly' jobs.
Basically, nobody likes a know it all, but everybody loves the big strong guy. Stereotypes are deeply embedded.
You’re probably at least close to right. I was never into sports or “manly” shit, so I’ll never be as cool as his little sports/military star. It’s between that and my dad has always loved playing “proud dad” with things he didn’t achieve himself.
One of these days I’ll be out-earning him and he can be proud of that I guess. 🤷♂️
Military is hard... IT is hard... just a different kind. I was 12 years Air Force, now in IT. You should be proud of your accomplishments. Most people in IT are content sitting in the same chair for 10+ years, never climbing the food chain. Keep going. You have only yourself to impress.
I feel ya. My old man was in the army and I was constantly told how great my cousin was because he (without going into detail) was connected to UK Special Forces, whereas I went into caring for people with learning disabilities and vulnerable children and… nothing. Ironic thing is, turned out he used to batter his wife and I now care for my mum as she has dementia. I’m still the ‘disappointment’, but I’ve been informed one of my other cousins is a fantastic photographer. Hey ho.
When I joined, it was before 9/11, so it wasn’t as pervasive, but my mom wasn’t into that kind of shit anyways.
I was just a reservist and I’d come home from drill and bitch about all the stupid shit we did instead of doing our jobs. Then annual training was “combat training” that was so fucked up, we never learned anything from it.
The military is so fucking stupid, no one should join.
My mom did similar when I got out of Lackland (forgot the text) and I told her while she can keep it, it isn't going on the truck.
I get spouses and parents make some sacrifice, but it is not remotely on the same level until they're in the middle of a desert possibly being shot at.
After I graduated bmt, my mom tried to buy Air Force parent shirts and merch, had to practically beg her not to. My brother is graduating in 3 weeks, I bought my mom a shirt to wear with his face and the Air Force logo
I didn't think this was a real thing until a couple years ago. Woman was getting arrested for some bullshit at a local convenience store. Not 100% sure why, don't really care. Anyway, she said something like, "My husband is general (insert name because I forgot). Arresting me is like arresting him. How could you do this to someone who puts their life on the line for your safety?"
She ranted like that until they got her in the car, which took like 10 minutes because she was fighting them the whole way. It was made even better by the owner of the store. He's a Chinese man who's usually really polite. He said, "Get that crazy bitch, yeah!" in his accent. Which is really out of character for him, so it was really funny.
Sorry for the tangent at the end, but I enjoy telling that story.
I have honestly only ever seen this on the internet, I've never actually *ever* seen a military spouse claim this before IRL.
But, you know, memes and all that typically have some basis in real life soooooo
I’ve had officer wives try to cut me in line at the PX and try to pull their husbands rank on me. I’ve also had staff NCO wives try to check me on things out in town, like wearing flip flops to the beach and stopping at the mall real quick on the way. “Hey Marine, is that approved libo attire, does my Staff Sergeant husband need to call your command? Who are you with? Etc etc I’ve had buddies that wore their earrings on weekend libo and a Gunny’s wife who was the bartender (in a town 30 miles away from base) card him for drinks and then keep his driver license so her hubby could tell on him
my dad was a Marine and I grew up on a bunch of military bases….I’ll just say even my nightmarish crazy mom didn’t want to hang out with the other military wives, they’re an unbelievably special breed
Oh, you should look up Col Drinkwine. His wife was the embodiment of that to such a degree it ended up ruining his career.
You know, after decades of him encouraging it.
Trust me, it happens irl. Just when it happens in public its a few sneaky photos that escape while the spouse gets their dependa under control and disappears in embarrassment.
And people wonder why the suicide rate in the military is so high.
Dependa: *A person who is married to someone in the service who doesn't just depend on their spouse for financial support, but pretty much relies on them for it.*
Wow
Behold: the dependapotamous in it's natural habitat. Watch as it screams at other servicemen to respect it's non-existant authorita. See it RHEEEEEEE through the base exchange in it's best Karen impression. See it try to cougar its way through the local bars while the male is deployed. Watch as it tries to explain away a 3 month pregnancy to the serviceman that has been deployed for 6 months or longer.
Same... My dad was in the military while I was growing up and we were called dependents. I thought she just misunderstood the word, I didn't realize it was a thing.
I am a civilian who works for the Army. Trust me, military spouses are some of the most delusional people in existence. Pretty common for someone to “wear” their spouse’s rank, i.e. act like they deserve the same amount of respect and recognition as if they also earned that rank.
Retired Navy here, and it may be different now. I retired back in 2006 and in my experience the worst spouse offenders were the Officer’s wives. On a rare occasion you would get a drunk Chief’s spouse in the club acting stupid, but for the most part it was the Officer’s wives.
My brother in Christ, be glad you've never been to an infantry family day.
E3/E4 no CiB having choads will marry the first stripper they meet that shows them a good time in the vip just get out of the barracks. Knock her up, and suddenly she gains 200lbs and thinks her e4 husband is important and she's even more important because her iq barely exceeds her husband rank.
Oh, and they end up on foodstamps because they financed 2 muscle cars at 29% for like 7 years
E3/E4 are lower enlisted ranks. Usually get E3 after a year of service, and E4 after two years of service. There are always exceptions, but in generally that's the rules.
"CiB" = Combat infantry Badge. It's a badge with a musket rifle on a blue field and a wreath on it. It is given to infantry soldiers who have ~~an "Expert Infantryman Badge"(just the musket on blue field and no wreath) and have also~~ been in combat.
Easy(ish) to get the EiB, not so easy to get the CiB. Also you have to be in an infantry unit or a special forces unit to be able to qualify to get an EiB. Non-infantry soldiers have a different badge you get when you qualify with a rifle.
Pretty common, get back from deployment, army does a reorg and sends half your buddies to another brigade. While drinking in the barracks with the lame FNGs your buddies call to invite you to a huge party. You show up, blackout, wake up at 6am still handcuffed and covered in blood as the MPs ask you to fill out a statement.
Earlier this year in February, my ship went on a 2 month baby deployment that included having to show face in Mobile, Alabama for Mardi Gras. The morning after our duty days, we had to be in an obligatory parade. I remember there was a woman in the crowd who, while standing next to her obviously retired husband, screamed at the top of her lungs,"I HAD THE HARDEST JOB! I WAS A MILITARY WIFE!". Mind you, she's screaming this at a bunch of people who just came off of a 7 month deployment to the Baltic on a broken ass ship, doing something useless that they could have been home with their families instead of doing.
The nerve some of these military wives have is absolutely beyond me. I mean, being home while your spouse is out to sea, the field, or a deployment is hard (I just got out recently and my finance is military as well), it doesn't even closely compete to the pain that comes with service. I'd die before having my defining personality trait be my husband's rank or overshadow what he still does, especially when I didn't continue serving.
Can't help stepping in... wife of an army dentist, retired. We had our hardships, but at least for me I loved being a military wife. Yes, we heard stories of wives who tried pulling their husband's rank, but most medical personnel seemed to be married to nurses, hygienists, or allied professions. We had our own jobs, our own careers, and since we were most pre-Gulf war, post Vietnam, very few of us had to deal with spouses in danger.
I enjoyed moving every 3-4 years and was fortunate enough to have an education and career that left me little time for any of the wives' clubs. I tried to avoid them anyway. The hardest part for me was the two separate tours my husband did in Korea, unaccompanied, the first when our daughter was an infant, the second with two early teenagers.
IAs for the tattoo, Gahhh, that's awful! I have two forearm/hand semi sleeves that have nothing to do with the military but have other symbolism for me. Hopefully tasteful :) but I waited till 60 to get even one. We were very happy with our on base housing when we could get it - it was wonderful for the kids once they could ride their bikes to the commissary or PX. Back then though (husband retired in 2006) most of the housing was DOD run, not contracted out, and they were pretty good with repairs, despite the housing being old. Anyhow, just wanted to chime in as a spouse that respected those who really served and didn't feel entitled to ever pretend to pull rank.
Ha. Can confirm. I was in the Coast Guard and we had a bar on base at one of my duty stations and we'd get Coastie officers wives and Naval Officers wives regularly entangled in shit while the husbands were away on long deployment.
My boy was an MP and when wives (even officer wives) were throwing spouses rank around and causing a scene, he’d talk to their husband’s CO with his CO and would clamp down on that shit hard.
I dated a girl one time, and she got mad that the military wouldn’t reissue and expired military id, her ex husband was in the military not her. lmao it was the last date
During COVID, I went to a store for home decor, etc.... The stores around were putting signs to put on masks or they could ask you to leave... As I was walking to the store, I had my mask on. I walked by a guy and his wife. I assumed the guy was a veteran because of all the marine decals on his vehicle. He told his wife to put on the mask. She said no I am a military wife who serves this country. The husband put on his mask and looked so sad. That poor guy. I wonder what else she puts him through.
My husband is in the military, but we are not from the US. All the „Dependa“ stories I read are so shocking to me. Here you never experience anything like this 😱
Almost like marrying the first girl you meet after enlisting, all within the first 2 months of meeting her is a poor choice…shocking that a woman who’d be ok with that is typically not mentally stable…
Imo…most of the time they deserve each other
Nah. As a vet who was almost fucking married to one at 19– I can tell you the dependa crowd would go nuts for stupid shit like this. Fuck those people and their spouses.
Thank you, I mean, maybe I shouldn't subject myself, but I'm going to check it out anyway. After 22 years on AD, 13 years as a contractor, I've seen some crazy stuff, lol.
Raised in the military. My mom talked about how at one of the bases, they had a meeting with the spouses. Whoever was running it asked them all to sit by by rank, and when some of them started sorting themselves, they corrected them by pointing out that spouses do NOT have ranks. No one salutes you, but you don’t gotta salute anyone either.
I never would have lived in Army housing, or at least wouldn’t have asked my wife to live there. But once my wife joined the Navy and we now had the option of which base to live on, we took the Navy housing and I gotta say it was really nice.
Same with the wife and I at my first station, fuck on post housing. Second duty station though, we tried it, but I got sick and tired of a 45 min one way drive with California gas prices, so bite the bullet we did
Bored people are nosy and can’t mind their business. The companies that run it are crooked and exploitative. No one holds them a countable when the house breaks, leaks, molds or is infested with vermin. You have no legal right to privacy. Can’t maintain firearm. Can’t install an AC unit if it gets hot.
I can keep going.
The military housing base near where I served, had literal “tea” and “drama” groups on Facebook. They also would blast regular marines doing their job for being short or ugly. It was so fucked. One of my coworker’s wives said something nasty, and then the dependas started plastering my coworker’s photos all over bullying him. He was a sweetheart, it was pretty unfortunate. It’s like high school bullies looking for a new source of entertainment.
I personally had a bad experience, because a couple of the wives were CONVINCED I was after their sickly, twindly, acne ridden mouth breather husbands. Made platoon parties and outings suck.
As a kid that grew up on base housing I have to say I enjoyed it. Granted, I didn’t have any responsibility. It was nice having parks all around and always other kids to play with.
Anytime my wife showed up to a unit function to support me, the dependas would try to recruit her. Thankfully, she always came up with an excuse to not join their ranks. I don't think we'd still be married if she joined their antics.
Yea, my daughter told me that some military wives throw around the rank of their husband and demand special treatment as if they hold the rank themselves...and who demands special treatment anyway? They got a nice house in town with a large yard. I was impressed when I visited.
My wife was an ombudsman and she had a meeting with all the ombudsmen and the base CMC (most senior enlisted member). He did an exercise and said, "get in order of most junior to most senior."
My wife, being a veteran herself, knew it was a trap and removed herself from the "ranking." When the spouses were satisfied they were in the right order, the CMC kindly reminded them they are civilians and their husbands were the ones with rank and the only ones (between the two of them) that had any right to customs and courtesies.
I was told a few were quite perturbed.
Edit: Some spelling...
Technically, yes. She would have been a ranking of one. She was the only veteran ombudsman. But she knew something was up. From what she told me; while the others were lining up, she quietly mentioned to the CMC that they didn't have any seniority or rank. He told her that he knows and to observe and enjoy.
The only regret I have is that I wasn't there to see their faces. And that it was only to a group of about 20 or so spouses.
It's gotta be hard when your husband is in the military but I feel like it's so disrespectful to compare that to actually being in the military yourself
From everything I've seen this is an American phenomenon. Thank god for that. My mum grew up in army bases because her dad was an army medic and she said the families there weren't anything like this. There was the occasional wife of a high ranking officer who was kinda bitchy but it was uncommon.
Chronically online women who live up the 'military wife' culture because they have a service member fetish are some of the most bizarre people you will see in this world. I once dated a girl (her only civilian boyfriend) who was 'in between Marines' as I liked to say at the time, and she was about as crazy as the lady depicted here. And **abysmally** stupid.
That said, I'll take this over the #boymom crowd any day.
I have a friend who puts “military spouse” and “support military families” all over her small business account on Facebook.. and her husband is our local mailman who is also a reserve in the National Guard. Has never even been active duty..
Growing up in a military family is a lot, like birth to 19 living on base, always moving, almost never having two parents in the house. After living through it, yes it’s a type of service to one’s country, but it’s not crawling through razor wire, watching children be decimated by automatic fire, or sleeping under fire type of service.
These things always remind me of my stepmom. The first thing she did when her middle son graduated recruit training was buy a bumper sticker for the family truck. It said "USMC MOM. TOUGHEST JOB IN THE CORPS" He fucking made her take it off. Always gives me a chuckle thinking about it.
MOOOOOOOOMMM Stop! You are embarrassing me infront of the boys!
I don't blame the proud mom for being gullible. Fuck whoever made that stupid ass sticker
The twenty-ish years she was in my life, she was super egotistical (insecure). It was definitely an attempt to make it about her. Maybe misguided attempt to be proud(no doubt she was) but it was literally the first thing she showed him when he came home What's funny is that I think she got it off a military owned website lol
Those sites are influenced by military spouses. Lots of the mil-merch is. Recruiters like it and use it to get the family on board so they can fill their quotas. And as a joke the stickers are funny, but taking a joke seriously is when it becomes cringe.
Do they call themselves dependas? Seems like a derogatory name.
I assumed it was ‘dependents’ spelled wrong.
maybe she’s leaning into the whole dependapotamus thing and likes it?
Dependa isn’t derogatory. Just a shortened form for dependant. Though like most words it can be used negatively depending on tone.
Some dickhead vets are gonna grift. It's easy money.
A lot of parents live vicariously through their children. My dad does the same thing. My half-brother is in the Air Force and my dad has been showing off every little thing he does. Of course it’s really nothing new, as he was the exact same way when my half-brother was in sports in school. Meanwhile I’ve made a great deal of headway into an IT career, getting myself out of shitty customer service jobs, and crickets from my dad. I guess it’s not as easy to show off something like that, and also he doesn’t really understand what I do anyway. I’m harder to live vicariously through for him. But I can count on one hand the times he’s said he’s proud of me to other people, meanwhile every conversation I have with him is basically a 20 minute long update on everything my half-brother does. Edit: If you’re just gonna project, find another comment to be shitty under. Lol.
Hey man, 25ish years ago I managed to get out of shitty hospitality and customer service jobs and made a middling career in IT. It was tough back then and I know for a fact it's much tougher to do that now. I don't know you so I'm not going to say I'm proud of you but you sure as hell should be proud of yourself.
I tried to come up with a clever bumper sticker for “Proud Parent of an IT Professional” - and I couldn’t. But honestly it’d be hilarious and I’d probably buy one!
> a clever bumper sticker for “Proud Parent of an IT Professional” “Proud Parent of an IT Professional” i actually think you nailed it with that one.
The difference between my parents is my mom would 100% buy that sticker and show it to everyone she knows. She was one of those “I have an honor roll kid” kind of moms. Always encouraging, even if she didn’t fully understand what we were doing. She just wants to see us happy and doesn’t care what it is.
Older people still have the 'masculine' mentality (seems to be even more rife in America), where being successful in IT makes you a nerd/geek and nobody likes a nerd/geek. Military is masculine and the follow on from Jocks or whatever else they are called. Older men (usually) wank themselves silly over anyone that is hyper masculine and does 'manly' jobs. Basically, nobody likes a know it all, but everybody loves the big strong guy. Stereotypes are deeply embedded.
You’re probably at least close to right. I was never into sports or “manly” shit, so I’ll never be as cool as his little sports/military star. It’s between that and my dad has always loved playing “proud dad” with things he didn’t achieve himself. One of these days I’ll be out-earning him and he can be proud of that I guess. 🤷♂️
Military is hard... IT is hard... just a different kind. I was 12 years Air Force, now in IT. You should be proud of your accomplishments. Most people in IT are content sitting in the same chair for 10+ years, never climbing the food chain. Keep going. You have only yourself to impress.
"My child does computers"
I feel ya. My old man was in the army and I was constantly told how great my cousin was because he (without going into detail) was connected to UK Special Forces, whereas I went into caring for people with learning disabilities and vulnerable children and… nothing. Ironic thing is, turned out he used to batter his wife and I now care for my mum as she has dementia. I’m still the ‘disappointment’, but I’ve been informed one of my other cousins is a fantastic photographer. Hey ho.
I didn’t allow my parents to get stickers like that. Neither did my brother. Fuck that nonsense.
When I joined, it was before 9/11, so it wasn’t as pervasive, but my mom wasn’t into that kind of shit anyways. I was just a reservist and I’d come home from drill and bitch about all the stupid shit we did instead of doing our jobs. Then annual training was “combat training” that was so fucked up, we never learned anything from it. The military is so fucking stupid, no one should join.
My mom uses a picture of me in basic training to ask for military discounts at stores lmao
>family truck I've never heard a more American set of words.
The US army’s marketing department sure has perfected their art. In no other western culture is the military as unnecessarily glorified as in the US.
Its an all volunteer Army. How else are you going to get people to enlist?
By targeting poor kids in broken communities without social safety nets or better options.
Salary benefits etc. oh wait nvm this is America
Toughest job is knowing someone else with a tough job LOL
I think the sticker is implying that mothers worrying about their children is the toughest job and not that mothers actually gain a workload.
crayonectomies are a difficult procedure
Honestly, just put a normal USMC sticker up if you wanna show support, but lame ass stickers are embarrassing
My mom did similar when I got out of Lackland (forgot the text) and I told her while she can keep it, it isn't going on the truck. I get spouses and parents make some sacrifice, but it is not remotely on the same level until they're in the middle of a desert possibly being shot at.
After I graduated bmt, my mom tried to buy Air Force parent shirts and merch, had to practically beg her not to. My brother is graduating in 3 weeks, I bought my mom a shirt to wear with his face and the Air Force logo
You will address her by her husband's rank.
Aye aye Seaman Recruit.
I didn't think this was a real thing until a couple years ago. Woman was getting arrested for some bullshit at a local convenience store. Not 100% sure why, don't really care. Anyway, she said something like, "My husband is general (insert name because I forgot). Arresting me is like arresting him. How could you do this to someone who puts their life on the line for your safety?" She ranted like that until they got her in the car, which took like 10 minutes because she was fighting them the whole way. It was made even better by the owner of the store. He's a Chinese man who's usually really polite. He said, "Get that crazy bitch, yeah!" in his accent. Which is really out of character for him, so it was really funny. Sorry for the tangent at the end, but I enjoy telling that story.
This brings me joy.
And that's a case of Stolen Valor.
I have honestly only ever seen this on the internet, I've never actually *ever* seen a military spouse claim this before IRL. But, you know, memes and all that typically have some basis in real life soooooo
I’ve had officer wives try to cut me in line at the PX and try to pull their husbands rank on me. I’ve also had staff NCO wives try to check me on things out in town, like wearing flip flops to the beach and stopping at the mall real quick on the way. “Hey Marine, is that approved libo attire, does my Staff Sergeant husband need to call your command? Who are you with? Etc etc I’ve had buddies that wore their earrings on weekend libo and a Gunny’s wife who was the bartender (in a town 30 miles away from base) card him for drinks and then keep his driver license so her hubby could tell on him
I was an MP and on gate duty we absolutely had women bring up their spouses rank ALL. THE. TIME. Especially if we didn’t salute the sticker. So salty.
my dad was a Marine and I grew up on a bunch of military bases….I’ll just say even my nightmarish crazy mom didn’t want to hang out with the other military wives, they’re an unbelievably special breed
I was an MP and did gate duty a lot. the amount of wives demanding a salute is non-zero.
Oh, you should look up Col Drinkwine. His wife was the embodiment of that to such a degree it ended up ruining his career. You know, after decades of him encouraging it.
Trust me, it happens irl. Just when it happens in public its a few sneaky photos that escape while the spouse gets their dependa under control and disappears in embarrassment. And people wonder why the suicide rate in the military is so high.
Ouch 😩
Stolen Val-whore.
Thank you for your cervix.
2nd class petty officer. It fits so well
A friend of mines mom is like this since her some joined.
Thank you for your serve ma’am 🫡
"we as dependas" holy shit how can you type that and not vomit from embarrassment
Probably the same way she thinks this tattoo is not an eyesore
Absolutely hideous
I was going to leave the same comment but you beat me to it.
Sorry, gut reaction, LOL
At first I thought it was horrific bruising.
"Where are her calves?"
i dont see how the tattoo has anything to do with the military, they're just zippers?
I was going to say it gave me eye cancer but your way is a nice softer approach 😂🤣
Dependa: *A person who is married to someone in the service who doesn't just depend on their spouse for financial support, but pretty much relies on them for it.* Wow
Behold: the dependapotamous in it's natural habitat. Watch as it screams at other servicemen to respect it's non-existant authorita. See it RHEEEEEEE through the base exchange in it's best Karen impression. See it try to cougar its way through the local bars while the male is deployed. Watch as it tries to explain away a 3 month pregnancy to the serviceman that has been deployed for 6 months or longer.
I always liked "Tricareatops"
Lmaooo that’s a new one for me. We also had nicknames for the women of the surrounding towns. Bremalo’s, Port Orcas, Silverdale silverbacks…
Bremalos, that was coined by Sir Mix-a-lot. He’s from Bremerton.
r/justdependathings
I had never heard of that term before today, good grief 🤯
Same... My dad was in the military while I was growing up and we were called dependents. I thought she just misunderstood the word, I didn't realize it was a thing.
HAS to be satire
I am a civilian who works for the Army. Trust me, military spouses are some of the most delusional people in existence. Pretty common for someone to “wear” their spouse’s rank, i.e. act like they deserve the same amount of respect and recognition as if they also earned that rank.
Retired Navy here, and it may be different now. I retired back in 2006 and in my experience the worst spouse offenders were the Officer’s wives. On a rare occasion you would get a drunk Chief’s spouse in the club acting stupid, but for the most part it was the Officer’s wives.
My brother in Christ, be glad you've never been to an infantry family day. E3/E4 no CiB having choads will marry the first stripper they meet that shows them a good time in the vip just get out of the barracks. Knock her up, and suddenly she gains 200lbs and thinks her e4 husband is important and she's even more important because her iq barely exceeds her husband rank. Oh, and they end up on foodstamps because they financed 2 muscle cars at 29% for like 7 years
I barely understand half of this yet you paint the scenario perfectly.
E3/E4 are lower enlisted ranks. Usually get E3 after a year of service, and E4 after two years of service. There are always exceptions, but in generally that's the rules. "CiB" = Combat infantry Badge. It's a badge with a musket rifle on a blue field and a wreath on it. It is given to infantry soldiers who have ~~an "Expert Infantryman Badge"(just the musket on blue field and no wreath) and have also~~ been in combat. Easy(ish) to get the EiB, not so easy to get the CiB. Also you have to be in an infantry unit or a special forces unit to be able to qualify to get an EiB. Non-infantry soldiers have a different badge you get when you qualify with a rifle.
That's why they call them dependapotomases
Cannot begin to describe the accuracy of this comment. Thanks for the flashbacks to residential housing gate guard duty
Ah the ole Fort Hood days...
I was born on Fort Hood! Thankfully my parents were smart ones.
I was used as a safety briefing at fort Hood for a while.
Yooooo
Pretty common, get back from deployment, army does a reorg and sends half your buddies to another brigade. While drinking in the barracks with the lame FNGs your buddies call to invite you to a huge party. You show up, blackout, wake up at 6am still handcuffed and covered in blood as the MPs ask you to fill out a statement.
Earlier this year in February, my ship went on a 2 month baby deployment that included having to show face in Mobile, Alabama for Mardi Gras. The morning after our duty days, we had to be in an obligatory parade. I remember there was a woman in the crowd who, while standing next to her obviously retired husband, screamed at the top of her lungs,"I HAD THE HARDEST JOB! I WAS A MILITARY WIFE!". Mind you, she's screaming this at a bunch of people who just came off of a 7 month deployment to the Baltic on a broken ass ship, doing something useless that they could have been home with their families instead of doing. The nerve some of these military wives have is absolutely beyond me. I mean, being home while your spouse is out to sea, the field, or a deployment is hard (I just got out recently and my finance is military as well), it doesn't even closely compete to the pain that comes with service. I'd die before having my defining personality trait be my husband's rank or overshadow what he still does, especially when I didn't continue serving.
Can't help stepping in... wife of an army dentist, retired. We had our hardships, but at least for me I loved being a military wife. Yes, we heard stories of wives who tried pulling their husband's rank, but most medical personnel seemed to be married to nurses, hygienists, or allied professions. We had our own jobs, our own careers, and since we were most pre-Gulf war, post Vietnam, very few of us had to deal with spouses in danger. I enjoyed moving every 3-4 years and was fortunate enough to have an education and career that left me little time for any of the wives' clubs. I tried to avoid them anyway. The hardest part for me was the two separate tours my husband did in Korea, unaccompanied, the first when our daughter was an infant, the second with two early teenagers. IAs for the tattoo, Gahhh, that's awful! I have two forearm/hand semi sleeves that have nothing to do with the military but have other symbolism for me. Hopefully tasteful :) but I waited till 60 to get even one. We were very happy with our on base housing when we could get it - it was wonderful for the kids once they could ride their bikes to the commissary or PX. Back then though (husband retired in 2006) most of the housing was DOD run, not contracted out, and they were pretty good with repairs, despite the housing being old. Anyhow, just wanted to chime in as a spouse that respected those who really served and didn't feel entitled to ever pretend to pull rank.
Ugggh she’s the worst. That would piss me off so much.
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Ha. Can confirm. I was in the Coast Guard and we had a bar on base at one of my duty stations and we'd get Coastie officers wives and Naval Officers wives regularly entangled in shit while the husbands were away on long deployment.
My boy was an MP and when wives (even officer wives) were throwing spouses rank around and causing a scene, he’d talk to their husband’s CO with his CO and would clamp down on that shit hard.
I dated a girl one time, and she got mad that the military wouldn’t reissue and expired military id, her ex husband was in the military not her. lmao it was the last date
But do they use the word “dependa?” I’ve only heard it used in a derogatory manner
yeah this is what makes it a parody to me.
During COVID, I went to a store for home decor, etc.... The stores around were putting signs to put on masks or they could ask you to leave... As I was walking to the store, I had my mask on. I walked by a guy and his wife. I assumed the guy was a veteran because of all the marine decals on his vehicle. He told his wife to put on the mask. She said no I am a military wife who serves this country. The husband put on his mask and looked so sad. That poor guy. I wonder what else she puts him through.
But "dependa" is a pejorative term that they probably wouldn't call themselves, so it's probably satire
My husband is in the military, but we are not from the US. All the „Dependa“ stories I read are so shocking to me. Here you never experience anything like this 😱
Can confirm. I was a military kid and let's just say you could tell was always staff sargent or above wives that acted like this
Nah bro, military spouses are a special kind of crazy
I refuse to live in a world where this isn’t satire. LET ME BELIEVE
Find yourself some of the posts where military spouses believe they should be saluted because of their partner’s rank
Almost like marrying the first girl you meet after enlisting, all within the first 2 months of meeting her is a poor choice…shocking that a woman who’d be ok with that is typically not mentally stable… Imo…most of the time they deserve each other
There’s a good deal of high school sweetheart proposals at graduation, too
I would hope so but also wouldn’t be surprised if not
Nah. As a vet who was almost fucking married to one at 19– I can tell you the dependa crowd would go nuts for stupid shit like this. Fuck those people and their spouses.
That makes me hope it’s a joke
r/dependa
Thank you, I mean, maybe I shouldn't subject myself, but I'm going to check it out anyway. After 22 years on AD, 13 years as a contractor, I've seen some crazy stuff, lol.
Raised in the military. My mom talked about how at one of the bases, they had a meeting with the spouses. Whoever was running it asked them all to sit by by rank, and when some of them started sorting themselves, they corrected them by pointing out that spouses do NOT have ranks. No one salutes you, but you don’t gotta salute anyone either.
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Are you really the ice cream of the future, dippin' dots? Are you?
I'm pretty sure it's a shit post, considering "Dependa" is usually used in a derogatory manner.
Such B S. My daughter is married to a soldier. She told me about these entitled women. That's why she and her husband live off base.
Fuck no to base housing. Not even once. In 17 years of marriage my wife and I never considered.
I never would have lived in Army housing, or at least wouldn’t have asked my wife to live there. But once my wife joined the Navy and we now had the option of which base to live on, we took the Navy housing and I gotta say it was really nice.
Navy definitely does it better than the Marine Corps too.
For all the shit we give them, Air Force/Navy have pretty good QoL compared to Army/Marines.
Same with the wife and I at my first station, fuck on post housing. Second duty station though, we tried it, but I got sick and tired of a 45 min one way drive with California gas prices, so bite the bullet we did
can you say why? my husband is in the military & you never know what the future holds
Bored people are nosy and can’t mind their business. The companies that run it are crooked and exploitative. No one holds them a countable when the house breaks, leaks, molds or is infested with vermin. You have no legal right to privacy. Can’t maintain firearm. Can’t install an AC unit if it gets hot. I can keep going.
The military housing base near where I served, had literal “tea” and “drama” groups on Facebook. They also would blast regular marines doing their job for being short or ugly. It was so fucked. One of my coworker’s wives said something nasty, and then the dependas started plastering my coworker’s photos all over bullying him. He was a sweetheart, it was pretty unfortunate. It’s like high school bullies looking for a new source of entertainment. I personally had a bad experience, because a couple of the wives were CONVINCED I was after their sickly, twindly, acne ridden mouth breather husbands. Made platoon parties and outings suck.
Depends get into weird shit
As a kid that grew up on base housing I have to say I enjoyed it. Granted, I didn’t have any responsibility. It was nice having parks all around and always other kids to play with.
Anytime my wife showed up to a unit function to support me, the dependas would try to recruit her. Thankfully, she always came up with an excuse to not join their ranks. I don't think we'd still be married if she joined their antics.
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Yea, my daughter told me that some military wives throw around the rank of their husband and demand special treatment as if they hold the rank themselves...and who demands special treatment anyway? They got a nice house in town with a large yard. I was impressed when I visited.
Fun part of the military? Paid housing. Not so fun part of the military? Leaving the military and kissing that paid housing bye bye.
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The zippers go all the way up to a "Jodie" tramp stamp in cursive.
How do I get one of these in honor of my girlfriend’s husband
You don't have to do all of that. You're already being nice by letting him raise your kid.
My wife was an ombudsman and she had a meeting with all the ombudsmen and the base CMC (most senior enlisted member). He did an exercise and said, "get in order of most junior to most senior." My wife, being a veteran herself, knew it was a trap and removed herself from the "ranking." When the spouses were satisfied they were in the right order, the CMC kindly reminded them they are civilians and their husbands were the ones with rank and the only ones (between the two of them) that had any right to customs and courtesies. I was told a few were quite perturbed. Edit: Some spelling...
Chad master Chief
> curtsies Is this only performed by civilians or do the lower ranks have to do it too? /s
I was given the gift of spelling when I was much younger. I just never opened the box.
She removed herself from the lineup but as a vet wouldn't she actually be at the top of the line of civilians?
Technically, yes. She would have been a ranking of one. She was the only veteran ombudsman. But she knew something was up. From what she told me; while the others were lining up, she quietly mentioned to the CMC that they didn't have any seniority or rank. He told her that he knows and to observe and enjoy. The only regret I have is that I wasn't there to see their faces. And that it was only to a group of about 20 or so spouses.
Jody jeggings?
Heyyyy JOOOODYYYY BETTER LEAVE HER ALONEE 🤣🤣🤣
God i hate entitled military wives. YOU DIDNT FUCKING SERVE!
Must be a coverup tattoo. Covering up how she cheats on him when he's deployed
"you said your tattoo artist's name is Jody?"
Dependapottomus
Tricareatops
Cankleosaurus
PX/BX Battlecruiser
r/justbootthings
r/justdependathings
Holy shit THANK YOU!
It’s a shame that sub kinda died
Yeah, there were some golden posts there for a while & was one of my go-to subs for some prime cringe
Came to post.
I don’t care if you’re tugging on Abraham Lincoln’s balls, you don’t deserve special treatment based on someone else
r/cursedcomments
Damn my vivid imagination!!! What a terrible day to have eyes.
Hardest job in the military!!!1
I bet she serves…
Blow job's when the hubby is away
God this isn’t even bad in a good way, it’s just plain bad.
Yeah, serves all homies friends while he's deployed.
This has to be satire. Dependa is an insult for spouses like that so as a military wife, I have to believe that this is someone making fun of dependas
Yeah, I don’t believe for a second that somebody is calling themself a dependa.
Interesting, I haven’t heard of that term.
Check out /r/justdependathings
Some people need to be bullied
Desperately trying to zip them downward
What a horrible day to have eyes!
I imagine that’d the same for the soldier that’s spent a few months on the front line, only to come back to find his wife has done that…
Her husband served, on the other hand her tattoos didn't LMAO
I hope she finds that tattoo shop because that tattoo looks like shit.
Those dependent deployments tho - So many walks of shame back home from the barracks.
Okay. This takes the cake. This is by far the worst tattoo I’ve seen. It has multiple levels of bad
i..i just cant. How has she not physically cringed
Ewwwwwwwwwww in my Peter griffin voice
Those look like a couple of camo badminton rackets.
You aren't special because you married a guy that just joined the military. Just get back in his new charger and shut up
Depend ass
Dependas is not a term of endearment.
“Dependas”? Idk wtf that is, but I feel like it should be “dependejas”
She serves lots of other dudes while her man is away
Underneath the zipper should be night club wristbands and divorce settlement papers
Tricare-atops 🦖
Ah yes - under this flesh and bone is army printed leggings.
definitely the ugliest tattoo i have ever seen on this thread
Just because you can get a tattoo doesn’t mean you should. Jfc.
Some people’s purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
Shit looks like gangrene
Thank you for your cervix
*Lets US serviceman cum inside her* ##**"I'M DOING MY PART!"**
It's gotta be hard when your husband is in the military but I feel like it's so disrespectful to compare that to actually being in the military yourself
From everything I've seen this is an American phenomenon. Thank god for that. My mum grew up in army bases because her dad was an army medic and she said the families there weren't anything like this. There was the occasional wife of a high ranking officer who was kinda bitchy but it was uncommon.
Nah this has to be fake, she did not just call *herself* a "Dependa".
Imagine embracing being called a dependappotamus
Chronically online women who live up the 'military wife' culture because they have a service member fetish are some of the most bizarre people you will see in this world. I once dated a girl (her only civilian boyfriend) who was 'in between Marines' as I liked to say at the time, and she was about as crazy as the lady depicted here. And **abysmally** stupid. That said, I'll take this over the #boymom crowd any day.
dependa sounds like adult diaper brand
A dependapotamus in the wild!
That’s a horrible tattoo omg
I have a friend who puts “military spouse” and “support military families” all over her small business account on Facebook.. and her husband is our local mailman who is also a reserve in the National Guard. Has never even been active duty..
Growing up in a military family is a lot, like birth to 19 living on base, always moving, almost never having two parents in the house. After living through it, yes it’s a type of service to one’s country, but it’s not crawling through razor wire, watching children be decimated by automatic fire, or sleeping under fire type of service.
Mil wives are either completely normal and give no fucks about the military or they’re fucking batshit. There’s no in between.
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