"As a spouse, you serve too" - USAA commercial

"My husband is a Gunny!!"

Well, your dependapotamus arse doesn't have any rank so frick off

Jody won’t take her to chili’s

Have a heart baw

The husband needs to be thanking her for hanging back and handling the house / kids. But I reject the notion that the rest of us somehow owe her anything. I got news, they chose that life and they can deal with it. When there is a draft and it isn’t a choice, get back to me.

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"As a spouse, you serve too" - USAA commercial
This shite needs to stop

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Fricking relax dude.

It's a testament to the fact that spouses may have to go long periods of time without seeing their loved ones, and being left by themselves to take care of the kids, etc. back home.

My pops was basically the equivalent of the doctors in M.A.S.H. at Camp Pendleton for a year or two, so I served, too! And get the sweet USAA coverage like 40 years later.

In a way it's correct. All family members do "sacrifice" some.

Speaking of usaa, this family just annoys the shite out of me

I've only noticed this in one USAA commercial (not sure if there are multiple variations) but didn't have a problem with the way it was presented.

This is probably a horrible analogy since I've never served in the military but it can be harder to watch your kids in a stressful situation than to be in it yourself. I'm sure that the stress of a military spouse not knowing what's going on with their husband on the other side of the globe is very difficult.

I've served for 22+ years in the USNR and have come to believe that many of today's veterans/actives/reservists are some of the biggest attention whores ever. Sixteen million (mostly)men served during WW2 and, for the most part, you would have never known except, perhaps, for their age. Many of the men I grew up around were WW2 vets, yet they rarely mentioned their service.