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OCS in a Nutshell
If you’re reading this you’re either: a) a girlfriend/boyfriend, fiancé, spouse or family member who’s significant other (or son/daughter) is interested in or is pursuing OCS *I’ll be referring to the military person in your life as ‘your person’ because it’s too difficult to try and say spouse, bf/gf, son/daughter and respect everyone’s differences while being inclusive b) one of the aforementioned people who’s been through it, but still loves a good OCS reminder c) someone just interested in reading about this wonderful military experience called OCS. For the newbies here, OCS stands for Officer Candidate School. This post will focus primarily on the United States Marine Corps OCS, but…
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Dog Fish
Back on the Our Military Journey (Thus Far) post I mentioned that I moved to Pensacola on December 30th, 2016. We wanted to start the new year fresh and fun, so we decided to throw a New Year’s Eve party. We woke up on NYE and made a plan for the day, which consisted mostly of going to various thrift stores to try and find dinner and coffee tables. As we sat on the couch eating breakfast, we watched the tail end of Oceans Eleven with Brad Pitt and George Clooney (this is an important detail). As we drove around, my husband would NOT stop talking about getting a dog. The topics of…
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Our Military Journey (Thus Far)
As I’ve mentioned in About Me, and The Wing It Life, my husband is in the United States Marine Corps. He’s a pilot and in the past year we’ve moved about 4 times. It’s been quite fun. Each time we’ve moved we’ve encountered a hurricane too, so that’s made it really interesting. I’ll talk more on that in a later post. When I met him he was just a guy with a dream of being a pilot and here we are some 5 years later and that dream has come true. I feel so lucky to have been part of his journey through it all. His USMC journey started in Harrisonburg, VA and…
