Why do spouses insist on wearing uniform items that they didn't earn? Better yet, why are the military members letting them?

I will say this that my wife has worn my blues blouse a couple of times before when we lived in NC. However, I was not a dumb idiot about it and took pictures and posted them on the internet. PERIOD!!!!!

The gf are the worst. My goodness

Why would it bother you!!!

I feel as long as no uniform is or has unit insignia, rank, name, any affiliation I'm ok with it. I have an army green fleece jacket and if my wife wore it I would be ok since there is nothing on it.

It don't matter to me if spouses wear the "I was there T-shirts or the uniform parts. I agree with a few people who posted here. It is when spouses think they are the rank of their other half. I had a wife of a commander's wife tell me I needed to stand at a attention when I spoke to her. In fact its attitudes like that, the Family Readiness Groups are failing.

I find it pretty hilarious, how defensive some people are getting over this! It seems to me that the majority of the defensive comments are coming from the husbands of the same types of spouses you are talking about lol! I really hope you aren't taking these personally because you and I know first hand that these types of women usually act this way when their husbands aren't around to see their despicable behavior, making their comments null and void anyway lol. No they didn't sign up for this? Sorry but they did when they chose to marry a Soldier! If anything the children are the ones who "serve", they are the only ones that didn't choose this life!

When I was still in I had spouses come in to my dfac attempting to throw around their spouses rank. THAT drove me bonkers. wearing the uniform and parading around like you're something special is another bs move. I'm assuming the flag thing is them trying to be Betty page or some other pinup, I can see if its just for your spouse but on fb thinking you're going to cause a stir...please get over yourself. That whole I serve too crap reminds me of the we are pregnant crap, unless you have a fetus in both of you, no. Same for the I serve too crap.

For one, your a reserve Marine Spouse, try waking a day in an active duty Marine spouse's shoes. For two, how about you hold everything together, run a household with kids and no help from the service member who is deployed and then be told you don't do anything to benefit or support the service member. A spouse who wears her husband's rank, blouse, uniform is showing pride in what he does, who cares if you don't like it. You obviously have too much time between your one weekend a month and your 2 weeks a year to worry about what the rest of us do with our spouses. My wife hasn't put on a single thread of my uniforms and she uses my rank which she supported me to get, to help the junior spouses and help in family readiness. I'm proud to see my wife sport unit logos that I being to, it let's me know the most important person in my life had my back, and if she wants to put on my blouse then so be it.

As a prior service member who is married to an active duty member, I just don't get the whole thing of wearing SMs uniforms. Not at all. I don't even wear any of MY old Army uniforms.

You don't see spouses of UPS, FEDEX, McDonald's, Police Officers, Firemen, EMTs, ect wearing their uniforms to the commissary, grocery store, Wally World, etc, but tons of military spouses wearing their soldiers uniforms, and I don't mean the Exchange ones, but actually issued ones. *SMH*

I disagree whole heartedly with some of this post. The uniform portion I got, my wife doesn't wear uniformed items, so no issue with that. She wanted an ACU purse, I advised her not to simply because of the ridicule she'll receive for something as innocent as wanting to support what I do. In my opinion Wives and families serve too, you even said so in your original post, "running the home". It's all about support. Wives and families face hardships during deployments, late work nights, training exercises, you name it. It maybe different types of hardships, but hardships still nonetheless. If you're used to living a two parent lifestyle then one deploys, what was accomplished by two is now being accomplished by one. That in itself places strain and stress on our wives and husbands that those outside of the military rarely have to deal with. No, my wife isn't in the military, but to down play her role in supporting what I do, won't fly with me. I wouldn't be able to focus on my job without knowing she has everything in control at home. And if you think about all that goes into ensuring the home and my kids are taken care of, it's a physical and psychological toll that many don't respect, recognize, and not at all understand, (especially by some of the comments I've seen on this page). Think what you want, my wife serves by supporting me and ensuring that I have nothing to worry about when I'm not there. That, to me is vital and invaluable.