Posted on Jul 21, 2017
Military officer's wife attempts to use husband's rank, gets put in place
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I love this crap... Wives who try to wear there husbands rank. What I love about is putting them in there place.. 1. You do not have rank, your spouse does. 2. I don't really give a crap if your so and so's (rank) wife.
Have personal experience with this:
1989- hubby E-3 at the time, me 5 months pregnant with twins and a toddler under the age of two sitting in the cart.. Since I was having issues with stuff at the commissary, like bending over and heavy items, we went right after he got out of work to get some groceries we needed. He of course was still in BDUs. We got all our stuff and we are standing in line, I am exhausted by then so I am facing the cart and kind leaning on it waiting. My husband while waiting was behind me.. There was one person before us still emptying there cart, when this woman walks up to my husband, sees his rank and tells him he needs to move that she is Col. So and So's wife.. He said Ma'am??? She repeated herself, I heard it the second time and turned around, I said did you just tell my husband we need to move for you to go before us because your Col. So and So's wife.. She said yes, she didn't look down yet. I said first of all I don't care if your the post Generals wife, I am not moving out of my place in line, you need to find a new line or wait your turn. She said you can't talk to me like that I can have your husbands rank.. I said lady, with all do respect YOU DO NOT HAVE RANK. YOUR HUSBAND DOES! I will take this to IG and report you for impersonating an officer, threatening a soldier and his pregnant wife and child. So I suggest you find another line. Civilians do NOT have line priority only Active Duty do during lunch hours. She huffed and walked off.. Never did hear from that Bi*** again..
Have personal experience with this:
1989- hubby E-3 at the time, me 5 months pregnant with twins and a toddler under the age of two sitting in the cart.. Since I was having issues with stuff at the commissary, like bending over and heavy items, we went right after he got out of work to get some groceries we needed. He of course was still in BDUs. We got all our stuff and we are standing in line, I am exhausted by then so I am facing the cart and kind leaning on it waiting. My husband while waiting was behind me.. There was one person before us still emptying there cart, when this woman walks up to my husband, sees his rank and tells him he needs to move that she is Col. So and So's wife.. He said Ma'am??? She repeated herself, I heard it the second time and turned around, I said did you just tell my husband we need to move for you to go before us because your Col. So and So's wife.. She said yes, she didn't look down yet. I said first of all I don't care if your the post Generals wife, I am not moving out of my place in line, you need to find a new line or wait your turn. She said you can't talk to me like that I can have your husbands rank.. I said lady, with all do respect YOU DO NOT HAVE RANK. YOUR HUSBAND DOES! I will take this to IG and report you for impersonating an officer, threatening a soldier and his pregnant wife and child. So I suggest you find another line. Civilians do NOT have line priority only Active Duty do during lunch hours. She huffed and walked off.. Never did hear from that Bi*** again..
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LCDR Joseph Richter
This is really sad. Every place I commanded, we adopted the formality I learned while a young corpsman with the Marine Corps, it was "bottom-up" with the corps, the lowest ranks ate first and generally did most everything first so that they could get back to their details and activities, the higher ranks went last. It worked well and later on when I became a senior officer, while in the back of the line, it was nice to be able to thank my guys and gals for the work and efforts as they walked by headed to eat their meals, etc. It was a token of respect to say, we recognize we are who we are because of you and your efforts, and we really meant it. Some spouses of senior officers, have no idea of the humility that goes along with being a good leader. Now a retired person, I see spouses in stores insisting on military discounts, it is nearly as disgusting, I have no problem pulling the military spouse aside and letting him/her know that they are embarrassing those of us that are veterans and appreciate the discounts when offered but never insist on them.
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Beautiful story. If it is indeed true, I like how she apparently thought that her husband being a fighter pilot was somehow better than say a cargo pilot or supply officer.
Slightly unrelated but, I have had family members in the past tell me that they were going to call my commander if I didn't get leave or something like that. I quickly squashed that idea and left a standing order to never, under any circumstances, call anyone in my chain of command unless they for some reason are unable to get a hold of me and have reason to believe I've been abducted or something crazy like that. But bottom line, if you can communicate with me, there's no need to communicate with anyone else.
Slightly unrelated but, I have had family members in the past tell me that they were going to call my commander if I didn't get leave or something like that. I quickly squashed that idea and left a standing order to never, under any circumstances, call anyone in my chain of command unless they for some reason are unable to get a hold of me and have reason to believe I've been abducted or something crazy like that. But bottom line, if you can communicate with me, there's no need to communicate with anyone else.
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SFC Joseph Lumpkins
I have. I was a SSG stationed in Hawaii and a lady cut in front of me at the PX. I looked at her and said what in the world are you doing? She said her husband was Col So and So and I said I don't care who your husband is. She took my name and since we were the only INSCOM unit assigned to that area (FS Kunia) they were able to track me down, so the next day I was standing in front of my CO explaining to him what had happened. Funny thing was that I was in the line that gives military in uniform priority. In the end my commander told me to be nicer next time. Lucky for me it never happened again.
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