I know a bunch of you can relate to this...

[davsel]

Reminded me of working the gate on a mid shift at Brooks AFB long ago. I had an old 80 something lady drive up with an officer's sticker on the windshield. I made a bad assumption and failed to salute. She politely handed me her retiree ID card - not required to do so at the time, and I quickly noticed she herself was a retired Colonel. Oopse. She just smiled, returned my salute and went on her way.

It was the crappy little teenage dependent officer's kids that pissed me off when I would salute the window sticker and they would just laugh and drive through, or the occasional officer's wife that would slow way down waiting for and expecting a salute. It was a small enough base that we learned who was who pretty quickly.

I understand officer's wives take their husband's rank more seriously and personally than enlisted. My three wives while enlisted couldn't have cared less.

[Bailey Guns]

My wife and I were the same rank...but I had her in TIG/TIS. I thought it was pretty important. She, apparently, didn't.

[brutal]

My wife and I were the same rank...but I had her in TIG/TIS. I thought it was pretty important. She, apparently, didn't.

My wife beat me in TITS

[TheGrey]

The behavior of a few officer's wives really cast a pall on the whole group when I was stationed at Tempelhof.

[Chaffee2]

I had a friend who was a female SSgt and her husband was a MSgt. One day she was in line at the commissary in civilian cloths and as usual the lines long and slow. My friend was almost next in line for the register when a Col wife pushed her cart in front of her. Friend said excuse me but you need to go to the back of the line. Col wife said I'm a Col wife and I have the right to cut in line. Friend said and not quietly, my husband is a MSgt and you need to your ass at the back of the line now. Many hand claps for the friend and the stink eye to the Col wife. She went to the back of the line.

Not exactly on topic but it is about a Capt.'s wife, she to was also Capt. and also my boss. Me and a couple of other airman were working in job control and it was very quiet which was unusual. A couple of days earlier I was at my desk and several of the female co-workers came in and started talking. I was the only guy and my desk was a across the room. They forgot I was there and started talking girl talk and the Capt said how she was frustrated with the lack of sex she had because her husband would rather golf and hang out with his friends. She was very hot by the way. Couple of days later in job control when it was very quiet I told about the female Capt and being young kids we started talking about what we would like to do with the her and what a limp ##$% her husband must be. Being usually quiet in JC what we did not realize was the Capt had her office next to JC and wall was paper thin. After talking about her for a while her phone rang and she answered it and it sounded like she was sitting with us. After the call she came into to JC pissed. I thought for sure I was going to be cleaning toilets until I retired. She just glared at me for a bit and left. They were getting ready to transfer out in a week or so anyway. It taught me a lesson about gossiping and how thin some walls can actually be.