Overly sensitive or not?
Here's your question folks.....
Military housing is being offered to single military members - is that a terrible, community shattering, unfair idea?
*facepalm*
The idea that offering military housing to single active service members is causing a 'stir' among military families, i.e. the OSMW. The argument, as far as I can tell, is that it is unfair to have single people living in a military community because (and I quote)......
"there would be more partying, more irresponsibility and they don't recognize there are small children around"
OK, I'll take this little trip with you....so what you are saying is, single service members are irresponsible and because they are ALL this way, none of them deserve or have earned the right to live in military housing.
The very housing that was built for the use of military members is going to....wait for it....MILITARY members. The very people who fight for you, the very people who have actually EARNED the right to live in these houses and the very people who should welcome into your community because, and I hate to break this to you, are the REASON you have military housing....cuz you know.....they ARE THE MILITARY.
Good job stereotyping every sigle military member as a drunken frat boy who has no common sense or situational awareness enough to understand the children that are living near by. Moreover, you are basically saying that its ok for a single service member to live in a civilian family neighborhood and run over their children and partying like its 1999, but GOD FORBID, they should be living anywhere near you.
Dumb asses.
Do you not understand that the wonderful benefits you, as a military dependent, receive is not through your service to your country, but that of your spouses? DO you understand that if ANYONE deserves the right to live in military housing it is military themselves?
Dumb asses.
"they would break our community"
Are you fucking serious? THEY ARE YOUR COMMUNITY!
The very fact that someone has to actually point that out to you makes me want to PUNCH you.
Military moving into military housing! Oh the HORROR.
What next, military members who want to us the library? DURING STORY TIME??? NOOOOO.
Get over yourselves OSMW.
I, for one, am a military wife that would happily walk next door (if I actually lived on base) and welcome the new neighbor.....single or not. Why? Because that service member has made sacrifices, has chosen to be more than themselves and protect their country; they stand among the 1% of men and women who forgo seeing their loved ones for months on end and without the comforts of home. Yes, they certainly sound irresponsible and not a positive role model for YOU and your spawn.
On last thing.....
On Veteran's Day I thanked several veterans AND their families for their service, sacrifice and commitment, because yes, I believe that families play a role in the mental health of our troops through support and willingness to stay committed to the role their active duty counterparts play in times of war. HOWEVER, these women tarnish the name of military spouse and their role in the community by being selfish and bitter.
I am disgusted by the reaction of these women. I am ashamed by their actions and words. I am worried for the military men and women who will have to live next door to these entitlement spouses - they will ensure that everything 'bad' that happens in military housing will be the fault of the ALL single servicemen and women living nearby.
OSMW for the win. *sarcasm for those of you who don't get it*
