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Re: What do you think

Posted by Kathy S. on 9/7/2005, 18:47:26, in reply to "What do you think"
"It would actually be like to be a SEAL?"

I think you would have a certain arrogance, the "Best of the Best" mentality. A sense of elation when a op went well and a sense of frustration when you know you have all these skills, but they aren't always put to their maximum potential. Along that same line, constrained. Lonely, I'd miss my family, my boys and most of all, having my spouse in bed with me every night (yes, the sex - come on, we're all thinking it, someone had to say it). I can't even picture myself in your shoes when you were an operator. I hate being cold and wet and covered in sand. If I'm freezing cold, I want to have a pair of ski's on my feet, flying downhill; if I'm wet, I want to be underwater leisurely admiring the fish & coral; if I'm sandy, I want to be able to dive in and rinse off. Hell week and after just would not have been for me even it they did accept women. I do admire what you went through and the service you did for our country, as I do all the troops who serve.

"What do think it would be like to be married to a SEAL?"

Lonely sometimes. Proud all the time. I'm sure the SEAL groupies would be annoying. It would be hard to face the long separations all Navy wives go through. I'm a worrier, when my husband flies the Piper, I have him call me the minute he lands. I'd be a nervous wreck having a husband off doing covert work that could not check in just to say he was O.K. I would feel tired from having to do everything when my husband was away or at sea.

My brother is retired Navy and I know what his wife went through, so I truly admire Navy wives, but I'm happy that I'm not one.


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