I married my husband when I was fresh out of the Marine Corps. The ink wasn’t even dry on my DD214 when we exchanged rings, and within a week of the “I Do’s,” he was deployed. An active duty Marine assigned to a grunt battalion with one combat deployment under his belt, he was still practically a baby when we got married. We got married on a Saturday and on Monday, we went in to get me registered in his DEERS (Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System). Two days married and we hit our first snag with military paperwork.
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I’d just returned from a long day of working on the set of one of my bucket list projects. The day began early, with me rising at 5 AM after only 3 hours of sleep to drive three hours to drop my kids off with a friend, and it ended at 8 PM when I arrived home and fell, exhausted, into my bed. It had been a long, hot, productive day filled with great people and new faces and I couldn’t have asked for a better day of filming fun. Despite the overwhelming August heat, the three hours of DC rush hour traffic, and the little sleep I was running on, I’d thoroughly enjoyed the work. But I was beat up, and all I wanted to do was be dead to the world for six solid days.
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AuthorKatie Foley is the Editor-in-Chief at Many Kind Regards and the Creator of Highly Offensive Mom. An independent author, her work has appeared in multiple publications, both in print and online, and she has published two novels. Married to a US Marine, she is a mom to three kids, an author, a volunteer, and the 2014 & 2015 Independent and Reserve Installation Marine Corps Spouse of the Year. Additionally, she is the lead for the Bryan College Station chapter of In Gear Career. In her spare time she likes to breathe and draw up plans for the invasion of small countries. You can stalk her on Facebook and Twitter. Archives
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