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-You own at least 1 article of clothing that says USMC/Marines/Proud girlfriend on it and wear it at least once a week.
- Your AIM/ AOL/ Yahoo ect. profiles say Semper Fi or have song lyrics in them at least once
-You know what the terms head, rack, field day, and PT mean and have no trouble using them on a daily basis.
- You know the difference between a Poolee/Recruit/Marine and know the rank structure like the back of our hand.
- You feel every note of the songs by 3 Doors Down; "When I'm Gone and Here Without You." As well as by Lonestar "I'm Already There." Also, "Proud to be an American" and "The National Anthem"
-You watch the news and cry hysterically for fallen Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors and no one seems to understand why.
- You just cry...& cry...& cry for no reason at all and we are fine with that. (It's normal isn't it?!)
- You have at least 1 (but probably more family membes or friends) that doesn't approve or understand our long distance relationship.
-Between the ages of 17-23 we have no problem saying yes to a marriage propsal and don't understand why the rest of the world thinks we're "too young" to get married.
-You belong to some Girlfriend/Fiance/Wives support group online and consider the girls in the goupr some of your best friends and would rather spend a Friday or Saturday night at home talking to them then out with people who don't understand your relationship and try to hook you up with other guys. After all.....They are the only girls that understand
-you don't mind a phone call waking you up at 4 a.m.
-you tell people that ask that he's ''only'' been gone a month.
-the smallest contact (short email) from your man makes your entire week!
-you cry over an email that says nothing more than hi and I miss you.
-those recruitment commercials on TV make you cry because you are so proud!
-your sentences start containing more [acronyms] and numbers than actual words.
-you sleep in PT attire, cuddled up in a poncho liner, because it's the closest you can come to being with your military man.
-you're sitting at home and you realize that you haven't talked to your boyfriend in over a month.
-you get super excited just knowing that your boyfriend tried to call but wasn't able to get through.
-the first ball you go to as a [girlfriend] your name tag says "Mrs". Is that a self fulfilling prophecy or what?!?
-you know your a military girlfriend when your favorite 'man' to see everyday is the MAILMAN (what a love/hate relationship that is).
-when you refer to everyone not in the militay or dating someone in the military as a Civilian, you can rattle off the time in perfect military time without having to think and finally you get excited when you can name the assault rifle correctly.
-you stop shaving above the knees.
-a 30 second phone call after no calls from him for 3.5 months leaves you full of joy and happiness,
-"No news is good news" becomes your motto.
-the motto "no shore too distant " becomes your life.
-you could wait forever for your loved one to return home into your arms.
-you feel yourself growning more and more in love with your military man even while he's so far away.
-planning letters/ care packages and putting them in the mail is more exciting then going out for a night on the town with the girls
-you don't mind tripping over combat boots left in the middle of the bedroom floor.
-while enjoying an evening alone together, your boyfriend shows you all the different ways he knows to kill or incapacitate a man, and then you casually continue cooking dinner as though it's perfectly normal
-you find yourself learning phrases in foreign languages from letters, and aren't surprised when you realize you know how to say, "Throw down your weapons and lay down on the ground!" in Arabic
-you hold off on seeing certain movies so you can see them with your military man when he comes home
-you want to roll your eyes when you hear someone say "i havent seen my boyfriend in a week!"
-you can be go from being happy, to sad, to lonely, to angry, to proud, and back to happy in a matter of
less than an hour
-you sleep with the phone right next to you, just in case
-if he's deployed you don't care how your hair looks nor care about wearing make-up
- the people at your work ask about your boyfriend every day to see if you've heard from him
-you start saying thing like "Wow that is a really nice box. Are you going to use that for anything?" to total strangers.
-you can give the rates for all the long distance calling cards on the market without hesitation.
-the sight of any other man in a uniform makes you miss your boyfriend MORE than it makes you drool
- you try to explain to civilians what your boyfriend does for a living, they give you a blank look because they don't understand a third of what you just said.
-you feel lucky for each second granted to the two of you.
-every new watch you buy had a two time zone feature.
-you are 3000 miles apart and you dont notice the time difference and talk until 5 am his time 2am your time on a school night
-phone kisses are just as good as the real ones
-you realize you can forgive your bf for not calling you for a few weeks due to the fact he really had to work.
-your cell phone shows 87 screens full of the number 2 for "repeat message" after you hear he left you a voice mail because you missed his first and only call so far!
-going 3-6 months without seeing your man seems like a drop in the bucket compared to other women you know and what you have been through before.
-you have seen the following movies more than 100 times: Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Heartbreak Ridge, The Right Stuff, Top Gun, and Apocolypse Now.
-you haven't heard from him in while and you find yourself reading the old letters you have received. its just something comforting to feel close to him in a way
-you don't bat an eyelash when he say's "Uh, Honey they changed when I'm supposed to return home, yet again (for the 18th millionth time)"
-you find it romantic when your mililtary man serenades you with cadences