I did my 4 year Navy enlistment and have zero idea about officer life
We used to call them the 1% (this is when occupy wall street jumped off)
got beat over the head about the non-fraternizing rule
they were always cool with us, but all we had to say was yes sir/ma'am

FFWD to 2019, I've been out since 2012
Been with my girl for 6 months now
(I posted about her predilection for hocus pocus shit a few weeks back)
we're good, I'm happy with her, she says she's happy with me
what could go wrong?

Couple of weeks ago she hits me with
"I've talked to an Army recruiter and want to go Officer"
me: Weebay.gif

Background: she just got her M.A. (International Trade and Finance), 29 y/o, has been applying for jobs for the past 4 months and all she's got is "thank you for your interest" e-mails and no interviews/offers

Right now she's temping and hustling (tutoring, kids coaching) and stressed the fuck out over her life going nowhere

I told her it took me 6 months after I got my bachelors to get my current federal job but she's not hearing me
She wants to start a career TODAY
I've helped her out and we were talking moving in together/seeing how that goes and getting engaged at some point
(that was before she dropped the Army bomb)

I immediately flashed back to all the fuckery I saw in the Navy:
Dudes and broads cheating on their S.O./spouses on deployment
marriages falling apart on deployment
boat hoes (both genders) running into their S.O.'s arms when we came back

This is all the enlisted side, I imagine officer life can't be much different

I was single when I enlisted, and did my numbers like everyone else
then I got married and fell back
got through my 2 deployments without a dear john call/letter or divorce papers

So I tell her my boat stories, and ask her if she's 100% sure this is what she wants (yes)
Told her about 10 hot dogs for every bun, and how as soon as she gets out of basic it'll be
https://media.giphy.com/media/JVqeFxl3Qo8/giphy.gif

I'm not into LDR, did that a couple of times back in the day and it's for the birds

she took the ASVAB today, got a 93, and recruiter told her sky's the limit
Some other score qualifies her for OCS after basic and now she's just training for the PT test

At this point I'm just preparing myself for the inevitable
she's highly motivated and I can already see her as one of those "I love the Army" 20-30 year career types

Like I said, my frame of reference is the enlisted life