She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

What is about Army uniforms? Especially combats. They are just drool-worthy, if you ask me.

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

We are all regular people, Pia,’ she laughs. ‘But we are notregular wives.

The situations we Army wiveshave to deal with are not normal ones at all. The nomadic lifewe lead, moving from station to station, being separated fromour husbands for long stretches of time, and the constant fearthat we live with if our husbands are anywhere near the sensitiveareas in the country . . .

Oh Pia, I feel GOOD! Fully recovered!’ he always says in a dazzling tone that tells everyone within a ten-kilometre radius that he’s not.

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention!

Military Wives—Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country.