I show my support but I would have to agree that there is a thin line.

Weird. I don't even have a myspace. Those types of people obviously have no lives of their own.

By looking at my Myspace you would never know that my husband is in the Navy. No pictures of him in his uniform (OPSEC and PERSEC, anyone?), no irritating blinkies, no glitter graphics...I don't need any of that. He's my husband and I am damn proud of him, but I don't need to plaster it all over the internet.

I don't have a myspace account, so I'm even more undercover than you!

But I know what you mean--I'd much rather just have a general "support the troops" message than an "I'm so special--I'm a xxxx Wife" so everyone can say "oh you poor dear, it must be so hard to be married to a military guy".

You know it's all for the attention!

I have a few it just puts a smile on my face and makes me think of my husband. I just don't go out of control with it.

LOL, I don't even have a myspace. If I want to talk and communicate with my friends, I call and write them.

Yea yea..so what if they want to have stuff on their profiles? Some violate OPSEC but not all do.

I dont have anything on my myspace that relates to anything military, I find it to be a little corny.

I have pics of when hes been deployed on mine, and maybe one or two small icons (none of the blinky half my heart is in... stuff). I ALWAYS black out his name and rank, and anything affiliated with his unit (crest, identifying marks and such). I do leave up his division patch. It kind of makes him a nameless soldier. Plus I set all of my pictures on friends only and only give a general year of when he was there

I don't have any military icons or blinkies. I do have one little tag that says our last name and has dog tags on it. We met in the Army. It kind of fits. I also mention on there that I met my husband in the Army, and have the crest of the unit I served in. I used to have an OEF veteran icon, but I accidently got rid of it. Otherwise, the only military thing I have is a Beetle Bailey comic that one of my buddies from my platoon sent me because it reminded him of me. LOL

I've got Army stuff, but I was in the Army. Mostly, it's pretty mundane. I've got other stuff on there as well, like things of my hometown, heritage stuff, silly stuff, SEC football stuff, Catholic stuff...

I don't like to see the pages that are like ARMY! ARMY! ARMY! especially when it's not a soldier or a vet. I think it's weird. My husband doesn't have much Army stuff on his page either. He has a "Proud of my Veteran" icon, and a thing for his MOS. Otherwise, it's all Asian stuff and football stuff.

I understand the reasoning when it comes to violating OPSEC/PERSEC. But if it doesn't, who cares? If it's not your page, it's not your decision as to what goes on it. So if you don't like it, don't look at it.

And no, I don't have a lot of stuff like that on mine. I have a few pictures of my husband in uniform, but mostly in everyday civilian clothes and a lot of pics of the kids. I'm proud of my family and everything they do.

Ugh I know what you mean! It's so tacky and stupid! I think I have maybe one picture of him in his uniform and it was when we were getting married. My husband doesn't have any Navy shit on his page either. Everyone on my friends list is a friend or family member. They know I "miss my sailor" they don't need 4,000 glitter blinkies to tell them about it.

My myspace is private, and has NOTHING to do with the army on it. I dont even know if it says my husband is a soldier.

I sometimes think maybe i awnt to add one little picture, but 2 years later it has not happened.

i have like one or two things, but i know a girl, and her page takes forever to load because it's nothing but that. but she's also an attention whore, and has no life outside of her husband.

just so you know, this life is a lot easier if you embrace it. if you build up enough pride, some of the sadness & worry dies down.

i'm sorry you are too engrossed in separating yourself from your husband to take advantage of that & make your military life more enjoyable.

i don't think you should knock other women who do.

and i don't know if you've noticed in the civillian world, it's the same for policemen wife, swat wives & firemen. they take a lot of pride, and many of THEM have the graphics as well.

what the hell is so bad about having some pride when your husband goes above & beyond the normal cubical desk job?

sorry you are so pessimistic & negative.

AMEN!! Thank you for your post.

Gahh ok I agree that going overboard isnt needed, plastering your myspace with everything army is just TACKY but would you people learn what OPSEC really is.

Having a pic of your hubby in cammies is NOT an OPSEC violation nor is it even close. OPSEC includes (but not limited to)
• Detailed information about the mission of
assigned units.
• Details on locations and times of unit
deployments.
• Personnel transactions that occur in large
numbers (Example: pay information, powers of
attorney, wills, deployment information).
• References to trends in unit morale or
personnel problems.
• Details concerning security procedures.

So while its in poor taste to plaster crap all over the place (military or not, have you seen the ones covered in chanel logos??) its not about OPSEC. I myself dont have a plaster but I do have 2 pics of my hubby in uniform, one from ball and one from his home-coming. I am proud of him and have every right to be, my myspace is private anyhow so my private security for me is no concern. No I dont care if someone knows my husband is military, just as I wouldnt care that he was a cop, firefighter, teacher and so on.

10:13, I have plenty of pride in my branch, which is also my husband's branch. I show that by having served in said branch, and by being active for the causes I believe in as they pertain to veterans like my husband and me. That's pride. These weird icons and stuff... well, I equate those (when used in excess) more with the people who's only way of showing motivation is by sounding off really loudly in formation, but do a crappy job when it comes to actual soldiering.

Plastering yourself and your corner of the world wide web with glittery Army symbols does not equate to embracing the lifestyle, just as not doing that does not equate to being negative about it.

I think most of those things are pretty stupid looking, and while I'm sure there are some perfectly normal people who have 1000's of them, most of the ones I know personally who go way overboard with that stuff are actually the worst at this lifestyle. It's like they're trying to convince themselves it's ok or something.

Hmm. I think the only military reference on my page consists of saying that I live "in Fort Hood, Texas, where my husband is stationed." Oh, and I've got a picture of us at his boot camp graduation in one of my albums, too. I photo-shopped his name tape out, just to be on the safe side.

i agree with 216! everyone i know who has a million of those is a cheater, and/or an attention whore.

The women who do that have no hopes/dreams/ambitions/goals or accomplishments of their own so they live vicariously through their husband.

my profile is private, so only my friends (which i know everyone one of them) are the only ones that can see my profile. and it puts a smile on my husband's face to see that i'm proud of what he does. its not overboard but there are still things there.

Some women live their lives through their husbands. They are never going to do any better than a dependent wife.

are you freakin kidding me with this?!?!?!?!

lets see: i have military stuff on my page...i have an icon collage, my profile is themed about missing him while he's gone, and i have a big banner that says "it takes more than a man to wear a uniform, and more than a woman to marry a man in one".

i am also a sucessful photographer-a career that i always dreamed of having, and was my biggest dream until i realized it. i'm pretty sure i'm not living my life vicariously through my husband, and that i'm not just a dependant wife. which, by the way, is beyond insulting-my mother was a dependant wife for 20 years, and so was my grandmother. what the hell is so wrong with being that if that's what makes you happy???? it's so that now, if you aren't a "career woman" and you really take joy in staying home with your family that you aren't driven and happy. my grandmother and my mother were both immensely happy, and i promise were driven and better mothers than the ones who leave their kids in daycares and with other people to raise while they're out being "better than a dependant wife".

and i'm no cheater, but my ex-husband soldier sure was over in iraq, so don't even go there. that generalization is the most ignorant statement i've heard in the past year. and with this being an election year, that's saying a lot.

my grandfather was a master sargent in the army, my fater a SFC, all three of my uncles were, and now my husband is-i'm proud to be an army brat and army wife....i've lived the life and if i want to paint it on my house, that should be my perogative without picky people complaining about it.

my husband is in the army, and i'm tremendously proud of him. and i don't care who knows it-though my page is private so random people can't look at my page. but everyone in my life knows he's in the army, so i'm pretty sure i'm not violating any extra security measures by having an "i love my soldier" glitter on there. refer to the list of OPSEC above-thank God someone has some sense.

My husband is in the Army National Guard and I'm very proud of him. On my myspace I have two glitters. One saying Support our troops and another saying I love my soldier. I change my layout frequently and sometimes it's military themed (army wife etc) and I don't think it's overboard. Be proud of him and showing it is nothing to be ashamed of. Whether you are dependent on him or out making your own life doesn't matter. It takes all sorts to be a military wife or husband and one isn't better than the other. I don't see a problem with showing your pride in your husband. To each their own.

I hate when wifes do that ive been married to my husband for 8yrs and all of it has been army life. They just want attention a big thank you from everyone around them like people owe them something. I like to think then men and women who join our armed services do it with pride and integraty and most of all selfless reasons not to get a big pat on the back from every civilan who passes by them. They fight for freedom and everything great about america,no one makes them enlist in the military they do it for there own reasons not so there spouse and take all the credit and put a friggin huge sticker in the back of her minivan saying look and me and your welcome!

you can't be freakin serious! obviously you have no respect for the sacrifices it takes to be in the military or be a military wife/husband. and we do it for YOU. don't you DARE sit there and anonymously say that we just want attention. come say it to a REAL wive's face...

i could care less if no one pats me on the back for it-that's not why i married him and not why i'm proud to post it on my myspace. funny-no strangers can see my myspace so i don't have random people thanking me. it's for ME-it makes ME feel better about the fact that he's over there fighting for ignorant people like you to have the right to put my family down for being proud of him.

Ok 4:47 do you have a college degree did you play four years of competitive NCAA college volleyball. I have that stuff on my my myspace but I do have my own hope dreams ambitions and goals. I did finish college and had an amazing volleyball career that ended due to a knee injury but now I coach and train girls wanting to go to college and play competively. I think women like you have way to much time on your hand if your gonna bitch about what someone has on their myspace. I'm damn proud of my husband and thats why I have that stuff on my myspce not for a pit party. Ohh and my myspace is private and I only have friends i know on my friends list and none of them pity me or the life that my husband and I chose. So get over it what someone chooses to have on their myspace is their choice and I have never seen anyones violate OPSEC.

if it's not your myspace who cares what they have on it.

its showing pride in what your husband does.. I think its great that women do this .. because for some its the only way to show support and pride in what their husbands do at least they are not on my space looking for other men.. like some on here.. at least their MY space screams MARRIED...TAKEN....others dont post anything about their husbands at all... so I say go for it girls post anything you wish show your husband you support him and love him.. those who dont like it well you know they are not proud and they are looking for a way to cheat while their men are deployed....

hahahaha! thank you.

if you were in the army, do you think your husband would have "proud army husband" blah blah blah fucking bullshit all over his page? i don't think so. stop being attention whores. ATTENTION WHOOOOOREEEESSSS.

most of them are little girlfriends anyway that walk around wearing "my boyfriend is in the army" t shirts. grow a pair you retards.

my husband sure as hell would-he's proud of what i do and very supportive of me just like i am of him.

and if your page is private, no one can see it except the people you want to. and my friends don't go around patting me on the back for being an army wife. they do congratulate me on being a mom which i have stickers for also...and photography...and music...and poetry...and all the other things that i'm interested in and are a part of my life. attention whore yourself, you .....

i know tons of people who aren't married to or dating military members that have their pages plastered with military stuff also. most of them are in a group called "soldiers angels" and having their pages covered does get them attention which is the point-the more they get, the more people get interested in supporting our troops. which means support to my husband and the men and women he works with...i can't support them by myself...and i appreciate anyone who is willing to put it out there and help people they've never even met.

awwww 7:03 got her feel goods hurted

no, stupid snotty bitches don't hurt my feelings. i just don't like the fact that they can get on here and namelessly judge me and the way i live. i very seriously doubt most people would say the things they do on here if they had to do it in person...it's easy to hide behind a keyboard...

PS i'm also 11:01, 8:45 and 7:06...thanks. i have no problem taking credit for my opinions...how about you?

put on your big girl panties and deal with it 9:02

Ok please someone tell me how we got our freedoms. Did some person say "here you go here's all your freedoms". No I dont think so they were fought for by husbands, wives, daughters, sons, nieces, nephews, friends, and family. If someone wants to plaster their myspace with military glitters it is ok it just goes to show they are very proud of our men and women in uniform who fight for our freedoms everyday. I am a Proud United States Coast Guard Wife, Navy Sister-in-law, National Guard Grandchild and Proud Friend of Air force, Marine, and Army members. I have a U.S. COAST GUARD sticker on the back of my car along with a "Coast Guard Wife Hardest job in the Guard" and I am damn proud of my husband and would shout it on the roof tops because I am thankful and proud that there are men and women out there protecting me and my freedoms. I dont do it for a pat on the back, not for the benefits, not even so when my husband is sailing I can have any man I want. I do it because I am proud of Everyone and What this Country Stands for. Its people like you that make Proud Military Families like us look like Attention Whores. I will say this I'm not leaving this anonymously My name is Malinda Wilson U.S. Coast Guard Wife and damn pround of it. I 100% support Plastered Myspace Pages.

I support my daughters, and thier husbands, my father, my two nephews and everone else in the services, We come from a long line of miltary from world war 2 to now, I've lost family members in those war and I still belive they did not die for nothing. So if you want to plaster anything on your page it's ok. and if you don't it's ok but don't knock those who do, And it dosen't make any one a whore either. My father's uncle died for our country, My dad was navy, 1 son in law is Navy the other is Coast Guard 1 nephew is Marines the other is National Guard both nephews have been in over seas this year for most of the year.

You don't want people to judge... you don't post in a public area. You don't have to have "military" anything on your myspace profile. However, you lack a great deal of common sense. You think it's stupid, others think, it's an attention whore thing. I feel sorry for all of you. If it makes a woman happy to post up their page military then fuck you it's none of your business. If it makes you happy, to not mention your husband's real life (which a real army wife knows its the army) then shut up and don't do it. No one want to hear your ass complain. My friend's husband died 2 years ago and her page is still flared up as a military spouse. There are no comments about how he did't make it back or how he died but how proud she is to be an army wife. Talk to me when it's deployment number 4 for a year long and you need an extra kick in the ass to remember it's tough and you got it. This is retarded.