We all know that military friends never really say good-bye, just 'see ya' down the road'. It's true, eventually we all meet up again. And that's a great thing!
A friend of mine just sent me an email that shows the differences between military friends and regular, run-of-the-mill friends. It was too good to keep to myself!
Friends: Never ask for food
Military Friends: Are the
reason you have no food.
Friends: Borrow your stuff for a few days and
then give it back.
Military Friends: Borrow your stuff, keep it, and it goes
PCS with
them.
Friends: Know a few things about you.
Military
Friends: Know all about you or have met someone else at
another duty station
who does.
Friends: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is
doing.
Military Friends: Cry like babies because
they HAVE to leave you.
Friends: Call your parents Mr. and
Mrs.
Military Friends: Call your parents Mom and Dad.
Friends: Bail
you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong.
Military Friends: Would
be sitting in jail next to you saying, "Man,
they made a BIG mistake trying
to jump us."
Friends: Have never seen you cry.
Military Friends:
Cry with you.
Friends: Will knock on your front door
Military
Friends: Walk right in and say, "I'm home."
Friends: Are your friends
for a while
Military Friends: Are your friends for life as you move about
this
country or the world.
God Bless my military friends! You are my strength, my backbone, my funny bone and the reason I can so often smile no matter what life, or the military, throw at me!
