You know, it’s weird… my boyfriend’s brother is in the process of becoming a Marine (Basic now, infantry training — BY CHOICE despite testing into pretty much any other job he could have wanted — in a couple months) and so I’m slowly beginning to learn what it’s like to be part of a military family. Or at least, to have a serviceman in the family. And it’s… weird. My own family doesn’t have any history of military service, so it’s completely foreign to me.

I do know I’ll be terrified if/when he gets deployed…