Uniforms

A few days ago my husband arrived back from being TDY.  I was up at the hangar to pick him up and I was talking to one of the other soldier he works while I was waiting for him.  He made me laugh a little when he told me he had given his wife 'an Army wife test'...  so I had to ask.  Apparently, his idea of this test was to give his wife his ACU top and all of his patches and she had to put them on in the right place.  I thought it was funny until I started really thinking about the night before...

While my husband was gone, I found out that there were two unit awards that had been approved from the timeframe during our most recent deployment.  After receiving the copies of the orders, I ordered the new ribbons he would need and the night before he came home I put the updated ribbons together.  I guess I don't think much of this, becuase it was something I was used to not only doing, but I spent many hours inspecting and fixing issues on the uniforms of my soldiers. 

With that being said, it wasn't something I had ever thought of until that soldier said something about it being a test. I have noticed though, whether they wore a uniform at some point in time or not, military spouses that have been around the military for quite awhile pick up the ins and outs of little things that they were never 'trained' to do.