• Creating A Community

    By Jen Heisel I’m not your typical Marine Corps spouse. I’ve never been through a PCS and have never moved to be with my husband (miraculously, he’s only ever been stationed in San Diego, and we met six months after I moved here). I don’t have kids and I work full-time. I had a life that existed before my husband and one that still exists quite separately from the military. I love my civilian life, my civilian friends, my civilian house in my civilian neighborhood and my civilian job. But this military life is weird. There are no two ways about it. You could go days without hearing from your…