Dirty Santa Recap

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Meet your MSC Board! December: Angie Compton

I was born and raised in Southern Ohio.  I am the oldest of four daughters.  My parents and sisters still live in the little town in Ohio that I came from, but I met this boy one day at the grocery store where I worked and that was pretty much the end of me living in that small town in Ohio.  Other than an Aunt that I heard about on occasion, I had never met anyone who had left home and stayed away.  The thought of globe trotting with Matt was scary at the beginning but it has worked out for me.

I married Matt in April 1990 and our first assignment was Ft. Walton Beach, FL.  I was so homesick that I honestly thought this was a horrible place to be assigned.  I guess the saying that "each assignment is what you make of it" is really true.  I also believe in karma...I truly have gotten to see horrible assignments. 

Our oldest daughter, Samantha, was born in 1991.  After a year long tour in Korea and our reunion at Holloman AFB in NM (the karma assignment) we were blessed with our second bundle of joy, Katie, in 1993.  

Matt's job keeps him on the road quite a bit.  We decided when I was pregnant with Sammie, that if there were anyway at all for us to live comfortably on his paycheck, that I would stay home and raise our children with our morals and our values.  So that is what I have done for the last 19 years.  Being a stay at home Mom isn't always peaches and rainbows, as most everyone knows, but I have to say it was worth all of the frustration, tears, fears and crying to see my girls at the ages they are now and to KNOW that they are amazing, intelligent, kind-hearted and generous people because of me.

I truly believe in giving back to our military community.  I also believe in teaching the next generation of military wives the importance of getting out and getting involved in their military community.  Getting involved and getting to know people is THE difference between a great assignment and a karma assignment.