 1999 that's when we got married so been doing it been doing it ever since hi hi America we're the Johnson's we are right in the middle of packing to go to Germany but if you want to come into the chaos come on come on it oh we've been back it's a good question actually we've been we never unpacked from our last move really I follow her a lot of time so a lot of people are gonna know when they see they're like hey aren't you Sergeant Johnson's husband aren't you Master Sergeant Johnson's husband aren't you Sergeant Major Johnson's husband that's my title so I don't get my own I don't get to be Major Johnson I get to be her husband Michelle was on her way to Korea and I was coming here just for this last year we didn't unpack a lot of our things so we kind of been living a little bit out of the box every year is different because you're moving and things so soon as you start to get bored at something and get into a routine it's time to pick up and move again so I actually like that I think it's kind of cool although she hates moving I hate the moving it's the weird pun right yeah so we have three boys when it comes down to being able to stay together obviously the military there's needs of the army needs of the military so there are going to be times where families are gonna have to be separate and in our case being dual military makes a little bit more challenging one of the biggest things we took into consideration was their stability my husband was in high school his senior year of high school his family moved and he was really it really you know affected him as a you know as a senior in high school to have no friends to have no activities that he was used to doing so he didn't want to do that to our kids one of the things we realized was that we were gonna have to be separate my husband and I were gonna have to be separate what was offered to me was Korea so I spent the year in Korea while she stayed behind and she started working for the Sergeant Major of the Army as I was returning from Korea we found out she was selected for the Sergeant Major's Academy no problem now we could have moved to Fort Bliss but we would have to pull the kids out of school instead of us moving there I came back here and I stayed here with him so that that was our second year apart it's hard being apart at certain times for so long so you got you have to maintain that and you have to do your best to to work with that and work with what you have so it has made our family stronger I believe by talking to our branch management folks we were able to figure out a way to align everything so that we could finally be together for this last three years going to Germany is kind of the culmination of all of that although we won't be there together we're going there we're gonna go separately it's the same country but it puts us on the same continent which is great so we'll be about 60 miles apart somewhere in there but it's that was that's what we had to do in order to figure out what's the best plan for our family given my own experience I would have to say that the military as a whole has made a stop that that's just kind of part of life you gotta you gotta learn to adjust sometimes learn to adapt and do your best at work where you are in your situation I do think that through whatever struggles we personally have or the family has had that the military being a military family has allowed us to move through it