Any 'Military Brat' memories?
Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:25 am
I was recently reading this entry, and I recall some of our regulars have called themselves 'military brats' before now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_brat
Anyone got any comments on the topic, or the Wiki reference?
Did it make life easier, or harder?
Would you have preferred things to be different, or happy how they were?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_brat
Anyone got any comments on the topic, or the Wiki reference?
Did it make life easier, or harder?
Would you have preferred things to be different, or happy how they were?
Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:48 pm
James,
Being a "Brat" was an interesting experience, particularly as mine was in the 50's and 60's. Although, for whatever reason, my father was never stationed overseas (except for spell with the 25th Division in the Korean Police Action), the moves around the U.S. provided for a look at our country and cultures. Well, I guess you could call 3 years in Alaska "overseas", since it wasn't a state at that time (became one while we were there).
In a short twelve years, it was:
New Jersey - New York - Alabama (Korean Police thing) - Georgia - Texas - New York - Alabama - Alaska - Georgia - Florida
Being a "Brat" was an interesting experience, particularly as mine was in the 50's and 60's. Although, for whatever reason, my father was never stationed overseas (except for spell with the 25th Division in the Korean Police Action), the moves around the U.S. provided for a look at our country and cultures. Well, I guess you could call 3 years in Alaska "overseas", since it wasn't a state at that time (became one while we were there).
In a short twelve years, it was:
New Jersey - New York - Alabama (Korean Police thing) - Georgia - Texas - New York - Alabama - Alaska - Georgia - Florida
Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:23 pm
I remember being moved and living in Base Housing while I was a BRAT.
Kurt
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Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:28 pm
We lived in senior officer quarters at Mayport since my step-dad was a Captain ans SMO on the Saratoga.
Since there wasn't beach space available for the department picknick one year we had it at our house.
That pissed all the neighbors off inc Adm Smedberg the CO of the Battlegroup who lived around the corner
It started at noon Saturday and by that evening it was chaos.
The guy BBQ ing ribs got more of his secret sauce on the side of the house than the ribs that it had to be repainted.
All those guys were 3/4 in the bag playing volleyball, solfball and wrestling each other. About the only thing they didn't do
was to have a human sacrifice. It was a great place to grow up and I did a lot of cool stuff like hanging out at the airfield,
2 tigers cruises on the saratoga and 7-8 day cruises minesweeper, FFG, FF, DDG, CG CV and even a WWII era Gearing Class DD.
Since there wasn't beach space available for the department picknick one year we had it at our house.
That pissed all the neighbors off inc Adm Smedberg the CO of the Battlegroup who lived around the corner
It started at noon Saturday and by that evening it was chaos.
The guy BBQ ing ribs got more of his secret sauce on the side of the house than the ribs that it had to be repainted.
All those guys were 3/4 in the bag playing volleyball, solfball and wrestling each other. About the only thing they didn't do
was to have a human sacrifice. It was a great place to grow up and I did a lot of cool stuff like hanging out at the airfield,
2 tigers cruises on the saratoga and 7-8 day cruises minesweeper, FFG, FF, DDG, CG CV and even a WWII era Gearing Class DD.
coolest thing I got to do..
Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:28 am
My Mom and I flew from California to Kadena on Okinawa (sp?) back in the early eighties to see my Dad, who was stationed in Korea. Flew thru to Phillipines on C-130 and KC-135 rest of the way and all the way back. The coolest thing was getting to ride in the back of a Mustang chase car that caught the wing on U-2 at landing to keep it from scraping the ground when it slowed down. I remember sitting in the back of that car watching the U-2 get big in the rear window, and as it flew overhead the race was on to catch it. Pretty big thrill for a 10-11 year old.