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I’M NOT A BRAT!!
What, like that’s a bad thing? Actually, it’s a great honor to be identified as a “Military Brat.” Throughout decades, millions of kids who grew up military have embraced the term with pride. While most people think “brat” equals “spoiled,” the dictionary defines brat as “a child of…” So, a Military Brat is a child of the military. The military likes to use acronyms to shorten everything, and some think that BRAT originally came from British Regiment Attached Traveler. However, the opposite is true and the British version was built on the word “brat”, not the other way around! Many acronyms have been used, such as: Born, Raised And Trained; Bold, Responsible, Adaptable, Tolerant. What acronym can you create?
Military Brats have been fortunate to experience world events first-hand. Some of those experiences were very scary, others were educational. The Military Brats Registry News Blog is here to tell your stories. Remember…
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Update Your Profile
Update Your Military Brat Profile Now you can add a second email address in your profile as a backup in case your main address fails. Go to the Login-Logout [...]
Return to Nijubashi Bridge
Return to Nijubashi Bridge February 1954. Mom, sister Dawn and I boarded the General E.D. Patrick troop ship in San Francisco and headed to Yokohama, Japan where we rendezvoused with my father, Sgt. [...]
Life in Libya – 1950s
Life in Libya - 1950's Wheelus Field Dependents School As I got older and became a writer and editor, I thought back to the adventurous days of being a military [...]
Powdered Ice Cream
Powdered Ice Cream From Peggy (Thornblom) Campbell: My dad was stationed with the 11th Airborne Division at Camp Schimmelpfennig, Japan, outside of Sendai, after fighting in Europe during World War [...]
General Jonathan Wainwright’s Pilot
General Jonathan Wainwright's Pilot From Fritzie Herndon Maddock I was a brat in the "old days" when we moved very often, and changed schools right and left. We lived with my [...]
Very Strange Places
Very Strange Places From Carol Darling: In the mid 1950's when my dad was stationed at Orleans, my parents decided to have us live as a French family in the [...]