Military Brat Life

Air Force Brat Jeapordy

by Keith Jones

Travel For 100 pts.
It is a vessel that transports, destroys, and delays our most precious possessions.
What is the Mayflower?

Travel For 200 pts.
This is a God-forsaken place with no interesting possibilities.
What is a Air Force Brats next Destination?

Travel For 300 pts.
It is a day in which household belonging arrive out of storage.
What is a Military Christmas Day?

Travel For 400 pts.
It is a small square sticker attached to all household belongings.
What is a brat stamp?

Travel For 500 pts.
They have the most brat stamps on their bicycles.
Who are the base commander's kids?

Lifestyle For 100 pts.
It leaves you bruised and unsightly.
What is a military haircut?

Lifestyle For 200 pts.
It is a crowded warehouse with limited merchandise and workers with only 9 fingers.
What is the base commissary?

Lifestyle For 300 pts.
It is a large vessel, which holds, rejected body fluids.
What is the base pool?

Lifestyle For 400 pts.
It is the main difference between the Officer's and the NCO's pool.
What are 500 kids?

Lifestyle For 500 pts.
It is a sobering event, following a night of celebration.
What is driving through the security gate?

Potpourri For 100 pts.
It is a place, which has had more punctures than Betsy Ross's pin cushion.
What is an air force brat's arm?

Potpourri For 200 pts.
It is a small structure with 10,000 legs and no pubic hair.
What is the Saturday matinee on base?

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Operation Footlocker
by Vann Baker

What is green, covered with stickers and filled with memories and icons which only a Military Brat can understand? Operation Footlocker.

We've all grown up with footlockers, but Operation Footlocker doesn't travel with one person from destination to another�it travels to brat reunions, events and military bases as a mobile memory project.

Operation Footlocker is a grassroots effort to celebrate the shared cultural identity of Military Brats and grew out a discussion in the spring of 1996 on the Military Veterans of America site within America Online.

Mary Edwards Wertsch, author of the book Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, and one of the participants in the discussion, first conceived the idea of taking a real footlocker and sending it around the country as a way of gathering memorabilia and bringing brats together. Reta Jones Nicholson provided the first footlocker and was the catalyst who brought Operation Footlocker from discussion to realty.

Operation Footlocker is a volunteer effort and requests can be made to have the footlocker shipped to for brat events or sharing brat history with the general public.

For more information on appearances or to bring the Footlocker to your event, visit the Operation Footlocker web site.

This article first appeared in On The Move, Volume 1, Number 1.

Did You Know . . .

. . . Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams is a Military Brat?
Dr. Adams is an Army Brat. He was recently portrayed by Robin Williams in a film about his use of humor in medicine.

For a more complete list, be sure to take a look at Glenn Greenwood's Famous Overseas Alumni & Military Brats list, located on the American Overseas School Historical Society web site.