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Military Brat Life
Christmas is a tough time for Brats. No doubt
about it. But some of us had it a little better
than others. As a dependant of a USN swabbie, I
can vouch-safe for the efforts of the USMC in trying
to make do with very little. If the average Marine
has only the most basic equipment with which to go
into combat, then you might think that Santa would
be a no-go situation.
Not so. I remember Santa as a very efficient kind of
guy, definitely dressed in Scarlet and packing a
bag of goodies so huge that it took a Huey type
chopper to bring them in. (Which very nicely took
care of any explanations regarding reindeer.) And
if the jolly old elf wore combat boots it wasn't
us Brats who noticed anything out of place.
Seemed natural to us!
To this day, Christmas isn't quite right for me
until I've made a drop at the USMC Toys for Tots.
"When Santa Wore Combat Boots"
by Trina Tessier
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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 anotherit 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.
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. . . Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams is a Military Brat?
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.
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