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Whether you have just found the Sound Off! message boards or have been a long-time member,
please consider our NEW website, Military Brats Online.
The new website has been getting rave reviews from everyone--it's a real online community and much closer to the
original vision I had for bringing Military Brats together.
Military Brats Online has discussion groups and personal blogs, your own photo gallery,
private messages, Chat room and MANY other exciting features,
including advanced searching so it's easy to find fellow Military Brats.
But what about Sound Off!--Will it remain available?
The Sound Off! message boards will remain active for a while, but will be archived later this year. We have not been able to integrate the
Sound Off! system into the new website as the two website systems are not compatible.
Once you join Military Brats Online, you can go to "groups" and copy over as many of your discussion messages as you would like and keep the
discussion threads going. Remember, your user ID and password for Sound Off! will NOT automatically work on the new website. You will need to sign up on Military Brats Online
and create a new profile.
While Sound Off! has been very popular with many Military Brats, it has been a very limited message board
system and the new website will offer far more features for re-connecting. I believe you will see that in the
long run, the new website is a huge improvement and it is highly interactive.
I am truly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and I thank you for your support of Military Brats Online.
--Vann Baker
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| 05-10-2002, 09:49 AM |
Don
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Registered: 05-10-2002
Total Posts: 32
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 Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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... if you use the 24-hour clock and think nothing of it.
After living on an Army base for seven years, dealing with amateur radio for a couple years, then spending 23 years in the Coast Guard I tend to think in the 24-hour clock. That is what I have on my watch. Several years ago someone asked me the time and I replied, "1705". She asked "What" and I replied more loudly, "1705" ... and then realized the error.
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| 05-10-2002, 10:24 AM |
MikeZulu
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Registered: 04-20-2002
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| 05-14-2002, 11:18 PM |
Chris_H
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Registered: 02-03-2002
Total Posts: 6
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Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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[......if you go nuts when ever you see a US Flag being flown in the rain or at night without being properly lit!
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YES!! This drives me nuts. I am now seeing more flags getting wet, and worse yet FALLING on to the ground. GRRRR!
Now... lets see some more, hmmm...
... I can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis because it caused us to move after just a month in Ft. Knox
... my dad kept thinking he was walking into the wrong house because my mother liked to re-arrange furniture, and in the Canal Zone all the housing had the same furniture
... I've actually been to Cuba... well, for a whole half hour in Guatanamo Bay while the plane refueled between Ft. Jackson, SC and Howard AFB, Canal Zone
... I had a passport as a kid, and it was maroon
... everyone in our family had their own luggage (in different colors so we knew whose was whose
... I can give out little known facts (unlike many, we were stationed in South America and the Panama Canal Zone... I find that Spanish speaking folk are really impressed when you ask where they are from, only ONE has been from Mexico --- at least two folks from Chile have been impressed that I knew who O'Higgins was!)
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| 05-15-2002, 11:07 AM |
Don
Colonel
Registered: 05-10-2002
Total Posts: 32
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Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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... your Little League coach, Scoutmaster, etc. were called "Sargeant" or "Chief", or "Captain".
... your neighborhood was separated from the "economy" by a barbed-wire fence.
... your house had a building number rather than an address.
... everyone's house had their name painted on the front door.
... some said, "Your mother wears combat boots" and you agreed.
... items of military apparel (e.g, patches, uniforms" were readily available in the local store (PX, BX, NX, uniform stores) rather than a surplus store.
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| 05-16-2002, 10:04 AM |
MikeZulu
Subscriber - 5 Star General
Registered: 04-20-2002
Total Posts: 228
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 Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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Quote:
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[......if you go nuts when ever you see a US Flag being flown in the rain or at night without being properly lit!
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YES!! This drives me nuts. I am now seeing more flags getting wet, and worse yet FALLING on to the ground. GRRRR!
Now... lets see some more, hmmm...
... I can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis because it caused us to move after just a month in Ft. Knox
... my dad kept thinking he was walking into the wrong house because my mother liked to re-arrange furniture, and in the Canal Zone all the housing had the same furniture
... I've actually been to Cuba... well, for a whole half hour in Guatanamo Bay while the plane refueled between Ft. Jackson, SC and Howard AFB, Canal Zone
... I had a passport as a kid, and it was maroon
... everyone in our family had their own luggage (in different colors so we knew whose was whose
... I can give out little known facts (unlike many, we were stationed in South America and the Panama Canal Zone... I find that Spanish speaking folk are really impressed when you ask where they are from, only ONE has been from Mexico --- at least two folks from Chile have been impressed that I knew who O'Higgins was!)
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I remember dating the Chilean Counlate's twin daughters when I was stationed At MCAS, Miami... Tall, read haired, freckles and told me about O'Higgens 
Bueno Dia.
MikeZulu
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