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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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| 06-12-2002, 04:01 PM |
rragan
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Registered: 06-12-2002
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 Re: You know you are a military brat if..... (Re: vann)
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you park your car by the side of the road to watch the jets take off at the nearby air base many years after you used to sneak as close to the flight line as possible to watch the jets take off when you were a kid living on the base.
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Good one, I used to go up on the flight line at Ashia Air Base in Japan and watched the crippled planes coming in from Korea in 1950 - 1952. They would fly out supplies and fresh troops and bring in troops for R&R. Saw a lot of air disasters but we would hug that ground as close as we could get. Your comment brought back a lot of memories that I wouldn't change for anything so I guess I can really say that I was and I am and I always will be a Military Brat.
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Do you remember stopping on the perimeter road everytime planes took off or landed?
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| 06-13-2002, 01:59 PM |
MB1980
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Registered: 06-09-2002
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you park your car by the side of the road to watch the jets take off at the nearby air base many years after you used to sneak as close to the flight line as possible to watch the jets take off when you were a kid living on the base.
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Good one, I used to go up on the flight line at Ashia Air Base in Japan and watched the crippled planes coming in from Korea in 1950 - 1952. They would fly out supplies and fresh troops and bring in troops for R&R. Saw a lot of air disasters but we would hug that ground as close as we could get. Your comment brought back a lot of memories that I wouldn't change for anything so I guess I can really say that I was and I am and I always will be a Military Brat.
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Do you remember stopping on the perimeter road everytime planes took off or landed?
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Perimeter road in Kadena Air Base... ahh, the memories. Whenever we skipped school we'd drive around and around and around the perimeter road. We watched planes getting baths and watched the sound barrier getting refurbished (I know the Japanese construction workers were confused seeing us drive by, back and forth, over and over). Hee hee. We'd watch the pretty blue lights on the flightline at night, and think about how some of those lights ended up "missing" during AmericaFest.
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| 06-17-2002, 10:56 AM |
SusanB
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Registered: 06-17-2002
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| 06-17-2002, 10:57 AM |
SusanB
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Registered: 06-17-2002
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Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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. . . you rememember having K or C Rations around the house in case of emergencies, or WW III.
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If......... your worst nightmare is that you are in line in the bx and you dont have your id card with you.
SusanB
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| 06-18-2002, 07:03 PM |
Marguerite
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Registered: 06-18-2002
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Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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. . . you rememember having K or C Rations around the house in case of emergencies, or WW III.
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My father retired in 1954 after 24 years in the Navy. I spent 14 of those years traveling around the country with him. I have an accent, it's southern, only because I moved to the south when I was fourteen and all my father's family is southern. When I go to Hawaii, which is where my mother is from, I sometimes lapse into that accent and if I am around my cousins on that side of the family I find myself combining the two. I had to remember after he retired that the deck was the floor and the bulkhead was the ceiling and these were civilians. I remember WWII better than most because my daddy was transferred to Pearl Harbor in 1943 and since my Mother was from there we finally got passage there. I remember newsreels, gedunks and the PX. We always lived near a military base and I had an ID until I was 22. My Mother had the opportunity to go to Barksdale AFB last year in order to get a Military ID because they were changing her Medical coverage. She said she had plenty of time. I decided to get it over with. I am glad I did because two weeks later 9/11 changed the country. I can remember getting on that base with just my father's DD214. I was surprised that the sentry didn't ask for driver's licence or her ID or the letter telling her to get an ID. In my day it took an act of congress to get on a military base. My favorite TV show is JAG. And, I can still remember telling my son to hit the sack. He learned what the head was from his grandfather. It was great while it lasted.
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