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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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| 07-23-2002, 12:58 PM |
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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If you refuse to go grocery shopping without eating first. That commercial that says, "Don't shop when you're hungry - no, no, no" still runs through your head. When you tell civilian friends about it, they look at you like you're crazy.
You have to explain why you lived in Europe and when you say your mother was DOD Civilian, you have to explain even more.
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For the first few years we lived in Japan they wouldn't even allow kids into the Commissary. If kids were brought to the store at alll they waited in the lobby area (I recall a couple big couches there.) Since we went to Japan when I was seven, I was probably 12 or so before I even remember seeing the inside of a grocery store.
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| 07-23-2002, 05:29 PM |
Chico
Recruit
Registered: 07-23-2002
Total Posts: 2
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| 07-23-2002, 06:31 PM |
Chico
Recruit
Registered: 07-23-2002
Total Posts: 2
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 Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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If you couldn't wait to get back to the States to:
- see some "real" TV commercials
- see your favorite TV show season in "real time" as opposed to being a season or two behind
- see movies on opening day instead of 3 mos later
- go to the mall for trendy clothes
- have more than one American channel
- watch HBO
- catch up on all of the new stuff
...If you knew of at least a dozen kids on base who had the same tennis shoes (used to hate that Athletic Club brand) and 3 to 4 outfits as you
...If relatives from the States periodically sent care boxes of your favorite brands of stuff/food/clothing
...If you remember counting more than a dozen BMWs, Mercedes, Alfa Romeos, or Porsches on the road every day and rarely saw Fords or Chevys
...If you played Manhunt all day across base growing up
...If it was a shock to discover how undisciplined and unorderly civilian high school was
...If you had to use gestures and sign language to fill in for the language barrier when playing with your foreign friends
...If you used to help your dad train for PT
...If you know what it's like to play darts in the barracks or basketball with the GI's at the gym
...If at least one family appliance "blew up" in a 110/220 conversion
...If you can pick up a conversation with just about anyone based on where they are from because you've lived in their region
...If you legally topped over 100 mph on the Autobahn
...If you watched XXX shows on regular access television in Germany
...If you always had computers & field trips every other month at your school
...If you had to wait on your furniture to arrive and hope nothing got lost
...If you've been on the Economy with friends from base and been called "Crazy Americans"
...If you've read the operator's manual for a tank or M-16
...If you really did go to the dentist every 3 mos as a child
...If you remember that kid who got into so much trouble at school that he had to be shipped back to the States to live with his Aunt
...If you understood COLA's well before you were of working age
& if you miss paying no sales tax on base
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| 07-24-2002, 11:20 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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If you couldn't wait to get back to the States to:
- see some "real" TV commercials
- see your favorite TV show season in "real time" as opposed to being a season or two behind
- see movies on opening day instead of 3 mos later
- go to the mall for trendy clothes
- have more than one American channel
- watch HBO
- catch up on all of the new stuff
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In Japan (1959-1966) we had no American channel. Movies and shows were dubbed so in, say Combat, both the Americans and Germans spoke Japanese. Imagine Superman flying in and then spouting Japanese in a high-pitched voice. Singing was in English and cartoons were easy enough to follow though "Popeye" came out more like "Poopeye". In 1964 we watched the Tokyo Olympics on TV with english analysis coming over the AFRTS radio. One positive aspect is we probably didn't watch much TV.
When we got back to the states we enjoyed watching commercials becuase the were in English.
Don
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| 07-29-2002, 01:17 AM |
Sara Brown
Captain
Registered: 07-23-2002
Total Posts: 13
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You're a teen age girl and the MP at the gate won't let the townie boys in without calling your Dad for permission.
You're a teen age girl and go to the USA club and the guys won't talk to you because they are in your father's company.
You go to the base and see a parade and start to cry because you can picture you Dad marching the boys and calling cadence.
You go to the Cemetary at Ft. Sam in San Antonio and the markers name a lot of the parents of people you have known including your own parents, a couple of uncles, etc.
Your Grandchildren can't understand why you have chill bumps when you see a convoy while you are wondering which war they are traing for now.
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