Serving Military Brats Since 1995!"
Check out our NEW website . . .
Our "new" and improved website has everything you need
to re-connect with your Military Brats friends and heritage.
"Invisible No More."
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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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| 09-06-2002, 10:43 PM |
rj
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Registered: 09-06-2002
Total Posts: 11
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 Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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LOL That is SO true. My friends sometimes look at me strange when I start doing that...Well let's see, we were living in Millington for the last time, so it took place between '83 & '85.
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Oh, my yes! My wife and I are both Brats, and we confound our friends by doing just that: "Well, let's see, that took place while we were at Ft. Hamilton" or "We were at Ft. Lee when Elvis appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show"!
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| 09-06-2002, 11:15 PM |
rj
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Registered: 09-06-2002
Total Posts: 11
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 Those days are gone! (Re: vann)
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I struck me just how much of a military brat I was when, after spending so much of my life (up to college) on military posts and then 4 years in the Marines, I finally gave up my military ID. I could no longer hit the commissary or PX (BX). I felt a sense of both loss and outrage! Here were these "youngsters", newly initiated into the military, going onto MY bases, and yet I (who spent my life on them!) could no longer do so.
I still feel a sense of belonging to the military, even though it has been 30 years plus since I got out. I felt at home again when I visited Parris Island a few years ago - just a visitor. But was it grand to pass the MPs at the gate!
Semper Fi
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| 09-08-2002, 10:12 AM |
MikeZulu
Subscriber - 5 Star General
Registered: 04-20-2002
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| 09-10-2002, 05:41 PM |
MikeZulu
Subscriber - 5 Star General
Registered: 04-20-2002
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| 09-11-2002, 02:17 PM |
Don
Colonel
Registered: 05-10-2002
Total Posts: 32
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Maybe I should explain my feelings. I Could smell PI from Yamassee. My wife and daughter were with me in my motorhome an our plan was tour PI. I remember the M.P. sergeant who met us at the train station and what he did to us recruits on that red brick siding at the train station.
I broke out in cold sweats and started to shiver. It scared the hell out of my family. I spent 13 weeks in boot camp and was sent back for 4 more weeks becauses I was in the top 2% of the graduating platoon for special duty... I never learned; I kept volunteering.
I just can't go there and I can't touch the Viet Nam War Memorial. I guess that I am only an American patriot with with
a humble upbringing and basic values.
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I had an opportunity to return to where I had attended Coast Guard Boot Camp 17 years before. The Boot Camp had been closed and the barracks were now offices. In fact, my desk was about 20 feet from where I had first been stripped, cursed, and yelled at. We converted the old laundry room into a library/conference room and the troops gave me a tile as a momento when I left.
Walking to lunch one day my wife (she worked for the Coast Guard at the time) asked me if I ever thought when I was in Boot Camp if I would be walking down the street as a Lieutenant Commander. I told her I had only hoped to be able to walk like a human being!
Don
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