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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| 09-11-2002, 02:22 PM |
Don
Colonel
Registered: 05-10-2002
Total Posts: 32
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 Re: Those days are gone! (Re: vann)
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... you even know what a hospital corner is and use them. (Actually I learned it in the Coast Guard but still automatically make them when (on rare occasions) I make the bed. Just did it the other day; my side has them, my wife's side does not. Hmmm.)
Don
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| 09-13-2002, 06:30 PM |
CSE
Recruit
Registered: 09-13-2002
Total Posts: 1
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You might be a military brat if... (Re: vann)
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... you actually lived where the phrase "Don't let the bed bugs bite." originated---N.A.S., Argentia, Newfoundland.
... you come home from school to find a completly stange family has moved in with you and you aren't surprise. You lived on the economy, the base was having an air raid drill and this family has been evaced to saftey---your house.
... the greatest shock in your life came when you realized that your father was NOT going to be the pilot of the plane you were on.
... the word "hop" makes you think of travel, not jumping or a dance.
... you remember Alaska before it was a state and Newfoundland before it was Canada.
... your spouse gets embarrassed with you because you begin to speak in whatever the accent is of the place you are visiting.
... (and a Coast Guard one) if you know what the phrase "Come early and beat the rush." REALLY means. The Rush was a Coast Guard cutter that protected the seals from poachers on Canada's eastern coast.
... use your father's old flight logs to figure out when it was you lived "there".
... you fear nothing with 4 legs or less but bugs drive you nuts.
... you still reach for a stick when you go to empty the trash.
... as a military wife, you slept soundly through the artillery barrages that kept your husband awake all night.
... when you visit a battlefield, you don't need to go to the museum first to know what happened there.
... you learned, the hard way, never to look at the old photo albums in the bookcase of the military families you baby-sat for. He had been a photographer for an Army unit that had liberated a concentration camp.
... the version of "The Fighting Lady" you saw on base, at age 9, was the UNEDITED Navy footage. And you didn't even realize it until you saw it again 30 years later.
... your first date was the Marine Corps Ball.
... (and only a girl-brat)if you have ever entered, with the sentry's permission, any military base long after you "retired".
... on 9-11 and your daughter (age 25) was in NYC, you pulled out a map to figure her "co-ordinates" and, knowing her "POD", began a detailed system of trying to "establish communication" with her. All the while, fielding calls from family and friends, comforting your spouse and her sibs, and not falling apart until you had heard her voice.
... when this same child confesses to you that what scared her most were the F-15's and helicopter gunships overhead all the time and you still can't figure out why.
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| 09-16-2002, 04:37 AM |
hahnhihawk
Recruit
Registered: 09-16-2002
Total Posts: 1
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Re: You Might be a Military Brat if . . . (Re: vann)
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You Might be a Military Brat if . . .
... it sounds weird to you that the radio and news announcers don't have ranks
... you find a class (school) reunion relaxing, because you DON'T have to answer the constant question of "Where are you from?"
I have fun when I visit the States... (I stayed in Germany.) When I am asked "Where are you from?", I say "Germany" without (too much of) an accent. They look somewhat bewildered and say "You're not German..." Or, I get compliments on my perfect American accent... ;-) Then I have fun letting them guess what part of the States I am from... (attended DODDS from 2nd to 12th...)
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