Posted on 04/25/2006 6:31:15 PM PDT by SandRat
BTTT
I started first grade in Poitiers, France in 1958. Anybody else out there went to school in Poitiers?
I wasn't saying that all families were like that at all. I just saw far too many instances of husbands and wives cheating on each other the second that the other went TDY, to the field, or on a deployment. This, among other things, is why I refused to even consider getting married and starting a family while I was in the Army. For those that it isn't a problem, God bless.
Brat and proud of it as it honors my father's 27 years of service to our country.
Same here....my dad was an AF lifer - retired when I was 21 after 26 years service. We moved home to Mobile and I left after 6 months and went to work for the AF at Eglin AFB...missed being around the military environment...just retired after 36 years working for the federal government. I guess counting my first 21 years as an AF brat, my total time with the federal government was 55 years!!! And I also attended 12 schools before I finally graduated from Atwater (Calif) HS in 1968. I've always been proud of being a military brat and wouldn't have traded that experience for anything in the world. BTW, my folks are celebrating 56 years in Sept!
Please add me to your ping for Military Brats - AF brat & proud of it....
I went to 4th-6th grades at RAF Bruntingthorp....no longer in exist! My brother graduated from John C. Marshall HS in Ankara, Turkey in 1970.
not me - I love his "gruffness"!
I thought I had it bad: 14 schools before graduating high school. Hm.
My wife read the book and had soooo many "Aha! That explains it!" moments.
I was a military (Navy) brat for the first 16 years of my life, and then I turned around at 21 and joined up myself. I should be retiring from the Reserve sometime next year (Lord willing and the creek don't rise). I guess insanity really is hereditary...
Military kids are the worst...
;-)
I know you couldln't have been saying everyone. I think the problem is we tend to notice bad behavior more than good (natural human instinct). And, I guess that any job that takes a spouse away for extended periods of time has a higher rate of cheating and even divorce. I do know that the 3 lifers I know well all had long lasting marriages and more or less normal kids.
:)
susie
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