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25 "Army Brat" Things
07-10-13 05:52 PM
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1. What is a “grocery store”? It is, and forever will be, the commissary. Trust me... when you can get your food for 30% on base than off base, you don't deal with grocery stores unless they are having a huge sale. And when the grocery stores off base are having their sales, the Commissary is usually getting it in too. 2. People ask you where you’re from and you don’t even try to explain. “Nowhere. Everywhere. I don’t know.” I don't even know what to tell people. So I just tell them Washington State... that is where most of my family is, so I just call Washington state home, even though I have only lived there for probably 6 of my 19 years. 3. The clothes your parents bought you from the PX made you look like you were a time traveler from the 1980s. But it didn’t matter because all the other kids on base wore the Exact. Same. Thing. Yup. If you wanted to be unique and an individual, you had to go off base to get your stuff. Especially shoes. And leave it to the uncool kid with the high ranking parents with all the money to get the sames shoes you got for the first day of school, and ruin for you by the end of the week. 4. Every school mascot you ever had was The Eagles, The Screaming Eagles, or some variation on that theme. By the time you graduated you’d been to 15 different schools, so you appreciated the continuity. I don't remember many of my schools having a mascot, but when they did, they had something to do with the Eagle. 5. The first song other than the National Anthem you learned all the words to was a pretty hilarious and inappropriate cadence call. “Your ma! Your pa! Your mean - ole - granny - got - a - hole - in - her - panty, got - a - big - behind - like - Frankenstein, now sound off! One, two! Sound off! Three, four!” Sorry. This was the best PG one I could find without break the rules of the Board. 6. Being 10 minutes early for an appointment means you’re late. Man, most people get 10 minutes, or you are eating dirt. Me... even when I was not in the servive, when I was still considered a military brat, it was always considered 15 to 20 minutes early was on time. 7. You judge people who don’t know the phonetic alphabet. C is for cookie? C is for Charlie. GTFO. I saw a Navy Federal Credit 8. You’re freakishly good at bowling. And have an unhealthy knowledge of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service snack bar menu. Bowling alleys and the snack bar: staples of every military base and your after-school routine for years. That was the only thing to do on base. If one of your friends in your group did not have a car so you could go do other things besides bowling, you were stuck bowling. Maybe that is why I got that invite for that traveling amateur professional bowling team... 9. Anyone older than you is “ma’am” or “sir.” Forget that one simple rule, and your face instantly was eating dirt. I don't know if there is any truth to this for me, or if it is just my Southern Hospitality... 10. When you lived overseas, your non-military friends constantly asked if they could have things mailed to your APO/FPO address. AA, AE, and AP are states, y’all. Domestic shipping rates apply. Not going to say much on this one, other than an APO / FPO address is like overseas addresses. 11. You’ve had a regulation haircut and/or GI (birth control) glasses. And you looked freakin’ sexy. Yes. I. Did. My glasses had that little green thing on them. I had all the girls trying them on. And my Medium and Tight stayed fresh. 12. Your parent was called into their commanding officer’s office for reasons that included you being a troublemaker at school. XD. Just a few months ago, my Dad got in trouble becuase my little brother got in trouble at school for being 2 minutes late. That is why you should always be 10 minutes early. XD 13. You’ve taken a few flights that involved sitting in jump seats, wearing your winter jacket at all times, and Humvees in the cargo hold. Carry-ons in the military include armored vehicles. You know... Never flew one in myself, and not to sure I want to... I hear it is really uncomfortable. 14. The phrases “O-dark-30” and “1400 hours” make perfect sense to you. Getting up at 0800 constitutes sleeping in. Shoot.. right now, getting up at 0700 is freaking awesome. Some people get to sleep in until 1100. And either they got it made, or their chain of command just does not care. 15. AFN commercials will forever be the gold standard in campy public service announcements. Do yourself a favor and go watch the Squeakers the Hamster series on YouTube. Man, I remember we would see the TV in the class room, and we would be all like, " SWEET!!! MOVIE DAY!!!". And then the teacher would start the movie, and we would hear that dreadful theme song, and we were like... " When are we ever going to learn? " 16. You’ve eaten a major holiday meal in a mess hall. Rite of passage. Sorry ‘bout it. You know what, Thanksgiving in A I T actually was not that bad. It was actually pretty good to be honest. 17. You always had some MRE’s around the house. In case of nuclear apocalypse. Or camping trips. There are only 3 M R E's that I eat everything out of... the rest are either disgusting, or give everybody the runs. XD 18. Your dad has activated level 99 combat mode in response to a loud noise that turned out to be harmless. Always not embarrassing at all when he destroys your water bottle because he thought it was a tear gas canister. My dad is not even Level 1 Certified like I am. He is more brains that brawn. But there was that one time... *ugh*. Not typing that scary moment out for you guys. 19. You blew up your favorite electronic device by forgetting to use a 110/220 converter. RIP, GameCube. Man, I remember a few years after the P S 2 came out, that the Nintendo 64 was no longer cool. So I got rid of mine. Now... 10 years later, of course I am wishing that I had not done so. 20. You came back to the States after being overseas for a few years and didn’t understand ANY of the cultural references. 21. You immediately dropped whatever you were doing at 1700 each day for retreat to be played. This is taken very seriously in the Army... even if you are not a soldier. It is taken so seriously that if you do not stop you car, and get out, and face where there flag is, you can get a ticket by the MP's ( Military Police ) . 22. You freaked out when you turned 20 because it suddenly meant you only had your military ID and base privileges for one more year. You may have strongly considered enlisting just because of it. This is one of the reasons I enlisted in the Army. Plus... 15 cent cheaper gas helps too, you know. 23. You’ve never had to explain to your non-military friends that you just found out you’re moving. Next week. You’re also the most efficient packer you know. Me and my dad packed a 4 bed, 2 12 bath house in 3 days... entirely, and then loaded everything in a U - HAUL in 12 hours on the 4th day. But moving so much was hard. Once you told your friends, or once they found out, that you were military if you went to an off base school, thay already knew... 3 years, and you were probably going to be gone. 24. Life is not always easy or fair… Life was not fair. You are just finally getting the hang of things... you and you and your friends are just getting close... You and your girlfiend are just starting to get serious... It is not exactly fair. And being an Army brat is never easy. 25. But you are tough, adaptable, good at making friends, and wouldn’t trade your childhood for anything in the world. You had to be tough. It's not easy being an Army brat, or being in the Army as a soldier. You have to be adaptable. Your environment is always changing. You have to be good at making friends. You would not be able to do what you do and get by and deal with life as an Army Brat without being able to make friends. And would I trade my childhood for anything? No. My childhood made me who I am am today, and I wouldn't want to change anything about me. Sure, I had a few mistakes here and there, but if I changed that, how would it change where I am at today? Hooah! Singelli: You wre an Army brat, right? You know that most of this is true, don't you? Cyro Xero: Thought you might like a few laughs, to see how it comes from an Army Brats side of the world. It is, and forever will be, the commissary. Trust me... when you can get your food for 30% on base than off base, you don't deal with grocery stores unless they are having a huge sale. And when the grocery stores off base are having their sales, the Commissary is usually getting it in too. 2. People ask you where you’re from and you don’t even try to explain. “Nowhere. Everywhere. I don’t know.” I don't even know what to tell people. So I just tell them Washington State... that is where most of my family is, so I just call Washington state home, even though I have only lived there for probably 6 of my 19 years. 3. The clothes your parents bought you from the PX made you look like you were a time traveler from the 1980s. But it didn’t matter because all the other kids on base wore the Exact. Same. Thing. Yup. If you wanted to be unique and an individual, you had to go off base to get your stuff. Especially shoes. And leave it to the uncool kid with the high ranking parents with all the money to get the sames shoes you got for the first day of school, and ruin for you by the end of the week. 4. Every school mascot you ever had was The Eagles, The Screaming Eagles, or some variation on that theme. By the time you graduated you’d been to 15 different schools, so you appreciated the continuity. I don't remember many of my schools having a mascot, but when they did, they had something to do with the Eagle. 5. The first song other than the National Anthem you learned all the words to was a pretty hilarious and inappropriate cadence call. “Your ma! Your pa! Your mean - ole - granny - got - a - hole - in - her - panty, got - a - big - behind - like - Frankenstein, now sound off! One, two! Sound off! Three, four!” Sorry. This was the best PG one I could find without break the rules of the Board. 6. Being 10 minutes early for an appointment means you’re late. Man, most people get 10 minutes, or you are eating dirt. Me... even when I was not in the servive, when I was still considered a military brat, it was always considered 15 to 20 minutes early was on time. 7. You judge people who don’t know the phonetic alphabet. C is for cookie? C is for Charlie. GTFO. I saw a Navy Federal Credit 8. You’re freakishly good at bowling. And have an unhealthy knowledge of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service snack bar menu. Bowling alleys and the snack bar: staples of every military base and your after-school routine for years. That was the only thing to do on base. If one of your friends in your group did not have a car so you could go do other things besides bowling, you were stuck bowling. Maybe that is why I got that invite for that traveling amateur professional bowling team... 9. Anyone older than you is “ma’am” or “sir.” Forget that one simple rule, and your face instantly was eating dirt. I don't know if there is any truth to this for me, or if it is just my Southern Hospitality... 10. When you lived overseas, your non-military friends constantly asked if they could have things mailed to your APO/FPO address. AA, AE, and AP are states, y’all. Domestic shipping rates apply. Not going to say much on this one, other than an APO / FPO address is like overseas addresses. 11. You’ve had a regulation haircut and/or GI (birth control) glasses. And you looked freakin’ sexy. Yes. I. Did. My glasses had that little green thing on them. I had all the girls trying them on. And my Medium and Tight stayed fresh. 12. Your parent was called into their commanding officer’s office for reasons that included you being a troublemaker at school. XD. Just a few months ago, my Dad got in trouble becuase my little brother got in trouble at school for being 2 minutes late. That is why you should always be 10 minutes early. XD 13. You’ve taken a few flights that involved sitting in jump seats, wearing your winter jacket at all times, and Humvees in the cargo hold. Carry-ons in the military include armored vehicles. You know... Never flew one in myself, and not to sure I want to... I hear it is really uncomfortable. 14. The phrases “O-dark-30” and “1400 hours” make perfect sense to you. Getting up at 0800 constitutes sleeping in. Shoot.. right now, getting up at 0700 is freaking awesome. Some people get to sleep in until 1100. And either they got it made, or their chain of command just does not care. 15. AFN commercials will forever be the gold standard in campy public service announcements. Do yourself a favor and go watch the Squeakers the Hamster series on YouTube. Man, I remember we would see the TV in the class room, and we would be all like, " SWEET!!! MOVIE DAY!!!". And then the teacher would start the movie, and we would hear that dreadful theme song, and we were like... " When are we ever going to learn? " 16. You’ve eaten a major holiday meal in a mess hall. Rite of passage. Sorry ‘bout it. You know what, Thanksgiving in A I T actually was not that bad. It was actually pretty good to be honest. 17. You always had some MRE’s around the house. In case of nuclear apocalypse. Or camping trips. There are only 3 M R E's that I eat everything out of... the rest are either disgusting, or give everybody the runs. XD 18. Your dad has activated level 99 combat mode in response to a loud noise that turned out to be harmless. Always not embarrassing at all when he destroys your water bottle because he thought it was a tear gas canister. My dad is not even Level 1 Certified like I am. He is more brains that brawn. But there was that one time... *ugh*. Not typing that scary moment out for you guys. 19. You blew up your favorite electronic device by forgetting to use a 110/220 converter. RIP, GameCube. Man, I remember a few years after the P S 2 came out, that the Nintendo 64 was no longer cool. So I got rid of mine. Now... 10 years later, of course I am wishing that I had not done so. 20. You came back to the States after being overseas for a few years and didn’t understand ANY of the cultural references. 21. You immediately dropped whatever you were doing at 1700 each day for retreat to be played. This is taken very seriously in the Army... even if you are not a soldier. It is taken so seriously that if you do not stop you car, and get out, and face where there flag is, you can get a ticket by the MP's ( Military Police ) . 22. You freaked out when you turned 20 because it suddenly meant you only had your military ID and base privileges for one more year. You may have strongly considered enlisting just because of it. This is one of the reasons I enlisted in the Army. Plus... 15 cent cheaper gas helps too, you know. 23. You’ve never had to explain to your non-military friends that you just found out you’re moving. Next week. You’re also the most efficient packer you know. Me and my dad packed a 4 bed, 2 12 bath house in 3 days... entirely, and then loaded everything in a U - HAUL in 12 hours on the 4th day. But moving so much was hard. Once you told your friends, or once they found out, that you were military if you went to an off base school, thay already knew... 3 years, and you were probably going to be gone. 24. Life is not always easy or fair… Life was not fair. You are just finally getting the hang of things... you and you and your friends are just getting close... You and your girlfiend are just starting to get serious... It is not exactly fair. And being an Army brat is never easy. 25. But you are tough, adaptable, good at making friends, and wouldn’t trade your childhood for anything in the world. You had to be tough. It's not easy being an Army brat, or being in the Army as a soldier. You have to be adaptable. Your environment is always changing. You have to be good at making friends. You would not be able to do what you do and get by and deal with life as an Army Brat without being able to make friends. And would I trade my childhood for anything? No. My childhood made me who I am am today, and I wouldn't want to change anything about me. Sure, I had a few mistakes here and there, but if I changed that, how would it change where I am at today? Hooah! Singelli: You wre an Army brat, right? You know that most of this is true, don't you? Cyro Xero: Thought you might like a few laughs, to see how it comes from an Army Brats side of the world. |
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