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Military brats grow up moving from base to base as they follow their parent or parents to new assignments. [9] Sometimes living on base, sometimes off, the base in both cases is often the center of military brat life, where shopping, recreation, schools and the military community form a string of temporary towns for military brats as they grow ...
Many military brats report difficulty in identifying where they belong [1] [8] [11] (due to a lifestyle of constantly moving, and also immersion in military culture, and in many cases, also foreign cultures, as opposed to the civilian culture of their native countries, while growing up) [11] and frequently feel like outsiders in relation to the ...
Wertsch wrote the book Military Brats: Legacies of Growing Up Inside the Fortress (1991) that studied and analyzed the lives of 80 American military brats. Through this process, her book identifies military brats as a hidden American subculture, and details patterns in this population along sociological and psychological lines.
Donna Lynn Musil [1] (born April 15, 1960) is an American documentary filmmaker, writer, and activist exploring the subculture of U.S. military brats.She wrote and directed the 2006 documentary Brats: Our Journey Home, [2] a film about growing up the child of a military family and the effect it has on that child's adult life.
Military Brats and Other Global Nomads: Growing Up in Organization Families. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 229– 253. ISBN 978-0-275-97266-0. Cottrell, Ann Baker (2011). Explaining Differences: TCKs and Other CCKs, American and Japanese TCKs in Writing Out of Limbo:International Childhoods, Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids.
Yarros’ first book series, Flight & Glory, tells the stories of several couples who either serve in the military or are in military families.Full Measures follows army brat Ember as she finds ...
This generic category is enumerated in great detail for U.S. military members. [1] The term "military brat" is also commonly used in military culture to mean a military dependent who is either a child or a teenager. [2] [3] [4] The term is not an insult but carries connotations of respect and affection. Currently the U.S. Department of Defense ...
The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay. In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam, he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of a trench and step into enemy machine-gun fire.”