I freaking LOVE kei trucks. I’d drive one in a heartbeat.

Why is red light texting an issue?

My paternal grandfather had a subsistence farm in the mountains of NC. Barring two trucks, he bounced around vehicles pretty rapidly. The two that stayed forever were a chevy luv truck (that he thought was stupid initially, then drove it, loved it, and owned it until it crumbled to rust), and one of these J10’s in…

I fault trump neither for choosing this NSX nor for choosing Marla. I very definitely do not fault Marla for keeping the car for longer than she kept the Donald.

Good answer.

Cadence and delivery are dead giveaways.

As an investigator, I use my malleable accent to my advantage. Aligning you cadence and diction to someone while talking with manufactures a feeling of rapport, which is handy in hostile witness interviews and the like. I do it completely without thinking, and thus my accent is completely fluid.

They say, “No one hates war like a soldier.” I would add that right behind that soldier is his or her family. No, we don’t go to war, but we watch as mom or dad or little brother, son, daughter boards that boat or plane to some far off land knowing full well that we may never see that person again. I’ll never forget…

Our previous house was a townhouse and I lived there for fifteen years without ever feeling like it was home. It was too much like living in (bad) quarters. We have a little single-family place with a big fenced in yard that you’d never see on any base. It’s as close to home as I think I’ll ever get.

I have noticed that, overall, military brats can fight.

If you’re talking housing, then, yes, enormously. Officer housing is (usually) way nicer than enlisted housing. Lower enlisted housing isn’t quite the projects, but it’s not good.

A friend of mine is the son of a very prominent skipper in the submarine fleet. Worked his whole life to be a naval officer. Signed, swore, and doing his first summer rotation during college they found blood in his urine. A few more tests were done and it was, “Thanks, but no thanks,” and he was sent on his way. he…

Absolutely. I find this sort of thing fascinating. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

Reading this article also made me think of my own mindset toward the house. I have a house with a yard and a fence, and it’s like my own little post. I’m on the kids constantly about shutting the gates because I simply CANNOT STAND for the gates to be unsecure. Doesn’t matter that they’re just held by a little stirrup…

I still don’t really get it. Most civilian childhoods sound so damned boring. It’s like watching movies growing up I never understood why so many of them were situated around bored small-town kids. Then I spent some time in a small town with absolutely nothing to do, and could suddenly understand both the shenanigans…

I had a fascinating conversation with a linguist a few years back. We were talking about something business-related and he asked if he could ask me a personal question. This was followed by asking if I was an army brat. Really interesting conversation because apparently there is a military brat accent. It’s an…

So, for the most part, I could’ve written this article. We didn’t do as many tours in Germany, but that was because my dad was Airborne. That meant he had no more than two duty stations between going back to Ft Bragg. If he’d stayed in any longer, probably would’ve gone back to Bragg again (Not complaining. Ft Bragg…

I went to thirteen schools before I graduated high school. Honestly though, I feel bad for you. Seriously, don’t feel too bad for us military brats. We had a big support network made up of all the kids living around us who’d moved a dozen times too. You had the moves but without the support. You had alienation without…

I can’t speak for others, but I was HEAVILY recruited as a high school senior. Apparently a study had been done showing that the children of lifers like my dad were FAR more likely to become lifers themselves if they joined. West Point, US Navy, and the Air Force were all pursuing me. I decided that the military was…

Quite a bit. Not all by any means, but there were officers’ kids that didn’t want to associate with the children of enlisted men, and likewise there were officers’ spouses that were a bit on the snooty sides around the spouses of career enlisted.