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Originally Posted by KevinP73
Anyone experience/suffer from any "Brat Issues" such as a "Them/US" mentallity, or the "Lack of roots" issue? What about merging into mainstream society?
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Nope; we lived on base for about the first 12 years but eventually we moved off base. To be honest - I did like it better on base (it was more fun).
It was a bit of a strange transition though moving into the civilian population. We lived next to a Marine from Camp Pendleton - not sure what in the world he was doing living in Riverside but he made the commute. In the schools on the bases that I attended the only 'them/us' relation ship was enlisted kids vs officer's kids. Man those officer's kids thought their sh%$ didn't stink.
I value my childhood and what I learned from living in the Military a great deal. Over time I have been formulating the opinion that there are probably three types of people in the world. Leaders in Uniform, Leaders out of uniform and sheep.
It is easy and appropriate to romanticize military service.