Army brat is a colloquial term referring to a child born to a member of the US Army. This term especially refers to the children of career military parents who grow up traveling from base to base, with no long term home. It should be stated that this term is generally not pejorative. A colloquialism is an informal expression, that is, an expression not used in formal speech or writing. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... A word or phrase is pejorative or derogatory (sometimes misspelled perjorative) if it expresses contempt or disapproval; dyslogistic (noun: dyslogism) is used synonymously (antonyms: meliorative, eulogistic, noun eulogism). ...
Army (4-6) enters Saturday's game riding the crest of a four-game win streak while Navy (6-4) has already accepted an invitation to battle Colorado State in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 22 in San Diego.
His 23 completions were the most complete passes for an Army quarterback in the series, breaking his own record of 20 set last year, while his 255 yads in the air shattered the previous mark (190) by Earle Mulrane in 1978.
Army linebacker Barrett Scruggs wore on his uniform the actual patch of a soldier who was recently killed in action in Afghanistan.
Basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal, raised by a now-retired NCO, is undoubtedly one of the best-known Armybrats.
Like thousands of other Armybrats, Shaq faced the comings and goings, the hellos and goodbyes, that are a way of life for military families.
Then there's the issue many Armybrats try not to think about - that at any time, their mothers or fathers could be deployed to a war zone and placed in mortal danger.
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