Military brat is an informal term for a child who has one or more parents who serves or served full-time in the military. It implies that such an upbringing is essentially different from that experienced by those in the community at large. It can be an insult or a compliment, depending on the context.
In the US, being a military brat particularly implies:
that you moved frequently as a child because your family was stationed at new locations every year or two
attended many different schools and never established strong roots in a community.
exposure to military discipline and authority from early childhood, which usually leads to comfort in dealing with institutional authority (but occasionally leads to rebellion against it).
Third Culture Kid is a more general term for this phenomenon. It carries connotations of having a stricter upbringing than many people. Third Culture Kid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Militarybrat is an informal term in American English for a child who has one or both parents who serves or served full-time in the military.
Although brat is usually taken to mean a spoiled child, militarybrats are usually considered more disciplined than their civilian peers.
Child of Vietnam Veteran and militarybrat, Michelle Ferguson-Cohen, wrote and illustrated the first children's picture books to help militarybrats coping with the deployment of a parent.
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