Military Word Analysis

BRAT seems like an offensive word, but believe me, it isn’t. The term BRAT is actually an acronym that means Born, Raised and Trained. Being born into a Military family on a military base, more specifically Fort Hood, I have lived in the military for 15 years, which is 83% of my childhood. Being raised in the military can also change to how a person reacts to something. For example, I had a non-military friend who was afraid that she would move over the summer and my other non-military friends were also afraid of this happening, but as I was raised in the military I was used to seeing friends come and go. The Trained part means that kids are trained to follow the military life like being polite to those of higher rank and occasionally learning Military Terms. BRATs also spend almost all of their childhood on bases as they are essentially just small cities that have a barbed wire fence around them. The four words that all BRATs don’t want to hear are “I’m getting deployed.” I recall after Haiti was struck by the earthquake in 2010 my mother was sent down to help with the relief effort and I didn’t want her to leave. Additionally my father was also in the military and had actually been deployed to Iraq, he still has the blanket. Seeing how I have moved around so much that it feels unnatural not to move to
For example, a commissary is a grocery store found on posts or bases. A PX (or Express) is the main shopping center and it usually has one large store, a food court with at least 6 restaurants, those cart shops you see at the mall that have items for sale, and a few smaller shops. A phrase that is also from the military is "Good enough for government work." This phrase is derived from the fact that something has met the minimum of rigorous standards but now is ironic because it is now used to refer to poorly executed