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  • A child of someone in the Navy who usually moves around from base to base, bringing their kids along for the ride to state to state, wherever there parents are posted.
  • child of a member of the U.S. army. Synonyms: air force brat, marine brat, military brat, navy brat. http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/navy%20brat A "military brat" (and various brat derivatives) is a term for a person whose parent or parents have served full-time in the armed forces during the person's childhood. In conventional usage, the word "brat" used alone may be derogatory; in a military context, however, it is neither a subjective nor a judgmental term for most, and it is a term in which many in the military community are comfortable with. In the United Kingdom, the term "pad brat" is also used. Although the term "military brat" is used in other English-speaking countries, only the United States has studied its military brats as an identifiable demographic. This group is shaped by frequent moves, absence of a parent, authoritarian family dynamics, strong patriarchal authority, the threat of parental loss in war, and the militarization of the family unit. While non-military families share many of these same attributes, military culture is unique due to the tightly knit communities that perceive these traits as normal. Although they did not choose to belong to it, military culture can have a long-term impact on brats. As adults, military brats can share many of the same positive and negative traits developed from their mobile childhoods. Having had the opportunity to live around the world, military brats can have a breadth of experiences unmatched by most teenagers. Regardless of race, religion, nationality, or gender, brats might identify more with other highly mobile children than with non-mobile ones. A few can struggle to develop and maintain deep, lasting relationships, and can feel like outsiders to U.S. civilian culture, but most assimilate quickly and well as they have to do so with each move. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_brat Military brats have lower delinquency rates, higher achievement scores on standardized tests, and higher median IQ than their civilian counterparts. They are more likely to have a college degree (60% v 24%) and possess an advanced degree (29.1% v 5%). While these rates are higher than the general U.S. population, they are lower than those of non-brat Third Culture Kids (84–90% college degree and 40% graduate degree).
  • A young, male sex slave for the some of the more sexually lonely members of the US Navy, usually forcefully drafted from remote regions of developing countries and unofficially localised to one particular ship.
  • A friend of mine was - and a brat in the true sense! Spoilt, snobbish but couldn't help it as she had someone to wait on her hand and foot, all the time! Her father was quite high up in the army, I understand.

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