Military brat

[2][3][4][5] In many countries where there are military brat subcultures, the child's family moves great distances from one non-combat assignment to another for much of their youth.

[2][3][4][6] War-related family stresses, including long-term war-related absence of a parent, as well as war aftermath issues, are common features of military brat life in some countries, although the degree of war-involvement of individual countries with military brat subcultures may vary.

[2] Military-dependent subcultures, also known as camp followers,[citation needed] have existed (under various other names) in many parts of the world for thousands of years.

[2][6][10][12] The home countries of a number of Military Brat subcultures have highly mobile (modern Nomadic) lifestyles, or at least significant overseas (or distant-internal) assignments for career military families and their children and adolescents while growing up, including Canada,[2] Britain,[6][13] France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines,[5] Australia,[4] New Zealand[4] and the United States.

[10] Some ex-military dependents have found that their mobile upbringing has been massively influential in determining their eventual career in adulthood.