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Atlanta Area Military Brats
The Atlanta Area Military Brats is an informal group of brats who like to get together from time to time to meet "off-line."

It's an unusual gathering, because instead of people asking "where are you from?", everyone asks, "where all have you lived?"

We held our last gathering on September 22, 2001. For details and photos taken at the event, please click here.

If you have not signed up with us before, please use the Signup Form (below) to let us know you are interested in connecting with other Military Brats in the Atlanta area. All information is confidential. We will use your e-mail address only to send you updates on events and to let you know about other Military Brat events of interest.

Be sure to double-check your e-mail address! A few people have signed up and given wrong e-mail addresses making it impossible to send out any notices.

Atlanta Area Military Brats Signup Form

Note: this form is for signing up to be notified of future gatherings and is not for sending an RSVP for any upcoming events.

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We need volunteers to help out with the group. If you would like to help in some way, select from the list or indicate your interest in the Other field below.

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Operation Footlocker
by Vann Baker

What is green, covered with stickers and filled with memories and icons which only a Military Brat can understand? Operation Footlocker.

We've all grown up with footlockers, but Operation Footlocker doesn't travel with one person from destination to another�it travels to brat reunions, events and military bases as a mobile memory project.

Operation Footlocker is a grassroots effort to celebrate the shared cultural identity of Military Brats and grew out a discussion in the spring of 1996 on the Military Veterans of America site within America Online.

Mary Edwards Wertsch, author of the book Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, and one of the participants in the discussion, first conceived the idea of taking a real footlocker and sending it around the country as a way of gathering memorabilia and bringing brats together. Reta Jones Nicholson provided the first footlocker and was the catalyst who brought Operation Footlocker from discussion to realty.

Operation Footlocker is a volunteer effort and requests can be made to have the footlocker shipped to for brat events or sharing brat history with the general public.

For more information on appearances or to bring the Footlocker to your event, visit the Operation Footlocker web site.

This article first appeared in On The Move, Volume 1, Number 1.