- if you actually like the clothes at the PX and don't mind that 100 other people are wearing the same thing.
- if you wish you were back at the last place you were stationed and are only 10.
- if the question "where are you from?" is answered with "I'm kinda from all over the place."
- if you are amazed at people who have never left their home town.
- if you are commonly asked, "Is it hard always moving around?" and you don't know anything different.
- if you go to a grocery store but insist on calling it a commissary.
- if you have ever bagged groceries at the commissary on payday.
- if you had/still have hospital corners on your bed.
- if you don't really know the answer to the question "what is your home town."
- if you ever feared turning 21 because they would take your id card away.
- if you have spent more time on a military base than in a real town even though you've been a civilian all your life.
- if you ever got restricted to quarters or put on KP duty as a kid.
- if you had a father who was always telling you to "Go police up your room!"
- if you have ever been "dropped" for your grades at school.
- if you have to explain that being born in Germany does not make you German.
- if you know what "the land of the big PX" means.
- if you actually miss shopping at AAFES or the PX.
- if you have ever had to have an ID card to get back home from "down range."
- if you have ever asked "CPT Smith, can Tommy come out and play?"
- if you graduated from 12th grade and it was your 13th school.
- if you had to tell your math teacher last school was teaching subtraction, new school was on division and you missed multiplication
- if you live in one state and your father/mother lives in another because they were newly stationed there.
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