Military Family Traditions

Is it too farfetched that children of military personnel have their own subculture? Military Brats are children of active military personal that move don’t have a set home they live in. They are actively moving from state to state and from country to country. Despite this sounding like this sound like someone who just moves around a lot, there is a whole lot more to Military Brats. Military Brats are in fact, a subculture that have a real presence in our society and have their own struggles they face as individuals.

Throughout many years, military deployment has affected the family system. Especially young children are effected by their parents shipping overseas since they are still are trying to figure out how to cope without guidance during their development into adult years. In this particular study, researchers examined adolescents between the ages of 12-18 to determine their thoughts about their parents going into war. More specifically, researchers wanted to study the children’s experiences with ambiguous loss within their military families. Researchers hope to find ways in prevention and intervention in order to reduce the feeling of uncertainty within adolescents.

Being a military child has challenges all in its own, but being a Coast Guard child has its difficulties also. My schooling has been affected and so has my social life, but that is all part of the deal.

There is a large amount of military families around the world. About Forty- three percent of active military members have children (Website). These children face so many challenges and struggles in their life while having a parent in the military. Children of Active duty military members exhibit anxiety, depression and stress just as much as the service members and spouses experience. For instance the children experience going through multiple deployments, long separations, frequent moves and awkward reunions when their parents return home from deployment. Even more so if the parent has been physically or mentally traumatized from overseas.

In the Army and throughout every branch there are certain customs and courtesies that every soldier and military member must follow in order for there to be order and discipline on a daily basis. Customs and courtesies are put in to place to show respect for Non Commissioned Officers and for Officers of all rank.

Culture of a nation is manifested and influenced by a number of factors. National psyche and traits being the most pronounced ones. Military culture , to a certain extent , is in harmony with the national culture, however, it has its own impulses and dynamics. It incorporates obedience that curtails individual freedom or at times it may be at tangent with the socio-cultural values of a society ; Military culture of British – Indian Army ,as inherited by us is a case in point here. Philosophy of our present military outlets draws strength from history , organisational infrastructure , uniform , traditions social moorings and a host of other factors which , despite numerous changes , is still undergoing the process of evolution.

There is only a small percentage of people that grow up in Military Families in the US today. I grew up in this unique community of military families moving around every two years or less. I lived all over the United States and in South Korea and travelled all over the world. As I moved and traveled, I met people from different cultures, religions, backgrounds, and walks of life. These experiences taught me to not judge a person by their appearance. I learned to be open to new cultures and ways of thinking that were different then my own which taught me how to appreciate and respect those differences.

We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Approach (PRISMA) for generating and systematically reviewing and analyzing original published studies on military families, their children’s behaviors, and parenting interventions. Key definitions and MeSH terms used were military personnel, parent, parenting, child-rearing, veteran, and parent-child intervention. Inclusion criteria for this review consisted the study needed to be original research addressing parenting aspects of military connected families and their children with preschool children as the part or central focus of the sample, or testing an intervention study that addressed these concepts. Exclusion criteria consisted of omitting studies of military connected families without preschool children, and non-English-language and non US military samples. After determining the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the terms were entered into PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, PsychInfo, Web of Science, and EMbase for the years 2001-2014, yielding over 11,800 records. Further search within the reference lists and bibliographies of the analyzed studies and previous review articles on similar subjects revealed two additional studies that were included in the final review. This resulted in 21 published studies meeting criteria. Please see figure 1 for details of research synthesis method.

Everyone knows that character who lost his or her honor and needs to capture or kill the main character/characters to restore their honor. Military/family honor has many differences compared to movie/story honor, so this passage will talk about the tradition and loyalty that's is around military/family honor and compares to movie/story honor. In the end, you will see that honor is a well-used tradition and that there are many ways to earn honor in everyday life.

Quite a few of them must also cope with having a parent who returns from duty profoundly changed by what went on overseas. Children's reactions to a parent's deployment may differ by child, and more broadly, by a child's developmental stage, age, and presence of any pre existing mental or behavioral issues. Children of very young age may exhibit separation anxiety, temper tantrums, and bad eating habits. Kids who are in school during their parent’s deployment sometimes experience a decline in academic performance. They can also have mood changes and physical complaints. Children in the adolescent stage may act out and become angry, or become distant and show signs of apathy. In young children ages 3-8, the mental health of the at-home parent is often a key factor affecting the child's distress level. If the parent is noticeably stressed and emotionally unstable it will then start to affect the child at a more higher risk of having psychological and behavioral problems. Children are not the only ones in the household affected by the deployment of a parent or loved one. Wives and or husbands have a hard if not harder battle than the children of deployment stress

I was not a military brat, the child of a person in the military, however I attended four different elementary schools before entering the fifth grade. I cannot say it was something easy; I rather think that destiny was preparing me to take care of my own military brats. Non-military families generally think that military brats will have problems adapting to new places with constant moves however, I have found through observation, personal experience, and research that they develop good coping mechanisms to adapt and become resilient. Constant moves are not easy. Children get sad and sometimes it takes time to adapt, but over time, and with the right support they learn to cope and become resilient.

When a parent is deployed to serve at war, a child faces many hardships in his well-being. The main problem is that early children face many social, emotional, and physical problems when a parent goes to war and returns with a health issue. Children under age of five are developing negative behaviors, for example Home Front Alert: The Risk Facing Young Children In Military Families states that “children in military families with a deployed parent may experience stress, anxiety, and difficult coping, as well as academic problems” (Murphey, 2013, p. 4). This reveals that absent parents are not fulfilling the child’s cognitive needs, which plays an important in their health. Thus, children

Military families make sacrifices for us on a daily basis. Men and women are fighting for our rights and protecting us from dangers we can’t possibly begin to comprehend. Military families sacrifice their own time with each other to protect the country we live in. They risk their lives every day to keep us safe from harm. Although it is very hard to repay the debt to these heroic families, we can at least show our appreciation to them by doing simple yet meaningful deeds.

Coming home can be a very emotional time for the soldiers themselves as well as the family. F. Scott states “Its’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, feels the same, smells the same. You realize what has changed is you.” This quote shows what it’s like to return home and notice what has remained constant and what has altered. Also “In a way you are doing things that you have done many times before, but it has become completely foreign to you. When you see your wife she is unfamiliar to you. When you first see her (…) her hair has changed or she has new interests. It kinda feels like a first date (…) (Davis, “How Do Military Veterans Feel When They Return Home from Combat”). Here Davis is trying to describe the effort to fit in again, like changing from a school to another then back to the first; but instead of random people it’s your family. Many things become unknown and many things have switched. From the people you know to who you used to know. Davis also says “When returning home you often don’t mesh well with your family. They do things you don’t understand (…) mostly because they have grown very independent

An article titled "How Deployment Stress Affects Children and Families: Research Findings" estimated that “by the end of 2008, 1.7 million American Service Members had served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF).” Each person is different. They experience and interpret situations unique to their personality that varies depending on the person, but war produces the same problems for members of the nuclear family. War creates a cloud of worry and anxiety. “Parents of [military personnel] often have misgivings (Lediaev).” These reservations and