Pros and cons of being an Army Brat

Being an army brat an army wife sister of an army officer n having many realtives in army i have a vast experience of army life and actually i simply love every part of it, wait, no not every part actually yes i must say their are many benefits of being an army brat but as we all know every rose has its thorn so ill be discussing my experiences in this blog.

Trying to have a positive approach i want to go with pros of being army brat first.

HAVING A BATMAN(chacha)
    Yes having a chacha we simply have our doremon to whom we will concern in every need outside our house. You can say they are second wives to our fathers and second moms to us yet our moms have no rivalry towards them on the other hand they also have some kind of gratitude and attachment towards them because they always feel so lonely and depressed without this doremon in a person but reason here is not that chacha himself but the house chores he perform, the helping hand he offers and the way he take care of us the kids is actually the reason behind our mothers attachment towards him and also why they feel offended whenever that chacha wants a leave.

ADAPTABLITY
   This is the best quality we get being our fathers an army personel because every 2 yrs we have to move with our all luggage to a new place new school. We have to make new friends. Have to adjust in new environment and adapt to it somehow without thinking about our feelings for the place we left. Yes its really difficult i used to cry when i was kid and even when i was in college and we got posted from quetta to lahore it took me about 6 months to cope with the new environment.

FREE JAUNTING AND TRAVEL ALLOWNCE
    One of the plus points of being an army officer is unexpected and sometimes unwanted jaunting to new places every two years. This frequent travelling at gives us opportunity to visit new places, know new cultures and get accustomed to them and also make us emotionally strong, independant and give more exposure. Our travelling if official is half paid by military another plus point.

VVIPS
    Thats the feeling mostly civilians cant have and actually they envy us about it🤣. Our cousins visit us to get this previlige. The salutes we get in our parents unit and at army posts make us feel vip.

GUESTROOMS
    Visitin any other city n goin to a hotel is not our thing. We havee our guest rooms mostly booked by some coursemate of your father and they are quite efficient rooms.

CLUB MEMBERSHIP
   Golf club, Dsom, artillery club "naam to suna hoga" well these are ur recreational spots riding, swimming, jogging, gym, squash club, cinema, tumbola, musical night etc etc they literally give us oppotunity to learn everything and we just need a membership card which is in very reasonable price for us. Besides that no shadi halls work for us as grounds of these messes are our shadi halls☺.

PROUD OF OUR FATHERS
    We as kids are always proud of our fathers and exactly know the role they are playing for solidarity and protection of this country. Thats why we can never hear anybody spit something bad about army we take it personal.

PATRIOTISM
   Yes its in our genes we hear many badass stories from our fathers and it in our blood the love and devotion we see in our environment as our driver batman sweeper all are military servants and devoted to country.

FREE MEDICAL
    This is a blessing for us because we dont need to pay for seasonal flues and medicines and i must say sometimes as kids when one sibling was sick we all went to cmh with some small issues as an outing. Talking seriously my mom suffered 4 yrs from cancer and that treatment was free of cost for us. I saw many ppl denying treatment during my visit with my mom as it was so expensive that they found rather dying better than selling their homes.

DAFCOM AND PASCOM
    They are no magic spells from harrypotter they are phones alloted to army officers. As an army brat its a struggle to describe code detail to urr civilian friend. The other common thing is extensions in living room bedroom and drawing room so when u r talkung some1 would pickup from other room and u say "rekho m bat kr rae hn" and if its ur father he will say "rekhn beta i hav to talk"🙂.

Now coming to cons of being an army brat personally as im so in love with this occupation i dont find many negative points but some are;

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
    Aaaaaa my father is from sahiwal my mother is from gujranwala i was born in sialkot and now my most of the relatives and father is in lahore. So i dont know from where exactly i am. I think u have felt the pain.

NO BEST FRIENDS
    Moving from one place to another in 2 to 3 yrs lead us to having no childhood and best friends. We tend to be good friends with so many ppl but no one close friend.

LIVING WITHOUT OUR FATHER
   Many times we have to live without our fathers when they are posted to operational areas or when they are on exercise. My father was in signals so we had this army phone that was freewhich was always busy as our father was talking to our mother.

GYPSIES
    We dont have any place which belong to us no city is ours no home is ours. When we mature we have many homes inwhich we lived throughout our lives in many cities but we endup in totally different home after retirement.

PAY PACKAGE
    When our fathers were army officers pay scales were not as good as now. We really felt financially drained from people of other professions. And yes when my father was second lietinent his pay was 1200😑😑 so damn poor we were😑😑.

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