army brat
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Munn, who grew up an army brat in a family that moved frequently during her childhood, said she savored “Your Friends & Neighbors” for its scathing commentary on the uppermost class of American society.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
In a 2019 interview with American Cinematographer, which named her one of the year’s rising stars, she described herself as an "army brat" drawn to movies because "there wasn’t that much to do outside."
From Fox News • Oct. 25, 2021
It was a meteoric rise for a former army brat who, only a few years earlier, had dropped out of high school in Vancouver to become an actor in Los Angeles.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2020
If this wrestling dynasty has a founding father, he got his start winning base championships as a “bashful” army brat living in the then West German city of Augsburg.
From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2015
He was an army brat, and joined up.
From Economist • May 17, 2012