Vanessa Lachey Quotes

I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

My dad has been in the military for 35 years. My brother's in the Air Force. I'm familiar with what it's like being in a military family - the unusual traumas you carry around with you.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.

Military children don't make foreign policy but they live it.

My dad was in the Army, and we moved, I think, eight times before I was in the seventh grade. We landed in Tallahassee when my dad retired from the Army and started working for the state.

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

I was a military brat; we moved all around.

I was born in Kentucky and, while my family has deep roots there, I was an Air Force brat, and we followed my father to postings all over the world.

I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I'm what's called a brat in military circles.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

My father was in the Air Force, so I travelled all over India. I was born in Delhi.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.

I come from a military family.

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

I had a few really bad years in school, just from not fitting in and being bullied. It was kind of brilliant being a military brat, though, because when you're in that kind of situation, you just think, 'I only have to hang on for another year, because then we'll move. It'll be fine if I can just get out of here.'

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.