Jill Biden Quotes

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.

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

My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

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.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

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

I was a military brat; we moved all around.

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

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

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

I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.

My father was in the Army so I have lived all over India.

I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

Our family lives military and veterans issues in a way few others do.

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

The Trevor Romain Foundation is a project that I am most proud to be a part of. They work with the USO and help provide support and comfort to military children and their families.

I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.

My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.