Military satire from someone who served… emotionally.

Welcome to Secondhand Service, the military satire subpage where the wars are real, the bureaucracy is eternal, and the perspective comes from growing up close enough to smell the JP-8—but never close enough to get hazard pay.

This is satire written by a BRAT: Born, Raised, And Transferred.
We didn’t enlist. We didn’t deploy.
But we lived on base, packed our lives into cardboard boxes every few years, learned rank before algebra, and discovered early that the Department of Defense does not observe most holidays—especially the ones that matter.

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