As a Navy brat he traveled extensively with his parents, and always, Holiday Inns were like oases.
And partly it is because she is a Navy brat, the daughter of a pilot from California who did two tours in Vietnam.
Spicer described herself to me as a Navy brat whose father had retired here.
He recalled, "I was a Navy brat.
Elliot was born in Seattle, Washington, as a self-described "Navy brat".
Maddie hates being called a Navy brat and says so, brusquely, to anyone who uses the term.
He was brought up as "a Navy brat" in Malta and Scotland, anxious about class and the decline of empire.
A Navy brat, he grew up from Maine to Hawaii.
A Navy brat all her life, Tiffani had gone to seven different schools in her eleven years since kindergarten.
Raised a Navy brat, the doctor was as comfortable aboard a submarine as any sailor wearing the double dolphins of the fleet.