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The claim that "brat" (in the military sense) has been used for a century or more and that it stands for "British Regiment Attached Traveller" is folk etymology, a backronym. There are no appearances of this phrase dating back that far, and English acronyms were almost non-existent before the mid-20th century.
[Military] Brat: Not an acronym for "British Regiment Attached Traveller". [28] This is just a specific instance of the word brat, meaning child or offspring, first attested in 16th-century Scotland. [29] "Chav": see under "Other" Coma: Some falsely believe that the word coma originates from "cessation of motor activity". Although this ...
Camp followers are civilians who follow armies. There are two common types of camp followers; first, the spouses and children of soldiers, who follow their spouse or parent's army from place to place; the second type of camp followers have historically been informal army service providers, servicing the needs of encamped soldiers, in particular selling goods or services that the military does ...
British showmen, commonly referred to as Funfair Travellers; New Age Travellers; The Romanichal, a Romani subgroup also known as English Gypsies, are not formally regarded as Travellers. Although they traditionally lived an itinerant lifestyle, the term English Travellers formally refers to itinerant groups of indigenous origin.
The requisite American cultural context of the "brat culture" is somewhat absent in the closest of the modern remote British equivalent, that of the children of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), the Royal Air Force, Germany (RAFG) and the British Armed Forces in Germany (British Forces, Germany (BFG)), chiefly because the British Forces ...
The judicial and executive officers of the United States, the several States and Territories, and Puerto Rico. Members of the armed forces, except members who are not on active duty. Customhouse clerks. Persons employed by the United States in the transmission of mail. Workmen employed in armories, arsenals, and naval shipyards of the United ...
In the 2003 invasion of Iraq, US forces fought children at Nasariya, Karbala, and Kirkuk, and the US sent captured child combatants to Abu Ghraib prison. [82] In 2009 a UN report on the post-war Iraqi occupation stated that the Iraqi insurgency had used children as combatants; it noted, for example, a suicide attack against Kirkuk's police ...
The Fencibles (from the word defencible) were British regiments raised in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and in the colonies for defence against the threat of invasion during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.