Welcome Home.
The Official Home of the Global Military Brat Community.
Institutional Statement
Brat Corps® is the permanent institution for military brats of every generation. Whether your journey began on an installation in the United States or overseas, whether you moved once or twenty times, whether you are a child, a student, a parent, a veteran military brat, or a senior, you belong here. Together, we preserve our shared identity, strengthen lifelong belonging, develop leaders, build stronger military-connected communities, and honor the legacy of those who came before us while preparing those who will follow.
Institutional Motto
Semper Bratus®
Always A Military Brat
FIND YOUR PLACE
No two military brat journeys are exactly alike, but every journey belongs here.
Whether you are just beginning your journey or looking back on a lifetime shaped by military service, Brat Corps® provides a place to connect, grow, serve, and lead.
Choose the pathway that best reflects where you are today.
Military Brats
Find lifelong belonging, friendships, leadership opportunities, and experiences designed for every stage of your military brat journey.
Begin Your Journey
Parents & Families
Access trusted resources, discover community, and connect with organizations dedicated to strengthening military-connected families.
Support Your Family
Adult Military Brats
Reconnect with a community that understands your unique experiences while discovering opportunities to mentor, lead, and preserve our shared heritage.
Reconnect
Military Installations
Partner with Brat Corps® to strengthen military-connected communities through leadership, engagement, and destination excellence.
Explore Partnerships
Cities & Communities
Discover how Military-Connected Destination Excellence™ helps communities become places where military-connected families can thrive.
Learn More
Schools & Universities
Support military-connected students through collaboration, research, leadership development, and educational partnerships.
Explore Opportunities
Partners & Sponsors
Invest in an institution that is creating lasting impact across generations of military brats and military-connected communities.
Partner With Us
Researchers & Policymakers
Access research, standards, publications, and innovative frameworks that advance military-connected communities worldwide.
Visit the Knowledge Institute
MORE THAN AN ORGANIZATION.
A PERMANENT HOME.
Military brats share one of the most unique life experiences in the world.
Frequent moves.
Changing schools.
Deployments.
New cultures.
New friendships.
New beginnings.
While every journey is different, the experiences that shape military brat life create a lifelong bond that transcends geography, branch of service, and generation.
Brat Corps® exists to preserve that bond.
As the permanent institution for the global military brat community, Brat Corps® brings together children, youth, adults, and senior military brats through community, leadership, research, destination excellence, heritage, and nationally recognized experiences that strengthen identity and inspire lifelong belonging.
This is more than a membership.
This is home.
HOW BRAT CORPS WORKS
Every initiative, experience, and partnership within Brat Corps® is guided by a shared institutional purpose: strengthening military brat identity while building stronger military-connected communities.
Our work is organized into six interconnected areas:
Community
Building lifelong relationships through Posts, membership, mentorship, and global connections.
Destinations
Helping communities become places where military-connected families thrive through destination excellence, community development, and strategic partnerships.
Stories
Capturing and sharing the voices, experiences, and journeys that define military brat life across generations
Legacy
Honoring those who came before us while preserving our history and preparing future generations to lead.
EXPLORE BRAT CORPS®
Community
Find your people. Build lifelong friendships. Discover a place where every military brat belongs.
Destinations
Strengthening military-connected communities through innovation, collaboration, and Military-Connected Destination Excellence™.
Experiences
Participate in nationally recognized destination experiences that celebrate military brat culture, leadership, and community.
Knowledge
Explore research, publications, standards, and leadership resources shaping the future of military-connected communities.
Legacy
Honor the past, celebrate the present, and help preserve the stories that define military brat history.
SIGNATURE DESTINATION EXPERIENCES™
Every Brat Corps destination experience is intentionally designed to strengthen identity, inspire leadership, foster lifelong belonging, and create lasting memories for military brats around the world.
Heritage Week™
The world's premier annual gathering dedicated to military brat identity, heritage, and lifelong belonging.
MILACON®
Where military brat creativity comes to life through comics, cosplay, gaming, animation, film, storytelling, and digital culture.
Military Child World Expo®
The nation's leading celebration of military-connected opportunity, education, health, innovation, and leadership.
Battle of the Bases®
America's premier military brat esports championship, connecting competition with leadership, scholarships, and community.
BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES
Brat Corps® believes that strong military brat communities do not happen by accident, they are intentionally built through leadership, collaboration, research, and long-term investment.
Through Military-Connected Destination Excellence™, the Brat Corps Community Development Corporation™, strategic partnerships, and destination events, we help communities create environments where military-connected children, families, veterans, and military brats can thrive together.
We are not simply hosting programs.
We are helping build communities that last.
KNOWLEDGE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FUTURE
The future of military brats depends upon access to education, technology, leadership development, mentorship, and pathways into meaningful careers.
Through the Military Digital Advancement Initiative (MDAI™), military-connected children and military brats can access digital literacy, STEM, artificial intelligence readiness, cybersecurity education, leadership development, career exploration, credentials, mentorship, internships, and higher-education pathways designed to remain accessible throughout frequent moves and transitions.
MDAI™ helps ensure that every military-connected learner has a place to belong, an opportunity to grow, and a pathway to lead.