What follows is familiar to those who earned—by way of familial affiliation and location—the designation “military brat”: my father, Charles Raymond Schlund, was a Chief Master Sargent (CMSGT) in the United States Air Force. His “over there” assignments involved militarized coordinates in western Europe, stations in north and southeast Asia, and bases in the southern United States. These deployments refracted the far reaches and distanced sites of the “Cold War”; and, it was because of my father’s line of military work that the Schlunds (comprised of mother, father, and boy-girl twins) in part came “to be.” Born in Udon Thani Province (Thailand), just outside Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base during the Second Indochina War, I, along with my twin brother, were serendipitously adopted and soon-after relocated to St. Patrick Air Force Base (in northern Florida). Four years later, in 1978, we crossed the Atlantic and lived on Leakenheath Royal Air Force Base (in Suffolk, England). Consistent with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) coalitional politics, my American father loaded munitions onto British planes headed to the Falkland Islands. In 1983, during the U.S. invasion of Grenada, we returned stateside to Moody Air Force Base (in Valdosta, Georgia). It was here that my father’s Air Force livelihood ended: as “career military,” my father served 30 years; standard operating procedure dictated retirement. At age 48, Charles Schlund reentered civilian life as a logistics analyst at Lockheed Martin in Austin, Texas. Concomitant with my father’s 1985 “rebirth,”my mother, brother, and I would cease to be military dependents and instead became—for better or worse— transplanted Texans and resettled “Austinites.”

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在破坏时期创造一些东西：难民写作的潜在能量

以下是那些通过家族隶属关系和地理位置而获得的人所熟悉的称呼：“军事小子”：我的父亲查尔斯·雷蒙德·施伦德（Charles Raymond Schlund）是美国空军的萨金特（CMSGT）首席大师。他的“那里”任务涉及西欧的军事坐标，北亚和东南亚的军事基地以及美国南部的基地。这些部署折射了“冷战”的遥远和遥远的地点。而且，由于我父亲的军事工作，Schlunds（由母亲，父亲和男孩女孩双胞胎组成）在某种程度上“成为了”。在第二次印度支那战争期间，我出生在乌隆他尼府（泰国），就在乌登泰国皇家空军基地外，我和我的双胞胎兄弟被偶然收养，不久就搬到了圣胡安。帕特里克空军基地（在佛罗里达州北部）。四年后的1978年，我们越过大西洋，住在Leakenheath皇家空军基地（位于英国萨福克）。根据北大西洋公约组织（NATO）的联合政治，我的美国父亲将弹药装上了前往福克兰群岛的英国飞机。1983年，在美国入侵格林纳达期间，我们在美国境内返回穆迪空军基地（位于乔治亚州瓦尔多斯塔）。我父亲的空军生活就在这里结束：作为“职业军人”，我的父亲服务了30年；他的父亲在空军服役。标准操作程序要求退休。查尔斯·施伦德（Charles Schlund）48岁，重新回到平民生活，在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市的洛克希德·马丁公司担任物流分析师。伴随着我父亲1985年的“重生”，我的母亲，兄弟，