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They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how it would affect our military readiness the next time a Hitler-wannabe reared his ugly head. As they made a list of pros and cons for sending families overseas, they never imagined that DOD schools would be the best possible solution to nearly every problem they could envision. The most unpredictable phenomena occurred. The DOD literally created a culture of kids whose life experiences were so rich, yet so different from where they__ come from, that as they grew in years the people they most related to, the people they most wanted to be around, were other military kids who had the same shared experience. Military kids became military members__nd they__e kept us strong, our families, armed forces, our country, all of us.

Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families__nd DOD schools provide a world-class education that has proven time and again to be an incentive for sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines to reenlist. Military dependents that attend DoDDS schools are highly regarded by prestigious universities the world over for a number of reasons, but there__ one that you__ have a hard time replicating in a stateside school system: they__e lived overseas, traveled the world, seen and experienced other cultures, learned foreign languages through immersion, and they__e gained an understanding of the world that you can__ get in a traditional classroom. Add a rigorous curriculum and a long track record of high test scores throughout DoDDS, and it__ pretty easy to see why military kids are in such high demand.

As calls rang out the world over for new treaties and organizations to be established with the intent of preventing future wars, America and her allies took a more realistic approach to the problem__e maintained allied military bases across Europe and Asia and we stationed troops in these foreign territories on a permanent basis. We weren__ invaders or conquerors and for sure we had no intention of being an empire. We were liberators. That__ all. But having fought and sacrificed so much and for so long, the pragmatic thing to do was to follow this simple philosophy: it__ great to have dialogue, it just works a lot better when you have a strong military strategically placed and ready to act around the globe.