Bewt Gingriches Military Brat Childhood  Biography  This article glosses over and therefore misses a richley different aspect of Gingriches upbringing Like about  million Americans Newt was a military brat child of a career military family this was a very different way of growing up with unique challenges and benefits The article implies that somehow Newt is from Pennsilvania which reveals the common tenedency to misunderstand a military childhood in fact Gingrich grew up on a series of military bases in a number of places Military brats face unique challenges moving constantly throughout ones childhood constantly having to say good bye to friends the strictness of life on military bases and in nearby military dominated towns but also military brats tend to have unique skills which this article also needs to expand upon a knack for quickly developing relationships with people a resulting social savvyness and broader and more culturally diverse world view and also a military aptitude for strategy leadership and even Generalship    A more accurate study of Newts life would reveal that such an upbringing may have much to do with the original foundations of his genius for political strategy as one of the masterminds and Generals of the Republican revolution of the early ninteys   Expanding on the military dimension of Gingriches childhood and what it means to be an American military child is needed in order to make this a truely representative article   Sincerely