A series of six programmes that look beyond the barrack gates at family life in the army. 4: Army families talk about their turbulent way of life and it's implications.
When an army family moves every two years the children have to make new friends at new schools. The army calls this 'turbulence'.
There's not much parents can do except send their children away to boarding school. There, at least, friends are constant.
Pete, a Lt Colonel's son, says that at 18 he can see the logic of it all, but when he was sent away at 8, he was unhappy. It's a dilemma Charlie and Lynne are facing in West Germany. They have just sent their children to school in England. Others like Rose and Alan couldn't face separation. They believe that their children's place is at home.
Film editor Mike Lane Producer Marie Thomas
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