Eleven States

To date I have lived in 11 different states.
I was born in Symmes Hospital in Arlington, Massachusetts. I joined my parents who where living with my dad's family in Malden, Massachusetts.
My father was working a welder in Boston Naval Yard. I believe he got ulcers on his eyes due to the welding gasses, so he had to find another line of work. He approached the Navy about rejoining. He was a Seabee during WWII. The Navy would not give him back his rank. So, he approached the Army who said sure he could have his rank back as soon as he completed Basic Training (Navy Basic did not count). My dad said yes off he went to Basic Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. About two weeks in the Army realized he knew more that the current drill instructors, so they made him a drill instructor.
My dad was out of Basic Training so mom, Bill, and I moved to New Jersey (My brother Bill is fourteen months younger than I am.) We all moved into a converted chicken coop in New Jersey (My second state.) I do not know the city/town. That house was still occupied in 1968 and looked to be in good shape. My mother took me to see it when we went to visit Bill who was in Basic Training at Fort Dix.
After Fort Dix my dad was given orders for Anchorage, Alaska. He went alone and we dependents moved back in with his parents (I think) until we could join him. He opened Fort Richardson, was the first to raise the colors over the fort. The three of us later took a train across country and flew into Anchorage on the last leg of the trip. Quarters were not ready yet so we rented a 20 by 20 cabin for $90 a month. The outhouse was off to the right and the water pump was off to the left. My first memories are here. We later moved into quarters on base. These where what we would now call town houses, two story apartments in a row. It was here that three of my sisters where born, Maggie, Jean, and Janet. Janet lived for about a month and half. My first memory of my father was when he and my mother came home after Janet died. Jean her twin recently passed and some of her ashes have joined Janet. I count Alaska as one of the states I have lived in even though it was not yet a state when we lived there. We were there during the Korean Conflict.
From Alaska my father was stationed to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, my fourth state. We rented a house in Arlington, Virginia. It was along narrow house.  We were not there long and I don't remember ever moving on base.
Next my dad was transferred to to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, number five. We first rented half of a duplex out in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The owners were snow birds and lived in trailer on the property during the summer. Other than the people on the other half the only other visible neighbor was about a quarter of mile away. The raised chickens, we got a lot of eggs and I learned a lot about chickens. Across the road was a watermelon patch. Awhile later we moved on base into quarters in a converted hospital. The hospital was huge with rows of multiple apartment buildings connected by covered, elevated walkways.
Next my father was sent to South Korea on detached duty for a year. I think that is when he got promoted to Warrant Officer. The five of us dependents moved back to Massachusetts. My mother rented a flat in the third story of a multi dwelling house on Orvis Rd in Arlington, Massachusetts. I started third grade that fall.
On his return from Korea my dad was assigned back to Fort Belvoir, Virginia. We rented a house on Randolf Macon Drive in Alexandria, Virginia. After a while we moved on base into an older four apartment building, nestled into the woods. During the winter the coal fired furnace was cleaned and feed on a rotating weekly basis. Bill and I usually took care of the furnace during our week. While there my second brother, Richard, was still born. He is in Arlington National Cemetery along with my father and mother.
In October 1959 we rotated to Germany. My father was stationed at Anderson Barracks along the Rhine River in Germany. This was the first time we immediately moved on base. At first we were temporarily in a two bedroom apartment for a couple of weeks until the three bedroom was available in the officers quarters. Once in the three bedroom we stayed there until we left Germany. During our time there we also visited The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
Coming back to the states my parents left us in Arlington and Lexington, Massachusetts while they took a second honeymoon to prepare for us in Fort Wayne, Michigan located inside of Detroit, Michigan. We went to school from October through Christmas in Massachusetts. In January all of us moved to Fort Wayne. For only the second time we moved right onto the base. While there we moved twice into larger quarters. All of the quarter were built in the 1860s. The last duplex were were in had a flying staircase, a butlers pantry, four bedrooms on the second floor, and two bedrooms with a kitchen in the servants quarters on the third floor, where my brother and I had our bedrooms. While there my fourth sister Catherine was born. She lived for 18 hours. Michigan was my sixth state.
From there my father was stationed back to Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He was in the Corps of Engineers and Fort Belvoir was their home base then. We rented a four bedroom house in Fairfax, Virginia. this was a temporary assignment as he was being prepared for a year of detached duty in Thailand. We stayed in the house while he was away in Thailand. Both Bill and I graduated from Fairfax High School. My father was in Thailand when I graduated. He retired from the Army when he returned and died less than a year later.
My mother wanted to go home. After Bill graduated we packed up and moved to a town house in Winchester, Massachusetts. My mother and sisters stayed there until both Maggie and Jean had graduated from high school.
I enlisted in the Air Force not long after we got back to Massachusetts. The Air Force sent me to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, state number seven. There I lived in an open dorm barracks. I did get into San Antonio, Texas and saw the Alamo. The River Walk has not been built yet.
For Jet Engine Mechanics School I was sent to Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul, Illinois, number eight. Again open bay barracks. I did get into a four man room.
State number nine is Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, Nevada. There I was in several barracks with two men rooms. The base became crowded and I moved off base once I became a sergeant. The first was a two bedroom apartment that I shared with another sergeant. Shortly after getting out of the Air Force I moved into a single bedroom apartment where I stayed until I left Nevada.
After a while I returned to Michigan to re-enter college at Lawrence Institute of Technology. I had dropped out when my father died. While in school I rented a room from a local. Then I shared a house with four others. Interestingly one was Indian and another was Pakistani, they actually got along. Finally a two bedroom apartment with a fellow student who left me in the lurch for the last year, after insisting we sign a lease. I got married the day before my graduation from college. She has been my constant room mate for going on forty years now. While together in Michigan we have had an apartment, and two houses.
In 2006 after one child had left the nest we moved to Madison, Wisconsin, state number ten. I move for a job. We just rented an apartment there after having been burned in the housing crisis.
Again because of a job change we moved to Davenport, Iowa leaving behind our youngest daughter. she has since moved back to Michigan. I am now living in the eleventh state.
Our current plans are to move back to Michigan once I retire.
All information here is from memory. My time sense is not all that good but I believe the order is correct.