After spending two years working for The Netherlands Foreign Service at The Netherlands Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, Brigitte emigrated to the U.S. in the summer of 1993 to
join her
husband in Camp Pendleton, California where she lived for six years, moved to Okinawa, Japan for three years, then on to Jacksonville, North Carolina for eight years before finally ending up in Manassas, Virginia after her
husband retired from the
military.