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re: For the vets - what was your best/worst command (base)?
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:19 am to Spaceman Spiff
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:19 am to Spaceman Spiff
Best: Heidelberg, Germany. Walking out the door of my apartment, turning the corner, and jumping on the Strassenbahn to the Altstadt every weekend was awesome. I had a helluva lot of fun before I became a company commander. What a kick in the dick that was. 
Worst: Fort Bliss, TX. Base was really nice, but El Paso sucks.
Worst: Fort Bliss, TX. Base was really nice, but El Paso sucks.
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Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:20 am to Spaceman Spiff
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hated recruiting duty in upstate NY.
You speaking of Ft. Drum.. if so what years were you there???
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:24 am to jizzle6609
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Fort Leavenworth
There's no way. I went to high school there.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:35 am to Spaceman Spiff
Best - Del Mar, Camp Pendleton, CA
Worst - various FOB's in the sand box pre occupation - awesome time but conditions sucked arse. Oh well we dealt with it and was a non-factor.
Worst - various FOB's in the sand box pre occupation - awesome time but conditions sucked arse. Oh well we dealt with it and was a non-factor.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:37 am to lepdagod
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ou speaking of Ft. Drum.. if so what years were you there???
Albany, recruiting. 08-09 until got hot fill to Pax. Really liked Pax, too. Not a bad area but in the middle of nowhere on the Chesapeake.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:37 am to Finklesteins Kid
My Dad 35 years in the Air Force asked my preference ...
Did not hesitate ,, Edwards AFB Mojave Desert ...Marched in the Rose Bowl Parade. Saw Client Eastwood and Sean Connery shooting movies, saw a full scale battleship built in the desert.
Thunderbirds practice every day .....and a lot of weird stuff flying everywhere.
Rocket engine tests.....And best of all ......nobody around. Nearest city was Lancaster 35 miles away.
Did not hesitate ,, Edwards AFB Mojave Desert ...Marched in the Rose Bowl Parade. Saw Client Eastwood and Sean Connery shooting movies, saw a full scale battleship built in the desert.
Thunderbirds practice every day .....and a lot of weird stuff flying everywhere.
Rocket engine tests.....And best of all ......nobody around. Nearest city was Lancaster 35 miles away.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:43 am to Spaceman Spiff
Was stationed at Camp Pendleton, MARFORRES New Orleans, and Camp Lejeune. Love the area of Pendleton, but it was my first duty station and I was lowing ranking so I was treated like shite. If we are counting TAD/TDY locations, Camp Johnson, NC sucked.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:46 am to Paco_taco
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Worst- Camp Lejeune
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:56 am to bluedragon
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Edwards AFB Mojave Desert
quote:.
nobody around
I have driven that stretch from Apple Valley to Bakersfield and you're right...Edwards is in the middle of nowhere. NOTHING else out there except for retired airliners, windmills by the hundreds and a Hyundai test track.
Still, it was cool driving by thinking of the early test pilots being stationed there and drinking at Happy Bottom.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 11:58 am to Spaceman Spiff
Worst was ft. Polk.
Best was ft. Jackson.
The base in Hohenfels Germany was cool.
I’ve only been to handful though.
Best was ft. Jackson.
The base in Hohenfels Germany was cool.
I’ve only been to handful though.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:13 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Best was by far DLI Monterey Bay. I mean what wasn’t to love. Young single guy. Yes please.
Worst? Tied. Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo TX although I miss Mejor Que Nada fajitas and throwing darts at the Lone Wolf pub.
Also worst? Earackson Air Station. Went TDY there for some maintenance issues. That was a 4 mile Long Island out on the end of the Aluetion chains in Alaska.
Worst? Tied. Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo TX although I miss Mejor Que Nada fajitas and throwing darts at the Lone Wolf pub.
Also worst? Earackson Air Station. Went TDY there for some maintenance issues. That was a 4 mile Long Island out on the end of the Aluetion chains in Alaska.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:15 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Mejor Que Nada
We used to go visit my sister in San Angelo when she was going to ASU. I loved Mejor Que Nada.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:21 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Best- Ft Eustis
Worst-Ft Hood/Ft Polk
Worst-Ft Hood/Ft Polk
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:25 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Shemya, AK. Almost at the end of the Aleutians. Next island over, Attu, was held by the Japs during WWII for a while.
One year remote.
One year remote.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:28 pm to Night Vision
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Shemya, AK.
WTF! What the hell is the point of that place?
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:34 pm to carhartt
Early ballistic missile launch detection pointed at the USSR. Cobra Dane. They reference it in the movie War Games.
Also had another asset in a hangar they would roll out from time to time.
Also had another asset in a hangar they would roll out from time to time.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:35 pm to bluedragon
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..and a lot of weird stuff flying everywhere.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:37 pm to Night Vision
That looks miserable. It has to take the cake for worst peace time military assignment.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:43 pm to Wing T
quote:Pre-K or post-K
Jackson Barracks. Perfectly placed at the Arabi/Lower 9th Border.
(Or both I guess?)
Posted on 6/7/24 at 12:50 pm to carhartt
Believe it was The History Channel that had a show about The Bloody Aleutians, covering the WWII stuff.
They had old pictures on the walls in the hallway leading to the chow hall showing what the WWII folks had to endure out there.
AK didn't become a state until 1959.
They had old pictures on the walls in the hallway leading to the chow hall showing what the WWII folks had to endure out there.
AK didn't become a state until 1959.
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