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re: For the vets - what was your best/worst command (base)?
Posted on 6/8/24 at 8:35 am to Spaceman Spiff
Posted on 6/8/24 at 8:35 am to Spaceman Spiff
MCAS El Toro was the best. In the middle is Orange County before it became like the rest of liberal SoCal. The worst was MCB Twenty Nine Palms/Stumps.
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Posted on 6/8/24 at 7:08 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
Shemya right? An older coworker at a former job was stationed there in the sixties. Maybe some of it was tall tales but he made it sound like the island of lost souls. The wind howled all the time. The beach was off limits because rogue waves could wash you out to sea. No trees, and no animals except birds and some rodents. The rec hall burned down so there was even less to do. An airliner made an emergency landing and they posted armed guards to keep guys from trying to stow away. After a year he got orders for Vietnam and considered himself lucky.
Yes. Your old coworker wasn’t exaggerating much. Maybe with the state away part of the story but that place was hell.
Posted on 6/8/24 at 9:18 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Sit/ maybe roll over….
veteninarian right?!
veteninarian right?!
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:03 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Best, when active duty was MCAS Futenma on Oki...now a civvie at Hurlburt Field and it is close second.
Worst, Camp Geiger (Lejeune)...had a good time there, but that ain't saying much
Worst, Camp Geiger (Lejeune)...had a good time there, but that ain't saying much
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:33 pm to bigezsaint
quote:
Little Rock AFB
You never ventured outside of Jacksonville or Cabot did you?
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:35 pm to gatigerusmc
— Camp Shwab, Okinawa
— Khe Sanh, RSVN
Guess which one was worse.
— Khe Sanh, RSVN
Guess which one was worse.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 11:06 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Top 2
Jax NAS, FL (was young and single)
Misawa, Japan (great food/people)
Bottom 2
Oceana, VA (melting pot, lots of issues)
Miramar, CA (too many reasons to list)
I had so much fun in Jax. Japan was awesome for all the customs and sightseeing and eating. Made some great friends with Japanese nationals. Talked a rich local (who worked on base) into opening a McDonalds. Took him on a trip to another city to try it. He liked it so much he bought a cooler and went back and bought a shitload of burgers and brought back for friends/family. He made bank by opening one after all the red tape. It cost him 1,800,000 yen for the franchise fee, at the time that was around $600,000 US equivalent.
Jax NAS, FL (was young and single)
Misawa, Japan (great food/people)
Bottom 2
Oceana, VA (melting pot, lots of issues)
Miramar, CA (too many reasons to list)
I had so much fun in Jax. Japan was awesome for all the customs and sightseeing and eating. Made some great friends with Japanese nationals. Talked a rich local (who worked on base) into opening a McDonalds. Took him on a trip to another city to try it. He liked it so much he bought a cooler and went back and bought a shitload of burgers and brought back for friends/family. He made bank by opening one after all the red tape. It cost him 1,800,000 yen for the franchise fee, at the time that was around $600,000 US equivalent.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 1:14 am to Spaceman Spiff
Ft Stewart, GA
fricking mechanized infantry division.
Fat-frick, 32 oz 7-11 coffee drinking mech losers.
Shithole Redneck Hinesville outside the gate.
Worst 18 months of my 20 yr service.
Bright side was that I PCSed to Schofield Barracks, HI for the next 4 years.
frick 3ID
fricking mechanized infantry division.
Fat-frick, 32 oz 7-11 coffee drinking mech losers.
Shithole Redneck Hinesville outside the gate.
Worst 18 months of my 20 yr service.
Bright side was that I PCSed to Schofield Barracks, HI for the next 4 years.
frick 3ID
This post was edited on 6/10/24 at 1:15 am
Posted on 6/10/24 at 2:19 am to Obtuse1
quote:Had a bunch of 82nd in my unit in Korea. Told me they just rotated back and forth between 82nd and 2 ID. That's no way to live.
Bragg both the best and worst, All Americans rarely leave.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 2:26 am to exiledhogfan
quote:Arifjan? I thought it was pretty sweet. Midnight chow at the main dfac, all kinds of shitty American fast food, a pool, a PX, hot showers and laundry trailers, females. Other than booze it had everything you could hope for on a SWA deployment.
Worst: tie -- Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and whatever the hell that staging base was in Kuwait (hottest place on the planet
This post was edited on 6/10/24 at 2:27 am
Posted on 6/10/24 at 5:15 am to Spaceman Spiff
Lejeune was all ticks, mosquitoes, snakes, bad water…
Enjoyed 29 Stumps despite repeated flash floods that carried away equipment, 128 degree temps, but accessible to San Diego, Tiajuna.
Enjoyed 29 Stumps despite repeated flash floods that carried away equipment, 128 degree temps, but accessible to San Diego, Tiajuna.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 6:08 am to Spaceman Spiff
I liked Fort Hood.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 6:49 am to Spaceman Spiff
I'm Air Force, 1 July is my retirement date.
Best Base: MacDill AFB, FL. It's home for me, we have 2 Joint combatant commands, and the base is beautiful on Tampa Bay.
Worst Base: Robins AFB, GA. Crappy base is in a shithole town south of a ghetto arse city (Macon). Leadership sucked overall.
Best Base: MacDill AFB, FL. It's home for me, we have 2 Joint combatant commands, and the base is beautiful on Tampa Bay.
Worst Base: Robins AFB, GA. Crappy base is in a shithole town south of a ghetto arse city (Macon). Leadership sucked overall.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 7:40 am to Spaceman Spiff
From a kid's point of view, Kaneohe MCAS in Hawaii was the perfect place to grow up.
Went to the beach behind the house almost every day.
Went to the beach behind the house almost every day.
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