OT Veterans, Where all have you been stationed?

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And it was interesting to have to live on the economy and hot really have any local Army support.

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My sis and her husband lived in Spain on the economy. They had a villa with a gardener and a housekeeper. They traveled all over the place and had tons of local friends. They were sad when they PCS'd back to the States. Meanwhile, most of the other Americans never left the base and bitched constantly. The MWR office had all kinds of excursions and cultural opportunities that were sparsely attended.

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My sis and her husband lived in Spain on the economy. They had a villa with a gardener and a housekeeper. They traveled all over the place and had tons of local friends. They were sad when they PCS'd back to the States. Meanwhile, most of the other Americans never left the base and bitched constantly. The MWR office had all kinds of excursions and cultural opportunities that were sparsely attended.

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I worked in a Medical Research facility that was in a Thai Army Hospital. The closest Army installation was Camp Zama in Japan. That was a 6 hour flight from us. We were attached to the US Embassy for command and control reasons. We got to wear civilian clothes to work because the Embassy didn't want us running around town in uniform.

I'm pretty sure my ex-wife and I were the only military in our apartment complex. There were people from the States, Franch, Germany, Australia and England in our building. So we got to meet people from all over the world. I still keep in touch with a bunch of them.

I know what you mean about people staying on Post and complaining. They even do it in the States. They won't venture off the installation much, then bitch because they are bored and there's nothing to do.

14 years in Marine Reserves

Boot Camp in San Diego
Infantry school Camp Pendleton
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
29 Palms California
Iraq
Constanta, Romania

Camp Lejeune
Parris Island
Baton Rouge
Camp Pendleton

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Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (Oh, the humanity!)

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My first job after I retired wanted me to move up there from Fort Polk when they decided to relocate the operation. Uh, no thanks. I'd rather be unemployed in Louisiana than working in NJ.

Kings Bay, GA
Groton, CT
La Maddelena, Italy

Tough choice but I guess I'd go w/ Italy as the best


I LOVED Kings Bay! I was there for three years on the Canopus. Easiest duty I ever did.

13E/13D Field Artillery Fire Direction Sergeant

National Guard Bartow, Florida 1 year 98-99

Fort Lewis 3 years 1/37th FA, 2 ID 99-02

Fort Polk 5 years 1/2nd ACR (War Eagles) and 5/25th FA 10th MTN 02-07

Branch
Regular Army 1988-1992
Al Army Nat Guard 1992-1998

MOS
19Delta (Cavalry Scout)
19Kilo (M1 Armored Crewman)
13Bravo (Artillery Cannon Crew member) (My Guard unit was transitioned from armor to artillery so I had to change MOS)

Duty Stations (Regular Army)
Fulda, Germany
Saudi Arabia/Iraq (First Gulf War)
Fort Knox, KY

Duty Stations (ARNG - Usually 2 weeks for AT)
Camp Shelby, MS.
Fort Polk, LA
Fort Hood, TX
Fort McClellan, AL
Eglin AFB, FL <- They have (or had) a huge tank range out with the missile range at Eglin. There was also a Ranger School that was not far from our tank range.

A lot of Polk listed...would be interesting to find out if any of us were in the same unit at the same time.