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re: You Military Guys (&Gals) What Was Your Favorite & Least Favorite Base Posting & Why?
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:38 am to LuckyTiger
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:38 am to LuckyTiger
Best = NAS North Island - beaches, great weather. Worst = NAS Memphis Millington - it's near Memphis.
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 2:32 pm
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Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:40 am to LuckyTiger
I actually was never stationed at a shitty base. I've been in Phoenix, Korea, Italy, and Alabama. I also have had stints in Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, UAE, Guam, Bulgaria, and Central America.
My permanent bases were pretty decent overall, but the worst of the lot was Korea.
All the rules. Curfews, all the bullshite exercises, everybody lives on base. It's super easy to get in trouble and ruin your career there. It was also an unaccompanied one year, which means you don't take your family there. A lot of people went buck wild for it and acted stupid.
Kuwait is also a boring arse place. For work or as a traveler. Two people I was stationed with were driving down the highway during Ramadan and a cop car saw the driver take a swig of water and he pulled them over and he went to jail until Ramadan was over.
My permanent bases were pretty decent overall, but the worst of the lot was Korea.
All the rules. Curfews, all the bullshite exercises, everybody lives on base. It's super easy to get in trouble and ruin your career there. It was also an unaccompanied one year, which means you don't take your family there. A lot of people went buck wild for it and acted stupid.
Kuwait is also a boring arse place. For work or as a traveler. Two people I was stationed with were driving down the highway during Ramadan and a cop car saw the driver take a swig of water and he pulled them over and he went to jail until Ramadan was over.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:41 am to Buckeye Backer
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Fort Polk, LA
Glad to see it didn't make your 'worst' list.
I was born and raised in Leesville - Home of Ft. Polk. It was Camp Polk when I was born in '38.
Many of my first memories from childhood centered around the military activity there - the LA maneuvers were held there and has been active maneuver area since.
- saw tanks stream by our house in Leesville city limits.
- blackouts on certain days, driving with no lights
- military parades - Eisenhower, Patton, Marshall all honored during the maneuvers
- dad having a group for meals a few times - one looked/sounded like Tennessee Ernie
- when the bivouac ended they left dad tons of barbed wire and me some "K-Rations"
- remember Normandy = talk of ocean turning red with blood.
- remember VJ Day, but not VE Day.
- during Korean era sneaked into the practice artillery range & bombing practice area
- - first to harvest the silk parachutes and then
- - the magnesium/phosphorous(?) flares that didn't ignite - used for rocket experiments
- remember the whole town being declared "off limits" to military personnel
- lots of military retirees settled there
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 10:45 am
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:44 am to LuckyTiger
I served at (or was TDY for 2 months) at nearly 20 bases across the US, some small (like Pine Bluff Arsenal). I enjoyed Ft. Carson the most. Access to skiing and biking as well as the scenery. Ft. Ord (now gone I think) was a close second as I was across the street from the Pacific with access to Monterrey and Carmel. Liked Ft. Bragg and Campbell for history and Stewart for Savannah.
Ft. Dix and Ft Jackson were the least favorite.
Ft. Dix and Ft Jackson were the least favorite.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:50 am to ChineseBandit58
My Dad was in for 25 years. We followed CIA assignments. Langley, Virginia was interesting but
Hands down
Edwards AFB, California
35 miles from the nearest city. Area 51 to the east.
Where else can you jump into a car with Dad and race to watch Sean Connery shooting a James Bond movie live?
Where else can you jump into the car, ride for an hour, never leave the base and watch Clint Eastwood shooting a movie?
We would go out to see the Rat Patrol filming. TV series.
Full size battleship in the middle of the desert. Photograph imaging taking place at the time.
NCIS scenes filmed all over the base. There are bases within the base abandoned long ago.
Weapons testing. Aircraft testing ...
I was in my freshman year of high school. 120 piece marching band ..... Marched in festivals all over California then marched in the Rose Bowl Parade. Years later asked how I enjoyed that .....Five mile hike behind horses. LOL
Dad was at U2 and SR 71 bases while we were there. The following year we moved to Japan.
I loved Tokyo ....
Hands down
Edwards AFB, California
35 miles from the nearest city. Area 51 to the east.
Where else can you jump into a car with Dad and race to watch Sean Connery shooting a James Bond movie live?
Where else can you jump into the car, ride for an hour, never leave the base and watch Clint Eastwood shooting a movie?
We would go out to see the Rat Patrol filming. TV series.
Full size battleship in the middle of the desert. Photograph imaging taking place at the time.
NCIS scenes filmed all over the base. There are bases within the base abandoned long ago.
Weapons testing. Aircraft testing ...
I was in my freshman year of high school. 120 piece marching band ..... Marched in festivals all over California then marched in the Rose Bowl Parade. Years later asked how I enjoyed that .....Five mile hike behind horses. LOL
Dad was at U2 and SR 71 bases while we were there. The following year we moved to Japan.
I loved Tokyo ....
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 10:55 am
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:50 am to LuckyTiger
‘Rocking in Fidel’s Backyard,’ was THE best ever radio station. You used to be able to listen to it online
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:01 am to LuckyTiger
Favorite: When I was single it was Ft. Carson. After I got married, it was Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Least Favorite: Fort Bragg by far. Easily the most miserable three years of my life.
Least Favorite: Fort Bragg by far. Easily the most miserable three years of my life.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:02 am to NakaTrash
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Least fav (most miserable)—29 Palms for CAX work ups
first thing that I thought of...
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:05 am to CU_Tigers4life
I enjoyed USAFA as well.
Worst was a tossup between Minot and a short TDY at Lackland. Minot was fine until winter hit.
Worst was a tossup between Minot and a short TDY at Lackland. Minot was fine until winter hit.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:06 am to LuckyTiger
Favorite: NIOC Colorado because there was so much to see and do outside.
Least Favorite: NIOC Hawaii because the command was absolute trash and no one seemed to care.
Least Favorite: NIOC Hawaii because the command was absolute trash and no one seemed to care.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:08 am to Dissident Aggressor
Fav- Camp Pendleton, Camp Del Mar
area 21 early 90’s
Was walking distance to the beach and the best e club on base
Weather was great yr around
Worst - I’ll add to the 29 palms list
Just a void wasteland of sand and hot as balls area
Worst 6 months in the Marines
area 21 early 90’s
Was walking distance to the beach and the best e club on base
Weather was great yr around
Worst - I’ll add to the 29 palms list
Just a void wasteland of sand and hot as balls area
Worst 6 months in the Marines
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:12 am to LuckyTiger
Fort Sam Houston was a great place back in The 70s. I bet it's not so great anymore.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:36 am to LuckyTiger
I enjoyed Fort Bragg. Fayetteville is underrated.
The community and the base are closely allied.
My family liked San Diego the best.
The community and the base are closely allied.
My family liked San Diego the best.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:38 am to makersmark1
quote:
I enjoyed Fort Bragg. Fayetteville is underrated.
I was left to rot in XVIII Airborne Corps Headquarters for three years so my perspective is a bit different.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:39 am to LuckyTiger
quote:I imagine most of the baws on here hated Fort Bragg due to its confederate naming.
You Military Guys (&Gals) What Was Your Favorite & Least Favorite Base Posting & Why?
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:41 am to makersmark1
Least Fav: Great Mistakes, IL. That place needs to be swallowed by a sinkhole.
Fav: Orlando was great as was La Maddalena, Italy. Was discharged while in overhaul in Charleston and stayed for 8 years until they shut the base and shipyard down. Great town.
Fav: Orlando was great as was La Maddalena, Italy. Was discharged while in overhaul in Charleston and stayed for 8 years until they shut the base and shipyard down. Great town.
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 11:42 am
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:42 am to LuckyTiger
I liked Mare Island California. Vallejo, across the bay, thirty miles from San Francisco.
New London, Connecticut.
Charleston S.C. Folks in the Charleston area were very friendly to service men.
New London, Connecticut.
Charleston S.C. Folks in the Charleston area were very friendly to service men.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:44 am to Adajax
quote:came thisclose to going there. we were penciled in as they called it in the olden days.
La Maddalena, Italy.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:46 am to Snazzmeister
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Minot was fine until winter hit.
Yeah I have some friends that were stationed in Minot and would always send me stuff like this:
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:46 am to Snazzmeister
quote:
I enjoyed USAFA as well.
Worst was a tossup between Minot and a short TDY at Lackland. Minot was fine until winter hit.
My duties at USAFA allowed me to go on a lot of TDY's stateside and got to see a lot of bases. One of those magical trips was Ellsworth, AFB in Rapid City SD in the dead of winter...That was not a glorious place to be.
Speaking of Lackland, I went to Basic there like any AF enlisted does in the early 80's. I had no idea of what the place was all about back then because we are sequestered in a small area....When I attended my kid's graduation last year and got to see the place I realize how much I didn't care for. No aesthetics at all.
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 11:47 am
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