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re: You Military Guys (&Gals) What Was Your Favorite & Least Favorite Base Posting & Why?
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:47 am to CU_Tigers4life
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:47 am to CU_Tigers4life
quote:Stationed there for four long years, summers in the Black Hills awesome, winter not so much.
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.
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Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:48 am to LuckyTiger
Never served, but my BIL and sister were stationed in Minot, ND. They hated it.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:51 am to LuckyTiger
So much depends on your command and job, so I’ll try and stay neutral to just the base and local area.
I’ve been stationed at:
Shaw AFB, SC
Holloman AFB, NM
Fort Stewart, GA
Fort Riley, KS
Fort Sill, OK
Kunsan, South Korea
Naval Support Activity Orlando, FL
Seattle, WA
Rock Island Arsenal, Il
Fort Leavenworth, KS
Fort Bragg, NC
Pentagon
and of course all over the Middle East which I don’t count.
Removed from the command, I would rank them.
Orlando > Fort Stewart > Seattle > Shaw > Rock Island > Kunsan > Pentagon > Bragg > Holloman > Leavenworth > Riley > Sill
I’ve been stationed at:
Shaw AFB, SC
Holloman AFB, NM
Fort Stewart, GA
Fort Riley, KS
Fort Sill, OK
Kunsan, South Korea
Naval Support Activity Orlando, FL
Seattle, WA
Rock Island Arsenal, Il
Fort Leavenworth, KS
Fort Bragg, NC
Pentagon
and of course all over the Middle East which I don’t count.
Removed from the command, I would rank them.
Orlando > Fort Stewart > Seattle > Shaw > Rock Island > Kunsan > Pentagon > Bragg > Holloman > Leavenworth > Riley > Sill
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:52 am to CU_Tigers4life
Best Naval station in Key West. Worst Ft Seal OK.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:52 am to NakaTrash
quote:
Least fav (most miserable)—29 Palms for CAX work ups. Depressing wasteland of a place. Hot as balls in the day and freezing at night.
What, you didn't enjoy Lake Bandini?
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:52 am to Redleg Guy
I liked my time at Shaw.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:53 am to Wize1
quote:Awesome TDY!
Best Naval station in Key West.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:54 am to LuckyTiger
Favorite: Coronado Island
Least: Fort Polk
Least: Fort Polk
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:56 am to LuckyTiger
Anybody who mentions Fort Drum can meet me at Sonic where I will topple your route 44 diet cherry limeade and make you feed me the cherry.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:58 am to LuckyTiger
Least: Ft. Sill Oklahoma. Lawton a typical base town. Bars, whorehouses and pawn shops.
Most: Geilenkirchen, W. Germany. Beer, Oktober Fest, get to Rhien Main AFB in Frankfurt put on class As and hitch a ride to any base in Europe. Just being in Germany.
Most: Geilenkirchen, W. Germany. Beer, Oktober Fest, get to Rhien Main AFB in Frankfurt put on class As and hitch a ride to any base in Europe. Just being in Germany.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:58 am to Adajax
quote:
Least Fav: Great Mistakes, IL. That place needs to be swallowed by a sinkhole.
I can see why the Navy abandoned Orlando, as it's nowhere near the ocean. But choosing North Illinois over San Diego as a boot camp? That HAD to have been a political decision during BRAC. That had to have been a case of some powerful Illinois pol threatening the Navy's budget if they closed Great Mistakes.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:58 am to CU_Tigers4life
Favorite: Heilbronn Germany, spent 4 years there and tried to spend more time, Uncle Sam said it was time to rotate back to the States.
Worst: Ft. Campbell, KY 101ST airborne- To be honest I was hardly ever there. We were gone and got a chance to call home to my wife. Phone call about like this:
Her: Ring, Ring. Hello
Me: Hey what's up.
Her: Who is this?
Me: OUCH.
It was then I decided it was time to get out. They offered early retirement (15 years) and I was gone.
Worst: Ft. Campbell, KY 101ST airborne- To be honest I was hardly ever there. We were gone and got a chance to call home to my wife. Phone call about like this:
Her: Ring, Ring. Hello
Me: Hey what's up.
Her: Who is this?
Me: OUCH.
It was then I decided it was time to get out. They offered early retirement (15 years) and I was gone.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:00 pm to dietcoke7
quote:Best kept secret in the world, loved Maastricht.
Geilenkirchen
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:01 pm to LuckyTiger
Favorite: Point Loma Sub base. Not busy like 32nd street or Coronado.
Least: Fort Bragg.
Anyone ever deploy to Balad / LSA Anaconda?
Least: Fort Bragg.
Anyone ever deploy to Balad / LSA Anaconda?
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:02 pm to Jbird
quote:
quote:
Best Naval station in Key West.
Awesome TDY!
You're going to think I'm absolutely nuts, but... if I had it to do over again, I'd volunteer for a year at Diego Garcia. I was there for a two week stint, and absolutely loved it. People kept moaning about the isolation, but I liked that. I liked that it was a tropical paradise thousands of miles from anywhere else and that supplies were flown/shipped in.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:03 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Three pages and no one has mentioned Cannon or Altus
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:04 pm to DesScorp
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:05 pm to OchoDedos
quote:
Altus
Worst time of my life was that shite hole, for fun we got some beer and watched them combine cotton.Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:05 pm to Noryev
quote:
Anyone ever deploy to Balad / LSA Anaconda?
I was with 3/4 when we OCCUPIED LSA Anaconda in April 2003.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 12:08 pm to Jbird
quote:
Maastricht.
Loved the Netherlands. Country I saw the most after Germany.
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