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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:46:12 AM EDT
 (I'm wondering if this has changed greatly over the years, too. When I was a little boy, we had huge bases all over Germany that I understand are all gone) |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:48:13 AM EDT
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Hunter Army Airfield Savannah Ga
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:50:37 AM EDT
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A lot of that it dependant on the individual. I knew people who absoluted hated Hawaii when I was there and wanted someplace like Eielson. More remote and rural. Plus some places have way cooler missions than others.
Personally, Wiesbaden for me, circa 2012. Laid back, and location 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:50:48 AM EDT
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Ft. Polk
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:52:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ft. Polk 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:52:47 AM EDT
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Base life ebbs and flows with mission and leadership. The only real fairly constant variables are the surrounding areas, and often the quality of the infrastructure on the post itself.
For Army I would say Fort Carson Colorado, Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio TX, and JBLM in Washington state. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:54:03 AM EDT
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I hear Ft. Drum is pretty sweet
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:54:32 AM EDT
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Diego Garcia.
 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:56:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryYep beautiful beaches |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:57:01 AM EDT
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Italy is supposed to be a great place. When I was in Panama was considered one of the best places to live.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:57:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/14/2022 9:57:59 AM EDT
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Fort Huachuca, AZ
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:03:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ft. Polk 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:04:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat looks nice. I'd always heard though that it was a snake infested sauna that you got sent to by pissing off the wrong person.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:07:29 AM EDT
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FEWAFB in Cheyenne. It’s a beautiful old cavalry post updated for duty as a Strategic Missile Base.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:08:29 AM EDT
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Me personally it would either be Mainland Japan (the USAF has it best..) or Okinawa. If you like race cars, Japanese foods, Japanese women (or Australian women or European women or even American women; just don’t f with Sgt. Maj.’s daughters lmao), beautiful beaches those places have it all
 Second pick would either be Oceanside, Cali or South Korea preferably Seoul. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:09:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ft. Polk Oh yeah...wonderful place.. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:11:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryA guy I worked with was rotating back to the US and got dumped off on Diego Garcia. He had to wait a week for a flight out and that he spent the time on the beach… never said how nice it was! |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:11:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Italy is supposed to be a great place. When I was in Panama was considered one of the best places to live. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:14:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh yeah...wonderful place.. Lol it's a top vacation spot. What a shit hole. I've never seen a more dilapidated place in my army travels. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:15:08 AM EDT
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The Navy base in Yokosuka Japan was great in the 90's compared to most of the others I had been to. The only one that was nicer was NAS North Island, all the benefits of being in San Diego, without the mess at 32nd Street.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:15:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Base life ebbs and flows with mission and leadership. The only real fairly constant variables are the surrounding areas, and often the quality of the infrastructure on the post itself. For Army I would say Fort Carson Colorado, Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio TX, and JBLM in Washington state. I think there is still an MP company at Artillery Kaserne in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. That's one of the few I can think of where living on base is probably preferred. In most places, even if the area is nice, it just sucks to live on post. Camp Humphreys in Korea is a perfect example of how to make what could be a great assignment for Joe, just eat at your soul. Korea in general is a great assignment if you don't have to live on post. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:18:04 AM EDT
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I really liked Pearl.
The kicker is I had it for shore duty doing RadCon. I really enjoyed everything except the gun laws. Bangor was pretty cool as well at the end of my career. -Mike |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:20:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol it's a top vacation spot. What a shit hole. I've never seen a more dilapidated place in my army travels. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Oh yeah...wonderful place.. Lol it's a top vacation spot. What a shit hole. I've never seen a more dilapidated place in my army travels. I remember it being so hot and humid the fucking insects came in for the air conditioning |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:31:49 AM EDT
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Ramstein is pretty awesome, heavy with expat Americans but a great golf course...but then so are Aviano AB, RAF Mildenhall, Kadena AB, Papa Air Base Hungary, Geilenkirchen NATO Air Base Germany, Anderson AFB Guam, Yokota Air Base Japan (it's 36 kilometers from Tokyo), Elemendorf Air Base, Anchorage Alaska, Det 1, Souda Bay Crete...lots of options, kind of depends on what you're looking for.
I was stationed at three of these choices, and did protracted TDYs at the remainder. Great adventures at all of them. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:32:58 AM EDT
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Hawaii
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:33:04 AM EDT
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Lemoore, ca
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:35:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryIf you love beating your dick like it owes you money. Aren't there sharks in the water so no diving? Kharn |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:36:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryExcellent choice. Never been, but everyone I know whos gone says the fishing is amazing. I personally loved Osan AB. Also had fun in Kandahar and Bagram. A Buddy of mine runs the flightline at Rota NAS, and Rota is a really cool town. Japan was cool, but my unit was fucking trash so that ruined it. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:36:16 AM EDT
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When it was open, Roosevelt Roads.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:36:21 AM EDT
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Ft. Sill
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:36:25 AM EDT
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Although long gone, my favorite 40+ years ago was Ft. Ord, CA
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:36:32 AM EDT
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Non hostile locations? OCONUS army probably Italy but I’m going by what friends say for that. For CONUS and for active duty then Alameda if you’re Coast Guard, San Diego if you’re Navy if Army, Hawaii is expensive and the base housing is dogshit but the surfing is epic. For DLI summer weather is 70 degrees for all but 3 days the entire summer. You can scuba a short drive to Big Sur, Santa Cruz surfing, San Francisco for the wife restaurant and shopping and ski Tahoe or hop space A at Travis AFB. Overseas I’ve only been to European bases or Japan, Korea and MENA/SouthAsia. Camp Zama Japan was nice. USAF is the way to go for Japan and Korea. There’s very few nice Army locations. Worked at the Pentagon as a civilian. My duty stations conus were Ft Drum, Ft Bragg, Ft Ord {no longer exists} Ft Lewis, Schoefield barracks with training at Ft Bennning, Fort Gordon, Fort Polk, Fort Irwin, Fort Bliss, and I’ve used the PX where the MP company is in NYC. Ive been to Savannah AAF, Fort Stewart BX/PX and a few Navy posts like the one in Evergreen, WA, Mayport & Jax NAS, USAF like Travis AFB and USCG posts like Petaluma, Alameda for USMC Camp Pendleton, Camp Smith and 29 Palms more but that’s off the top of my head most of the California posts
 Attached File Attached File ENDLESS SURF ON THE NORTH SHORE (HAWAII) |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:36:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A lot of that it dependant on the individual. I knew people who absoluted hated Hawaii when I was there and wanted someplace like Eielson. More remote and rural. Plus some places have way cooler missions than others. Personally, Wiesbaden for me, circa 2012. Laid back, and location |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:37:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep beautiful beaches Don't the green dipshit Brits run the place? |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:38:00 AM EDT
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The one near your house.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:38:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryBite your tongue. Me and a couple thousand of my closest friends spent 9 months there in ‘90-‘91. Lots to do - takes about a week to do them all. The wild chickens (‘Queen’s animals’) were getting painted different colors by the end of the first month. Then all the temper tents were blown away in a storm… it went downhill from there. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:40:11 AM EDT
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Fulda back in the 80's was a great place to be stationed. The exchange rate was 3-1 and lots of good German beer and women could be bought.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:41:44 AM EDT
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Ft Sam was my favorite...back in the 60's though...
I doubt it's much like my memories today. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:42:04 AM EDT
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Schofield Barracks Hawaii where I was stationed for three years back in the day.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:42:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Non hostile locations? OCONUS army probably Italy but I’m going by what friends say for that. For CONUS and for active duty then Alameda if you’re Coast Guard, San Diego if you’re Navy if Army, Hawaii is expensive and the base housing is dogshit but the surfing is epic. For DLI summer weather is 70 degrees for all but 3 days the entire summer. You can scuba a short drive to Big Sur, Santa Cruz surfing, San Francisco for the wife restaurant and shopping and ski Tahoe or hop space A at Travis AFB. Overseas I’ve only been to European bases or Japan, Korea and MENA/SouthAsia. Camp Zamia Japan was nice. USAF is the way to go for Japan and Korea. There’s very few nice Army locations. My duty stations conus were Ft Drum, Ft Bragg, Ft Ord {no longer exists} Ft Lewis, Schoefield barracks with training at Ft Bennning, Fort Gordon, Fort Bliss, and the PX where the MP company is in NYC. Ive been to Savannah AAF, Fort Stewart BX/PX and a a few Navy posts like the one in Evergreen, WA, Mayport & Jax NAS, USAF like Travis AFB and USCG posts like Petaluma, Alameda more but that’s off the top of my head https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/175355C5-6154-447F-A01C-9792F82F0158_jpe-2383389.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/A6B8587B-003D-4C31-AF72-CBCC9A89E3CA_png-2383390.JPG  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oci0CqUU5KIWere you ASA? |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:42:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol it's a top vacation spot. What a shit hole. I've never seen a more dilapidated place in my army travels. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Oh yeah...wonderful place.. Lol it's a top vacation spot. What a shit hole. I've never seen a more dilapidated place in my army travels. Ever been to Ft. Chaffee, AR? Ft. Chaffee was JRTC’s original home before it moved to Polk (1988-1993). Chaffee is the ultimate shithole. WWII style barracks full of asbestos, no medical facilities but they did try to hook us up with a little snack bar, and most of the base was condemned. The Army couldn’t officially station us there because it was so dilapidated, so they pretended we were stationed at LRAFB and all our records were kept at Ft. Sill. I had to TDY to Sill to ETS. They renovated one row of buildings so we could live there, but only removed the asbestos from the laundry room. My barracks was two buildings down from where Elvis got his first Army haircut (now it’s a Barbershop Museum) Ft. Chaffee had absolutely nothing for us but a couple of old buildings full of black widows. The town outside Ft. Chaffee is called Ft. Smith. Ft. Smith has grown quite a lot since then (I went back a couple of years ago) but when JRTC was at Chaffee, Ft. Smith was a backwoods little town with nothing to do. The most happening spot in Ft. Smith was Taco Bell. The locals weren’t happy the Army put an active duty unit there. It had been closed for so long the locals hunted/poached there year round. We had a unit cycle through JRTC every month and we were always plagued with locals shining deer in the maneuver area at night. We’d hear shotguns and everything would come to a halt while we waited for the local sheriff to come chase off his cousin Skeeter. Ironically, they moved us to Polk because it had just undergone a major overhaul for 5th ID. The 5th was deactivated so they moved us to what was considered one of the most modern Army bases LOL. I ETS’d right before the move to lucked out I guess.  |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:44:37 AM EDT
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Fort Dix, New Jersey.
For ETS out processing. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:45:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you love beating your dick like it owes you money. Aren't there sharks in the water so no diving? Kharn You could swim in the lagoon, but the outer waters were no-go. The sharks would get caught inside the barrier reef at low tide. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:46:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hunter Army Airfield Savannah Ga If you’re a drinker or like Spanish moss trees and the architecture. Fun for Halloween, fuck July and August weather. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:46:14 AM EDT
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If you like to hunt, fish, hike, Ft Wainwright.
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:47:21 AM EDT
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Fort Erwin, California.
Come see both of our luxurious shopettes, or dine at our exclusive local Pizza Hut or call ahead for a romantic dinner night at the Burger King located in the historic RUBA. Conveniently located at least an hour and a half from the nearest civilization on one of the most heavily policed desert straightaways in the southwest. Enjoy complimentary passes our many beaches(water not included) and wonderful rock art. Invest your hard earned pay in $35 burritos from food trucks, or catch a DUI charge on your off day returning from Barstow. Whatever your needs, Fort Irwin has you covered. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:47:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ft. Polk 
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:48:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fort Erwin, California. Come see both of our luxurious shopettes, or dine at our exclusive local Pizza Hut or call ahead for a romantic dinner night at the Burger King located in the historic RUBA. Conveniently located at least an hour and a half from the nearest civilization on one of the most heavily policed desert straightaways in the southwest. Enjoy complimentary passes our many beaches(water not included) and wonderful rock art. Invest your hard earned pay in $35 burritos from food trucks, or catch a DUI charge on your off day returning from Barstow. Whatever your needs, Fort Irwin has you covered. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:48:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fulda back in the 80's was a great place to be stationed. The exchange rate was 3-1 and lots of good German beer and women could be bought. https://cf.bstatic.com/xdata/images/city/1680x560/610241.jpg?k=7ecc7f1ee56641621bd1391f8ab58eb6525cc11858726d381a5c1d17c5a6935a&o= I don’t think you could go wrong at any Army bases in Germany except maybe Wildflecken (fuck the fence!) I wasn’t too far from Fulda, in Budingen. Germany is beautiful and has so much history. |
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Posted: 5/14/2022 10:49:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Base life ebbs and flows with mission and leadership. The only real fairly constant variables are the surrounding areas, and often the quality of the infrastructure on the post itself. For Army I would say Fort Carson Colorado, Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio TX, and JBLM in Washington state. A friend with 4th ID loved it. I’ve never been. But I heard the women off post aren’t fat like so many other locations so that’s another plus. Medics all say they had fun at Ft Sam but never been there either. |
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