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Posted: 9/9/2004 10:08:44 AM EDT

I'm going with haiti in the late 90's, that place makes Iraq look like a paradise

Posted: 9/9/2004 10:14:26 AM EDT

[#1]

It's a tie between cochin india and all of the west african countries- amoung
the shitiest places on earth.

Posted: 9/9/2004 10:46:33 AM EDT

[#2]

Oman. Operation Bright Star, Nov. '89. We were the first ever to jump in a certain area. Lots of injuries. The environment sucked and we slept on softball sized rocks for 3 weeks.

Posted: 9/9/2004 3:34:11 PM EDT

[#3]

JRTC at Ft. Polk

, really I would say as one of the first unit's into Bosnia back in 94-95 man that was sucked worse than being in the desert.

Posted: 9/9/2004 4:31:56 PM EDT

[#4]

Easy - to the bilges of the USS Okinawa for fighting, while on our way to viet nam. Made the heat of viet nam seem cool by comparison.

Posted: 9/9/2004 4:42:00 PM EDT

[#5]

Fort Polk in July and August followed by:

Landing Zones

Andy (Quan Loi)
Pearson
Don
Judie
David
Buttons
Tommie
Thomas
Candy
Speer (Cambodia)
11 Bravo
Mo
Jeannie
Sally

And a bunch of swamps in between.

Posted: 9/9/2004 4:44:15 PM EDT

[#6]

I vote for sub-saharan Africa and their penchant for AIDS and Ebola

Posted: 9/9/2004 4:46:29 PM EDT

[#7]

On the Yalu River between NK and the PRC

Posted: 9/9/2004 4:54:48 PM EDT

[#8]

+1 for Haiti was there during the Aristide coup....

Kampala Uganda was a real craphole too...

Posted: 9/9/2004 5:00:59 PM EDT

[#9]

I'm sure there are worse places but the two that was worse for me was Nam and living with my ex. (Not necessarly in that order.)

Posted: 9/9/2004 5:04:27 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
On the Yalu River between NK and the PRC

Really? You were there? When?

This would definitely be a good story to hear.

Posted: 9/9/2004 5:09:04 PM EDT

[#11]

Haiti is one nasty-ass place. Might as well live in a landfill.

Posted: 9/9/2004 5:47:53 PM EDT

[#12]

Accidental lock

Posted: 9/9/2004 5:48:13 PM EDT

[#13]

Accidental lock

Posted: 9/9/2004 9:37:14 PM EDT

[#14]

This is an easy one:

Kandahar, Assghanistan

Posted: 9/9/2004 11:28:17 PM EDT

[#15]

Haiti, 1994.
Jumpmaster Base.

I hated it so much I went back, to Camp Fairwinds.

Posted: 9/10/2004 11:03:38 AM EDT

[#16]

Panama, 1991. Hot, muggy, jungle smell. I'm only saying this cuz I hate BUGS!

Posted: 9/10/2004 6:22:37 PM EDT

[#17]

Somalia
Asscrackistan
Iraq
Korea

Posted: 9/10/2004 6:32:05 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Panama, 1991. Hot, muggy, jungle smell. I'm only saying this cuz I hate BUGS!

It was a bit rough in '89 as well.

Posted: 9/11/2004 7:07:49 AM EDT

[#19]

DC. Smells bad, people want to kill you. God I hate politicians.

Posted: 9/11/2004 5:02:53 PM EDT

[#20]

Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia in July 1996.

Posted: 9/12/2004 7:08:51 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
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Panama, 1991. Hot, muggy, jungle smell. I'm only saying this cuz I hate BUGS!

It was a bit rough in '89 as well.

I had a lot of fun there in 1990.

Fort Dix, NJ was the worst.

Posted: 9/12/2004 9:11:14 PM EDT

[#22]

El Salvador in 1987. San Salvador was a rough town.

Aviator

Posted: 9/13/2004 8:42:30 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
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Panama, 1991. Hot, muggy, jungle smell. I'm only saying this cuz I hate BUGS!

It was a bit rough in '89 as well.

The minute I entered that the same thought went through my mind. I feel like a whiney asshat now...Is there a smiley for that?

Posted: 9/13/2004 8:45:51 AM EDT

[#24]

Meridain MS 1980 and Beirut 1982-83

Posted: 9/13/2004 10:17:39 AM EDT

[#25]

Cleveland

Posted: 9/13/2004 11:00:46 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Cleveland

Welcome to the board ozob. Happy to have you here.

Posted: 9/13/2004 11:05:42 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
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Panama, 1991. Hot, muggy, jungle smell. I'm only saying this cuz I hate BUGS!

It was a bit rough in '89 as well.

The minute I entered that the same thought went through my mind. I feel like a whiney asshat now...Is there a smiley for that?

Actually, if I hadn't been there for the conflict, I'd still have to agree with you. I went there earlier for JOTC and got my butt kicked by the Majenga Swamp and those barbed black needles sticking out from the trees. I've seen some of the ugliest and most beautiful living creatures down in Central America.

Posted: 9/15/2004 4:31:42 PM EDT

[#28]

Gonzo Station, North Arabian Sea, 1981,82,83,84, USS Midway CV-41....A very old carrier sitting off the coast in the heat, flying 24/7, waiting for the politicians to make up their fucking minds to do something. A close second would be the port of Fuajirah, UAE last year driving patrol boats. heat, sand, shitty command staff and about the only good thing about heat was that it was too hot for bugs to live.

Posted: 9/15/2004 5:34:16 PM EDT

[#29]

Ft. Dix is without a doubt the most broke dick post I've ever spent time on. The absolute worst chow I've ever eaten. It's only saving grace is it's proximity to the shore, NYC, and other cultural attractions.

Camp Olins, Belgum wasn't a bad place, but absoutly nothing to do. The Flemmish do not eat eggs for breakfast, and it took a great deal of pursuation, (i.e. direct threats), to get them to make them for us.

Quoted:
Fort Dix, NJ was the worst.

Posted: 9/15/2004 5:49:15 PM EDT

[#30]

cleveland aint got poo on detroit

even the cops will car jack ya there

Posted: 9/16/2004 7:17:36 PM EDT

[#31]

Khobar towers, Dhahran, KSA
25 Jun 1996

Posted: 9/16/2004 7:32:02 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Cleveland

My house/home is in Cleveland and it's not bad there. FWIW, I lived in Chicago prior to that.

I also spent two years as an Infantryman in Panama and you learn to tolerate the heat, bugs, rotting vegetation smell, etc.

Bali Doogle Somalia gets my vote for worst place I've been. This was in 1985.

Posted: 9/16/2004 7:36:32 PM EDT

[#33]

I know that there are many place we all call HELL, mine is were I now live. THe North Slope of Alaska is a frozen hell if ever there was one. Yes, this is a third world up here. Many of the houses are still using honey buckets.

Posted: 9/16/2004 7:43:22 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
cleveland aint got poo on detroit

even the cops will car jack ya there

Tha Motor City! Many unmentionable adventures have been had in that city. Dangerous indeed. There is no other place like it in this world.

Posted: 9/18/2004 3:59:44 PM EDT

[#35]

Lackland AFB back in 88....they didn't let us have our cappuchino lattes in the morning!

Seriously, I've had a lot of fun everywhere I've been. Worst DUTY I've had is current assignment. Recruiting SUCKS

Posted: 9/18/2004 8:29:21 PM EDT

[#36]

Toss up between Peru ,Columbia 00-01, Egypt and Yemen 99-00.

Posted: 9/22/2004 7:56:19 PM EDT

[#37]

Afghanistan - Currently there, all around the country. Sucks balls.

Posted: 9/22/2004 8:08:06 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Afghanistan - Currently there, all around the country. Sucks balls.

Welcome! Be safe and don't forget to post in the deployed members thread (tacked at the top of this forum).

Posted: 9/22/2004 8:37:32 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Easy - to the bilges of the USS Okinawa for fighting, while on our way to viet nam. Made the heat of viet nam seem cool by comparison.

LOL, I can top that! How about a bilge level storeroom off the engineroom of a flat bottom LST rocking and rolling with nasty smelling bilge water sloshing around, paint brush in hand, while leaving the rivers and hitting the high seas off Vietnam! The first and only time I ever got seasick. I think they sent me down there to get a laugh, but I fooled them, I spent the rest of the day in my rack while they worked!

Posted: 9/23/2004 3:04:45 AM EDT

[#40]

It's a toss up between Wrightstown, NJ, and Mogadishu. (Inside joke for those who served sentences at McGuire/Ft Dix).

I was a C-141 FE in the '86-'89 time frame. We made a stop at Mogadishu to drop some stuff off. Doing my walk-around after landing, I discovered that one of the upper spoiler panels was stuck in the ground position. Taking a closer look, the drive quadrant had shattered. Not good.

The AC asked is we wanted to call for a mainetnance team to be flown in and go into crew rest. We looked around and told him we were definitely NOT staying. I borrowed a drill from the guy who maintained our embassy airplane and we bolted the offending spoiler down. It was a lot of work under that hot sun, but well worth it.

I almost said that I was in Mogadishu before it got bad, but it's always been bad there.