Current Events > Have you ever visited a military base?

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Where have you been and what was your experience? Those who have served, where have you been posted/stationed? Doesn't have to be US.

Nice try, China.

Yes when visiting my cousin down south

BLooD_WoLf posted...

Nice try, China.

lmao

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Yeah. I worked out of Vandenberg space force Base for a few weeks when on travel for work.

Also was on a different base visiting some family that lived there.

Not really sure what you're asking though. Why the work one, I just went to the area my company controlled, and I'd also go to the base gym at times also.

And then with the other one, I only really saw the family living areas. Pretty much just a neighborhood with single family homes

A couple. As a kid in Illinois our town was right next to an air force base, and being that my grandfather was an air force vet we could go on base. Plus they had an open house every year where you could go get tours of the various training areas and see some of the aircraft.

Then there was Ft. McClellan, Alabama where I did my time in the Army.

Both my parents served in the airforce (dad for about 10 years, mom for 20) I was born in the Langley air force base hospital, and probably spent some days there in daycare. Also visited McDill a few times because my mom was stationed there.

I've never served, and haven't been on a base since I was a kid. Mom left the air force when I was in middle school

I served 4 years, and lived on post at Ft. Dix, NJ; Ft. Benning, GA; Ft. Sill, OK; Ft. Leonard Wood, MS; Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA, and Camp NY in Kuwait.

Just wondering about others experiences, I know we have a few on CE that serve or have served.

My dad was in the army

In the 80s I lived on base in Alaska

Fort Richardson next to Anchorage

Then we moved to PA and we never lived on base again but I visited Fort Indian Town Gap

Then we moved to WA and lived near Fort Lewis

I also was on a base in Everett Washington but I don't remember the name

I think that's every military base I have been to

Zikten posted...

My dad was in the army

In the 80s I lived on base in Alaska

Fort Richardson next to Anchorage

Then we moved to PA and we never lived on base again but I visited Fort Indian Town Gap

Then we moved to WA and lived near Fort Lewis

I also was on a base in Everett Washington but I don't remember the name

I think that's every military base I have been to

That's kinda crazy, Indiantown Gap is a small and lesser known one, we went a couple times a year for training, I lived in East PA at the time.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I served 4 years, and lived on post at Ft. Dix, NJ; Ft. Benning, GA; Ft. Sill, OK; Ft. Leonard Wood, MS; Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA, and Camp NY in Kuwait.

Just wondering about others experiences, I know we have a few on CE that serve or have served.

In 4 years!? The Fuck you did!

I go onto Fort Wainwright once or twice a month, you can just get a day pass and go to the civvy side. There are some restaurants there that are the only ones like them in town. You can get some good stuff from the commisary too.

i lived in one for a year, karjala brigade, vekaranjrvi

Imit8m3 posted...

In 4 years!? The Fuck you did!

Logistics company, I was a driver and this was 2002, just about all reserve and national guard transportation units got activated during that time. I got moved and tossed around a lot as needed.

MabusIncarnate posted...

I served 4 years, and lived on post at Ft. Dix, NJ; Ft. Benning, GA; Ft. Sill, OK; Ft. Leonard Wood, MS; Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA, and Camp NY in Kuwait.

Just wondering about others experiences, I know we have a few on CE that serve or have served.

Damn, six posts in four years seems like a lot.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Logistics company, I was a driver and this was 2002, just about all reserve and national guard transportation units got activated during that time. I got moved and tossed around a lot as needed.

I had a friend in the national guard who got deployed to Kuwait, although that was in 2008 iirc. We were still in high school in 02.

MabusIncarnate posted...

That's kinda crazy, Indiantown Gap is a small and lesser known one, we went a couple times a year for training, I lived in East PA at the time.

Yea. I only know about it cause my dad was working there. This was from I think 1987 to 1991. Then we moved to WA. I was still pretty young back then. I turned 10 in 91

I dont really remember much about the place. Just it's name

We were living in Lebanon PA

My dad worked at Fort Leonard Wood, and we lived about 45 minutes away

When I went to Leonard Wood, we took a 12 person plane and it scared the piss out of me. You think turbulence in a commercial plane is bad? Half the flight felt like a roller coaster, dudes were puking.

California and Hawaii. Just for the commissaries though.

Every day. I work on a millitary base and im not in the millitary.

I did nine years in the air force, so a few lol

Travis AFB, Kunsan AB, RAF Mildenhall, Vance AFB, Camp Lemonnier and Chabelley Airfield were the ones I was stationed at, and I did training at Lackland AFB (I know obvious), Keesler AFB, and did some survival stuff at McGuire.

I used to work on one. (Civilian.)

yeah went to a few air shows as a kid

Ft Sill
I was visiting family that was stationed there at the time

Had an internship with the DOD working at Naval Submarine Base Bangor. As a kid we drove through Fort Lewis quite often (pre-9/11 it was no big deal getting on this particular base at least). For work I went to Fairchild AFB.

Not a base, but I did get to watch a bomb demonstration in a remote location on federal land that I can't disclose where it was. I somehow ended up being the cost account manager on that program during testing and that was the best boondoggle trip I ever went on.

Sure!

In DOOM.

plenty of times, pops is in the Air Force

As a kid, dad took us to an air show at Scott Air Force Base. Got to see the inside of an AWACS, and sit inside a fighter(forget what type).

Camp Pendleton, CA and Camp Lejeune, NC.

Pendleton is nestled right in between San Diego and Los Angeles right along the coast. Id argue its the best military installation geographically in the United States. Miss it every day, best 4 years of my enlistment.

Lejeune isnt as completely horrible as some people think it is, but it still sucks and Id never go back. Objectively the worst 4 years of my enlistment.

Ive been to dozens of other installations/posts but these are the two I spent the most time on.

Ive been on many but only actually lived on two as a kid. We lived off post when possible.

Bragg, McDill, Bliss, Stewart/Hunter

MabusIncarnate posted...

When I went to Leonard Wood, we took a 12 person plane and it scared the piss out of me. You think turbulence in a commercial plane is bad? Half the flight felt like a roller coaster, dudes were puking.

man, I live for that shit so few things put an actual smile on my face

A bunch as a kid. I miss the commissary and the PX. Used to get some good shoes, cds, and video games there.

I lived on El Torro as kid in the 90's before it shut down. I visited Camp Miramar and Pendleton a lot growing up.

Living on El Torro as a kid was pretty great, it was a fairly nice base. I also liked being around other military brats because we all more or less went through the same thing.

Used to live on one
Ft. Bragg

My Dad was in the Navy when I was a kid so I went on the base fairly frequently then after he retired he could take us on on to bases for various reasons (usually to hit up the exchange, when we visited Hawaii we would stay in military recreational sites like Bellows Air Force Station (look it up, its cool).

Then I was in the Army for four years so obviously a lot of time on bases then.

Ex-wife was in the army, have been to Ft Sill, Ft Sam Houston, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord

Does Fort Ticonderoga count?

Multiple. I work for GFS and we supply the Canadian military with large orders of food and food accessories, so have been to multiple bases around me for deliveries.

Yeah. My parents forced me into boot camp in a high school summer. Lasted four days before I got them to take me back home. The boot camp went to a military base once during those four days. Reaffirmed that I would never join the military thanks to that circus.

TheAttackTitan posted...

Yeah. My parents forced me into boot camp in a high school summer. Lasted four days before I got them to take me back home. The boot camp went to a military base once during those four days. Reaffirmed that I would never join the military thanks to that circus.

I was on a funeral detail as one of my first assignments after training at Fort Gordon. We did funerals for veterans in the area around Augusta GA. The "Youth Challenge Academy" was right next to where we were based. And we got to watch these sad looking teenage boys in oversized dirty sweat pants and sweat shirts being yelled at as they jogged an old track right near where we met up before funerals.

It seemed so fucking morbid. These poor kids being screamed at by their "Drill Sergeants" while we we carrying around coffins practicing for military funerals with taps, flag folding, and 21 gun salutes.

Leonard wood, bliss, McCoy, Campbell, gitmo, Knox

ya many times. lived in a couple too as a kid to early 20s

ive lived or visited:
misawa/yokota/atsugi (japan)
futenma/kinser/courtney/kadena/hansen/torii/foster/schwab/mctureous (okinawa, japan)
pendleton/ shepard/ lackland/ shaw/ moody / tyndall / charlotte / meade/ some base in hawaii (usa)
clark (philippines)
a military base in singapore i forgot name.

Been on most bases in Alaska for one reason or another.
Ft. Wainwright
Greeley Airforce Base
Clear Airforce Base
Eielson Airfoce Base.

I was stationed in Ft Wainwright but Ive been to every base in Alaska.

I was born on one and my dad worked at several. Was always nice to take advantage of the no tax rules when new games or systems came out. I know we bought the N64 there, and I think the GameCube as well.

I forgot that I also visited some bases in south korea.

Believe it was either camp walker or camp henry (it was in daegu) and Osan airbase.