What bases were you stationed at?

Began @ Lackland AFB/Sheppard AFB. Then (2) 18 months (63-65) - Kadena/Torrie Station, Okinawa. 23 months (65-67) - Cambria (sp) Fritz K Darmstadt, Gemany - both/w USAFSS, non-combat.
 
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Lackland AFB in Texas, Keesler AFB in Mississippi, and Travis AFB in Calif for most of my hitch.
Travis was good for me because I could hitch-hike home in a couple hours.
 

Royal Air Force Lakenheath is a RAF military base that is run and operated by the US Air Force. It exclusively hosts American troops.
The base has The Liberty Club, that offers dining and entertainment to club members and their guests. It features a fabulous theatre and a ballroom. I can tell you they put on some rocking good nights there. Have any of our American cousins been based here the UK?
 
I visited my friend at Ft. Leonard Wood 1966. The Army's Largest training center. The Fog so thick I had to get out of the car and walk up to the sign to be able to read it.
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I visited my brother at Fort Campbell, Ky. 101st. in1969. It was very hot, went out to observe the tanks firing at targets down in the Valley at night.
Ft. Knox didn't have much gold back then.
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Saw where a Tank had hit a Tree Stump, tank broke and sitting there waiting for a Tank Tow. Horrible scars on the Countryside too.
It wasn't a normal sized Stump. Maybe they didn't want to go to Viet Nam.
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Me married with son and I going to a Graduate school. I didn't wanna go either.
 
horseless carriage said:
Royal Air Force Lakenheath is a RAF military base that is run and operated by the US Air Force. It exclusively hosts American troops.
The base has The Liberty Club, that offers dining and entertainment to club members and their guests. It features a fabulous theatre and a ballroom. I can tell you they put on some rocking good nights there. Have any of our American cousins been based here the UK?
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My husband is USAF. He kindly put England at the top of his "wish list" on my behalf, and he got Upper Heyford RAF. What a dream assignment! Sure we all experienced the lack of closets and bizarre bathtubs with the cold spigot on one side and the hot on the other and called it a "hardship tour" which gets extra money. LOL We all knew how lucky we were. England in the spring was so beautiful it made me cry every time I looked out the window. I wasn't about to live on base so we found a nice semi-detached in Barford St. Michael.

He had been in Thailand, Korea and Arizona before me (don't know the base names) met me at Wright Patterson AB, then we went to Ft Myer (Pentagon,) then England, then Robins AB in Georgia.
 
Pappy said:
Fort Dix, NJ
Aberdeen Proving grounds, MD
Fort Ord, CA
Camp Rogers, CA
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"Aberdeen Proving grounds, MD"?

Let me tell you a true story. Back at Fort Leonard Wood (1966) there were notices on the bulletin board looking for volunteers for experiments at Edgewood Arsenal which was part of Aberdeen Proving grounds. Volunteers were offered extra pay. So, I asked some of the guys at HQ if they knew anything about it. They told me it would be simple experiments such as how penicillin affects smokers as opposed to non-smokers. That’s not what was going on but no one really knew. I volunteered, thinking I would get extra pay plus see the east coast for the first time. But, I was sent to Vietnam instead and I forgot all about it.

Fast forward to about 1983 and I was watching TV, a documentary film about those experiments. It was all secret stuff within Project MK ULTRA. The experiments were secretly subjecting soldiers to LSD and observing their behaviour. The soldiers themselves had no idea what was happening to them and they had to sign a waiver not to talk about what was going on …… not even to doctors, ever! Some pretty bad things happened to those soldiers including madness, suicide, and life-altering illnesses. I was shocked but considered myself lucky to have been sent to Vietnam instead. 🥵
 
Boot camp Great Lakes Ill.
Argentia, Newfoundland
Jet Engine school Memphis Tenn.
Roosevelt Roads Naval Air station Puert Rico.

Lakehurst Naval Station Lakehurst N. J.
split the responsibility for jet engine repair with another enlisted jet engine mechanic. Was QC inspector [quality control inspector] for all the General Electric T-58 engines that were going to resupply the damaged ones in Viet Nam.
General Electric T58 - Wikipedia

Miramar Naval Air station San Diego Cal.

Met a lot of really nice people & the rise in enlisted rate & responsibility helped me later in life.
 
In the US Navy, bases are often large metal objects which are painted haze gray and move around a lot. I served on two of those "bases" home ported in San Diego and cruising all over the Pacific Ocean. My last base was a shore facility on Point Loma in San Diego.
 
Lackland AFB
Lowry AFB
Shepard AFB
Anderson AFB
Da Nang AFB
Shemya AFB
Offutt AFB
RAF Wethersfield
RAF Alconbury
Riyadh AFB
March AFB

A few other shorter deployments sprinkled in-between my 20+ years.

@horseless carriage we would make the drive from RAF Alconbury to Lakenheath for the club.
They knew how to party and had a fun Golf Course.
 
As a Navy wife.. we were based during the 70's at

HMS Sultan Gosport

HMS Hermes and Ajax @Devonport Plymouth

HMS Warrior Northwood..

RAF ( yes an RAF camp ) Uxbridge
 
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