What bases were you stationed at?

dusty said:
Those things were known to be happening among some people. I was living there then and there were loud whispers.
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Really? I guess it was like the NAZI extermination camps and the local towns people claimed they "knew nothing about it".
 
Bootcamp, San Diego California
Combat Systems Schools Command, Mare Island, Vallejo California
USS Bainbridge CGN-25, Norfolk Virginia
Combat Systems Schools Command, Mare Island, Vallejo California
Fleet Combat Training Center Pacific, Point Loma California
USS Callaghan DDG-994, Everett Washington
USS Stephen W. Groves FFG-29, Pascagoula Mississippi
Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic, Dam Neck Virginia
USS John F. Kennedy CV-67, Mayport Florida
 
dusty said:
Really! I lived in the DC area for over 30 years as the wife of a federal Secret Service agent. Guess maybe I might have heard some things...but wait! There's more....
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I'm sure there's LOTS more. For example, what was the name of that agent who exited by way of the window?
 
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I'd like to make an observation here: Notice how many more posts are from former USAF or USN than Army or Marines? IMHO it's because there are fewer of them alive thanks to Agent Orange. I've been to half dozen Agent Orange funerals. I was lucky, when in basic in late 72 we were informed we'd not be going to Vietnam.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
I still call it that, after 50 years. If you don't like the weather, stick around for 20 minutes... It'll change.

And Fort Lewis in Washington was "Fort Lowest."
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Yep. I was sent to Vietnam from Oakland Army Terminal (California) and returned to Fort Lewis one year and two days later.
 
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Inept said:
Yep. I was sent to Vietnam from Oakland Army Terminal (California) and returned to Fort Lewis one year and two days later.
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Well, it seems we've stomped on the same ground a time or two.

To you, and all other Vets here...

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Axel Slingerland said:
Well, it seems we've stomped on the same ground a time or two.

To you, and all other Vets here...

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And thank you, too. When people here in Europe are astonished that I am a Vietnam War veteran I usually reply, "Who at my age wasn't in Vietnam?" We were all sent over at 19. You too? In fact, the three nights I was at Oakland Army Terminal (waiting for my port call) there was a young E-2 pulling guard duty every night. I asked him if Oakland was his duty station. He replied, "Sort of." I didn't understand what he meant so he told me. He was 16 and already had his orders for Vietnam but because of his age he had to wait for his 19th birthday before they could ship him out. Willow weep for me.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
I still call it that, after 50 years. If you don't like the weather, stick around for 20 minutes... It'll change.

And Fort Lewis in Washington was "Fort Lowest."
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I actually liked Fort Lewis. Spent a lot of time in Yakima and married a local. I was a supply Sgt and spent most my time in town after I issued supplies before maneuvers. Came back to sign in supplies and back to my motel or fiances house. I was there when Mount Saint Helens blew. Spent a lot of time weekends in Seattle. Used to hang out the Wapato res. Good times.
 
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  • Ft. Jackson, SC - basic training and AIT (cook school)
  • Ft. Devens, MA - US Army Security Agency School Brigade
  • Army Element, Navy School of Music - Little Creek, VA
  • Ft. Devens, MA - 18th Army Band
  • Ansbach, Germany - 1st Armored Division Band
  • Ft. Hood, TX - 2nd Armored Division Band
  • West Berlin, Germany - 298th Army Band
  • Bad Kreuznach, Germany - 8th Infantry Division Band (reflagged to 1st Armored Division Band after the Gulf War)
  • Ft. Living Room (multiple states since retirement from active duty)
 
Since I grew up on military bases, had a lot of addresses.
Started way back when I was delivered at Ft. Gordon Army base.
In a small way, always felt these bases were kind-of-like I was 'stationed' at them.
Dad was in the Navy from my birth till I joined up.

When I was up for a new Clearance while in the service, I wrote my dad and requested all the places
we lived, to put on the form.
Pretty long list and found out a lot of them no longer existed.

Continued this and have a list of all the addresses I've live at since joining up in 1970.
Another long list and a lot are also gone.

In my case, it's really true "You Can Never Go Home"...
 
Eupher said:
  • Ft. Jackson, SC - basic training and AIT (cook school)
  • Ft. Devens, MA - US Army Security Agency School Brigade
  • Army Element, Navy School of Music - Little Creek, VA
  • Ft. Devens, MA - 18th Army Band
  • Ansbach, Germany - 1st Armored Division Band
  • Ft. Hood, TX - 2nd Armored Division Band
  • West Berlin, Germany - 298th Army Band
  • Bad Kreuznach, Germany - 8th Infantry Division Band (reflagged to 1st Armored Division Band after the Gulf War)
  • Ft. Living Room (multiple states since retirement from active duty)
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Since you were a cook I found the Army had good food no complaints , granted often C-rations but when the cooks were able to cook they knew what they were doing to this day I like cream beef and buy it .

Oklahoma boot camp / AIT 102 howitzers
An Khe , Air Cav the land of the Huey
Panama , Sherman .

Artillery and Infantry Air Cavalry though attached , same lousy base are not same , we did NOT go out with them and risk our necks .
 
Eupher said:
  • Ft. Jackson, SC - basic training and AIT (cook school)
  • Ft. Devens, MA - US Army Security Agency School Brigade
  • Army Element, Navy School of Music - Little Creek, VA
  • Ft. Devens, MA - 18th Army Band
  • Ansbach, Germany - 1st Armored Division Band
  • Ft. Hood, TX - 2nd Armored Division Band
  • West Berlin, Germany - 298th Army Band
  • Bad Kreuznach, Germany - 8th Infantry Division Band (reflagged to 1st Armored Division Band after the Gulf War)
  • Ft. Living Room (multiple states since retirement from active duty)
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What made you wind up in Arkansas after retiring ?

I ask because since you did 20 you can use commissary / PX , etc and would have thought being near a huge base like ft. Hood would have been the way to go .
 
NotCompSavy said:
What made you wind up in Arkansas after retiring ?

I ask because since you did 20 you can use commissary / PX , etc and would have thought being near a huge base like ft. Hood would have been the way to go .
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After retirement from the Army, I lived more than a few years in Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi, far removed from military installations. In Utah, where I lived for 4 years, I had to drive 40 miles one-way to get to Hill AFB. I didn't find it necessarily advantageous.

Chasing after jobs is the basic reason for moving around like that.

But here in Arkansas, I live about 5 miles from Little Rock AFB -- the home of the C-130 aircraft. LRAFB is small and I do not use the commissary or base exchange that much. Price differential is essentially zero, even when you consider there's no sales tax. But the base pharmacy is a definite advantage -- I pay zero for my meds.
 
NotCompSavy said:
Since you were a cook I found the Army had good food no complaints , granted often C-rations but when the cooks were able to cook they knew what they were doing to this day I like cream beef and buy it .

Oklahoma boot camp / AIT 102 howitzers
An Khe , Air Cav the land of the Huey
Panama , Sherman .

Artillery and Infantry Air Cavalry though attached , same lousy base are not same , we did NOT go out with them and risk our necks .
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My experience as an Army cook was limited -- only 2+ years, but I was lucky in that I served stateside. I also worked quite a bit with civilian cooks, all of whom were much more experienced than I. I still think of them fondly. One of them was a retired mess sergeant who retired out of the very mess hall (dining facility) we were working in!

Another civilian cook had served as an infantry LRRP in Vietnam. Great guy, but he insisted on putting garlic in EVERYTHING! LOL
 

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