What bases were you stationed at?

Lackland AFB....6 weeks of basic training
Lowry AFB....a year of electronics training
Spangdahlem AFB, Germany. Spent almost 4 years of being a tourist in Europe...even got married there.
Seymour Johnson, NC. AFB...10 months
Takhli Thailand AFB...most of 1967...then became a civilian.
 

Della said:
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.
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There was a lovely female friend that I had, just friends, no love interest, she married an American, we used to visit them once, often twice a year. We fell in love with their retirement home in Savannah Georgia. Our visits were always a day or two with our friends then we would go off exploring.
We reciprocated their hospitality, they always loved coming to see us. A favourite of theirs would be to accompany them on an open top bus touring the famous sights of London, after which we would take them to wherever in our capital city was on their wish list.

sadly both my friend and her husband have passed away and we no longer venture further than our own shores, but living where do, on the edge of the very scenic New Forest, we get many visitors from both the UK and abroad.

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Here seen on the tour bus leaving the Beaulieu (it's pronounced Bew to rhyme with you. Lee, Beaulieu pronounced BewLee,) world-famous National Motor Museum that has one of the finest collections of cars, motorcycles and motoring memorabilia in the world.
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My dad was 20 year career U.S. Army. Our family all went to live with him in all those assignments except for South Korea.
Germany
Vienna, Austria
Washington DC
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Ft Mammoth, New Jersey
(Training for The Signal Corps)
Taichung, Taiwan
Ft.Lewis, Washington
Ft Gordon, Georgia
Kleine Brogel, AB, Belgium
South Korea
 
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The Spousal Equivalent's father was career Navy, a corpsman. After WWII ended, he was moved from Naval hospital to Naval hospital till he retired, all Washington DC and points south all the way down to Mayport, FL. The S.E. attended 11 schools, three of them in one year.

Some "military brats" gain a lot of experience by living in different places; some just get their lives uprooted over and over again.

The S.E. himself was in the Navy for 11 years, starting with boot at Great Lakes and ending up as an instructor at Great Lakes. In between he was on four different ships; Mediterranean and Caribbean cruises only. What a rough duty, huh? He got a lot of shore leave in very interesting places. He left the Navy because he was going to have to go to sea again and he had received an offer of a good job with the Department of Defense.

Interesting thing was that he applied for "Father-and-Son Duty" on his dad's ship (dad had been ordered back to sea at that point and then retired after that) and got it for his first sea duty. Not too many guys can say they served with their dads.
 
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US Navy
Great Lakes 1957
USN Comm Training...Imperial Beach Ca. 1958
Usn Comm Station Wahiawa Hawaii 59-60-61
USN Comm Station Taipei, Formosa 62-64
USN Comm Station Winter Harbor ME...64-66
TAD duty at Nav Air Station Key West Florida (cuban Missle Crisis)....
 
Basic training Ft Dix. then on to Ft Benning A.I.T (11B). After that, I guess technically Long binh/Bien Hoa (came into country there). Then spent time in Cat Lai. (exploring the wonders of rice paddies and leeches). Then, on to Long Khanh province and Xuan Loc. (there I get to explore the dense jungle, lots of snakes and some rubber plantations).
Then came the real adventure... Fire Support Base Brown in Cambodia. (now I get to see a trained enemy up close and personal).
After all that, I'm transferred to the 25th inf. based in Cu Chi. (a place riddled with tunnels)
Yeah... a good time was had by all... NOT
 
Dave03 said:
That's what the base was called. Pond Barracks.
3rd Recon Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

I was in I Troop. I was there from 1983 to early 1985.

It doesn't exist anymore. It's been torn down. The town of Amberg was, at one point, completely surrounded by a moat.
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You would not recognize Amberg.
 
Lackland AFB; 161st Air Refueling Group, AZ Air National Guard, Civil Engineering Squadron; Luke AFB 56th Medical Group; Northern Arizona University AFROTC Det 027, Flagstaff, AZ; Maxwell AFB, Alabama; Lowry AFB, Colorado; 10th Medical Grp, AF Academy Hospital, Colorado; 187th Alabama Air National Guard, Montgomery, AL
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Lackland AFB; 161st Air Refueling Group, AZ Air National Guard, Civil Engineering Squadron; Luke AFB 56th Medical Group; Northern Arizona University AFROTC Det 027, Flagstaff, AZ; Maxwell AFB, Alabama; Lowry AFB, Colorado; 10th Medical Grp, AF Academy Hospital, Colorado; 187th Alabama Air National Guard, Montgomery, AL
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you were all over the us!
 
rbtvgo said:
were you a nurse?
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No. I was a civil engineering technician first; then a medic; then got commissioned - was made an education and training officer; then got my Master's degree and became a Hospital and Medical Clinic Administrator. When I was medically retired from the AF, I went back and got a second bachelor's degree - in Nursing at age 51. Did that with Civil Service/civilian for three years. Neonatal Intensive Care nursing. Rather a backwards progression, no? ;):)
 
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you were all over the us!
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Well, I was raising four children at the same time and shaped my career around the kids. Was able to move in and out of Air Guard, AF Reserves, Active Duty. Didn't help my career rank progression much, but the kids did very well. All are full time employed, tax payers now aged 31, 37, 39, 48. I was busy, busy, busy. Retirement is boring in comparison.
 
It's funny but I find myself reaching into the past. Not sure why. Memories are so vivid, like yesterday. I suppose that it has more to do with balancing the books in your life account. Plus or minus, so to speak. Did I make a difference? Did I contribute my efforts to this great country we live in. Don't know. Think I did but..........
Quit frankly no response will make a difference in what I am thinking and why.m Post or delete???????
 
rbtvgo said:
It's funny but I find myself reaching into the past. Not sure why. Memories are so vivid, like yesterday. I suppose that it has more to do with balancing the books in your life account. Plus or minus, so to speak. Did I make a difference? Did I contribute my efforts to this great country we live in. Don't know. Think I did but..........
Quit frankly no response will make a difference in what I am thinking and why.m Post or delete????
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I have found it impossible to leave the past. It is so etched into my brain. No amount of therapy has blunted or dimmed the painful memories of my time in Nam. Did we make a difference? I don't think we'll ever know.
Hang in there.
 
squatting dog said:
I have found it impossible to leave the past. It is so etched into my brain. No amount of therapy has blunted or dimmed the painful memories of my time in Nam. Did we make a difference? I don't think we'll ever know.
Hang in there.
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overall yes. Why....................all I can think is that , like us, they wanted their independence and they worked and suffered for it. But they have it
I am happy that they did.
I am not happy for the cost to our country. I am not happy for the pain and suffering that we went through. I am not happy for the lives that were cut short in per-suite of God Knows what. But I can look beyond all that and see that we did our job. We did our job! You did your job. God knows what you did and why. His agenda is different then ours.
We live in the greatest country in the world. God blesses us. We are who we are. We can help others and we can kick ass when we feel the need.
You are part of that big picture. You did make a difference. Do not dwell on the particularizes. We all have those to dwell on.
YOU ARE OKAY
bob
 
Inept said:
"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. 🥵
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Those things were known to be happening among some people. I was living there then and there were loud whispers.
 

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