Veterans only thread.

[mustang marty]

Hey, where's the best and worst place you ever got stationed?

I'll go first...

• Best: Tough call between Korea and Alaska.
• Worst: Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Best: Seattle , Puget Sound , lakes and no real winter compared to Northeast
Worst: El Paso , FT. Bliss ,lousy dusty desert , no water except swimming pools .

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[Doc]

Stateside,
Worst : FT. Polk Louisiana ...

 

[ch47dmechanic]

Stateside,
Worst : FT. Polk Louisiana ...

Oh man, I never had the "pleasure" of spending more than a JROTC rotation there. I can't imagine being stuck there for an extended period of time.

 

[FoD]

Best was home after active duty discharge
It was work: San Diego...
Worst: Toss up between Long Beach yard or Great Lakes A School

 

[rang19ca]

Thanks to all of you Veterans and military brats. I was US Army, 63C20 Track Vehicle Mechanic, and secondary Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic. Served in Germany '72 - "74.
Got Ft Sill for Track School, Ha Ha. Remember the IMPACT zone ?

 

[mustang marty]

Stateside,
Worst : FT. Polk Louisiana ...

Doc , all my buddies that bitched about the place called it Ft. Puke .

 

[JimH]

U.S. Air Force - 1965-1975 Active Duty C-130 Loadmaster (saw 80 different countries), 1975-1989 AFRES - F-4 Crew Chief and then A/R Shop Supervisor - Retired with 24yrs.

Best Assignment: England (1972) Met my wife there (just celebrated 47th anniversary).

Worst Assignment: Taiwan (1968) - 265 days TDY to RVN.

 

[ch47dmechanic]

Got Ft Sill for Track School, Ha Ha. Remember the IMPACT zone ?

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[wordsmyth]

USMC for 4 years - 1972-76.

Boot camp at Parris Island, radio school at San Diego, Naval Gunfire School at Subic Bay, Philippines.

Overseas assignments to Headquarters Company, 3rd MarDiv on Okinawa, Delta Battery 2/12, then to BN 1/9.

Rotated back to CONUS in December of ‘73 and assigned to MABS 31 at MCAS Beaufort.

Other than standing the IG Inspection drunk while stationed at Camp Courtney (Nov 11, 1972), I stayed below the ridge line and did nothing remarkable...

 

[NickTheEnforcer]

A quote from an original "American" warrior,
a child of a memorial..

Mad respect for all my past and present brothers and sisters who have stood the line with me, regardless of rank, branch or posting. You are the BEST.

 

[jeffe]

My father was in the Army Air Corp and then the Air Force, I spent most of my younger years growing up on Air Force bases so... I joined the Navy. I was a Radarman aboard an ocean-going wooden minesweeper. I spent most of 1965 in the Market Time Operation off of Vietnam.

My dad was Army Air Corps too, stayed Army. I went Navy, '78-'98 to include 3 years on USS Fearless, MSO-442. Wooden ships, Iron Men!

 

[jeffe]

Retired Navy Chief, '78-'98. Submarine, Minesweeper, & Hydrofoils. (2 tours in Key West didn't suck!) ITB Company Commander at Great Lakes (4 years, 4 months, a lot of ET's went through my doors), 2 awesome years on Guam (NCTAMS), and the last 2.5 at the NAVMAC, Millington.

 

[txquailguy]

Sgt U.S. Air Force '84-88' C130 Avionics Maintenance Specialist
Little Rock AFB, AR
TDY to 10 countries, mostly European Theater
Played a lot in the Sand Box....lol

 

[Radioman]

My dad was Army Air Corps too, stayed Army. I went Navy, '78-'98 to include 3 years on USS Fearless, MSO-442. Wooden ships, Iron Men!

USS Prime MSO-466 MSO = Mighty Slow Outfit

 

[jeffe]

USS Prime MSO466 MSO = Mighty Slow Outfit

I know! Balls to the walls, 17 knots! Hydrofoils however.. north of 70! Quite the contrast!

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