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flieger83 said:
"Short R&R from Iraq?"

Hmm....ya'll either lived up to the US Army credo of "let's treat our folks worse than the Navy enlisted" or you had a seriously wicked sense of humor.

"R&R" at "The Deid..." well...it's true that there were no mortars or rockets at "The Deid" like Iraq at times...

But... :eek:

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
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Yes, it's true. During our 15-month tour as a morale boost we could send one soldier per month on "Eagle Rest" to Al Udeid. You spent 4 days, including transit time. You could go to a shopping mall and see a real movie. I never went myself, as we saved it for the soldiers. People seemed to enjoy it, though. Lots of A/C and they got to wear civvies for two days.

FWIW, I was at Fort Drum for 3 years. Great post. Hidden gem.
 
scoutpilot said:
Yes, it's true. During our 15-month tour as a morale boost we could send one soldier per month on "Eagle Rest" to Al Udeid. You spent 4 days, including transit time. You could go to a shopping mall and see a real movie. I never went myself, as we saved it for the soldiers. People seemed to enjoy it, though. Lots of A/C and they got to wear civvies for two days.

FWIW, I was at Fort Drum for 3 years. Great post. Hidden gem.
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Drum? Nah too cold, but I liked the actual base. I would prefer Lewis, Carson, Germany or Hawaii (maybe even Alaska if the weather stays like the mild I saw when I was there in the winter) Too bad most army bases are in the South...humidity. :frown: Stationed at Polk? That would be the worst...haha
 
I think Ft Drum has a bad rap I think becasue of it's history in the 60's and 70's as the training site for the National Guard in the northeast before the 10th Mtn Div got reactivated in the 80's. At that time from my understanding it was nothing but a collection of run down old WW2 wooden barracks and ranges, and if you ever got stuck on the interstate behind one of those convoys of 5 tons and jeeps enroute to annual training- you can imagine just why those guys hated being just a stones throw from no-where in Watertown NY. But these days Ft Drum is a rebuilt place and it is in the middle of some really pretty urroundings- the Thousand Islands area of upstate NY and Ontario i is really a great summer vacation area.
Ft Polk on the other hand- ain't nobody singing its praises!!:rolleyes:
 
DD first choice was Kaneohe Bay. Didn't get it but recieved PI. Not even on the choice list. Now there and "Paradise Island" seems a good discriptioon for permanent party. We shall see.
 
tpg said:
29 Stumps! Worst Marine base I was ever at. I came home in 91' from the desert just so that I could get stationed there! My wife hated the place.

One of the Best - Parris Island
I loved every minute I was there. K-bay is not bad either.
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I agree 29palms is the worst! lived there in 85ish - BAD - even navy considered it isolated duty - dependents got military dental!. - larrys mom
 
29 Stumps...boy I'd forgotten that one.

Sorta like going to Shemya only in the CONUS.

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
 
Aglahad said:
Drum? Nah too cold, but I liked the actual base. I would prefer Lewis, Carson, Germany or Hawaii (maybe even Alaska if the weather stays like the mild I saw when I was there in the winter) Too bad most army bases are in the South...humidity. :frown: Stationed at Polk? That would be the worst...haha
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You're not exactly alone. You just named every good operational post the Army has.
 
Well, the island of Shemya is still there...and the facilities are there; not sure how busy they are.

"Once upon a time" the AF renamed it Eareckson Air Station. And "once upon a time" when I didn't accept the "pilot bonus" (sign up to your 14th year, accept @ $15k a year bonus) I was grounded by the Chief of Staff of the USAF, a 4-button named Merrill H. "he who shall remain nameless" and given orders to be the Operations Officer of the Strategic Recon squadron there. (I have another MH story but that's for another time...picture a captain taking a 90 minute dressing-down from a 4 star in the cockpit)

I came within one day of resigning my commission before his order was rescinded. :eek:

I've been there a few times...VERY interesting place...but for an assignment??
(It was interesting when the Soviet bomber appeared out of nowhere and did the touch-and-go without warning!)

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83


NO!!!
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Air_Base

There was a guy in my missile squadron who had done Missile Warning ops at Thule for a one-year remote after he finished USMT (undergraduate space and missile training). The promise was that you could have a choice of base after that tour. What they didn't tell him, was that you had a choice of what Missile Base you wanted to go to (space ops and missile ops being the same AFSC, there was a need for a lot of "cross-flow" of space guys into missile assignments). Nowadays, with the formation of AFGSC, this isn't as big of a factor (or so I hear).

So, long story short, the guy went to Thule for a year and then had a three-year assignment at Minot.

Garden spots....
 
Shemya is still around it is a divert base for Elmendorf. Some of the 90th had to divert there on their way back from a deployment during the winter when we were there many yr ago.

It is just a maintainer status base.

Flieger, He who shall not be named probably will go down in AF history as the most detested CSAF not only for his personality, but because of how he changed the flight suit and blues. :thumbdown:

That of course is on top of the changing how Maintenance and Ops worked.

Fogelman who replaced him will go down as the beloved by members because he un-did everything Merrill did which was hated by the members.

Sprog,

Have to ask did this guy leave after Minot? When I hear Minot, my mind immediately goes to the joke...why not Minot? Freezin is the reason. Looking at Thule, I guess Minot is a garden spot.
 
Pima said:
Shemya is still around it is a divert base for Elmendorf. Some of the 90th had to divert there on their way back from a deployment during the winter when we were there many yr ago.

It is just a maintainer status base.

Flieger, He who shall not be named probably will go down in AF history as the most detested CSAF not only for his personality, but because of how he changed the flight suit and blues. :thumbdown:

That of course is on top of the changing how Maintenance and Ops worked.

Fogelman who replaced him will go down as the beloved by members because he un-did everything Merrill did which was hated by the members.

Sprog,

Have to ask did this guy leave after Minot? When I hear Minot, my mind immediately goes to the joke...why not Minot? Freezin is the reason. Looking at Thule, I guess Minot is a garden spot.
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I think he's still in, actually. He had nowhere to go but up. :biggrin:
 
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