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Originally posted by BMR:
Bergstrom Air Force Base, outside of Austin, TX.

+1

When I was a kid I wanted to fly F-4s, and I wanted to be stationed at Bergstrom.

Two things prevented that from happening:
1- Bergstrom got rid of RF-4s, and went to F-16s as a Reserve base.
2- I washed out of pilot training.

I liked Subic Bay.
I really liked Mare Island.
But, my Favorite was Naval Reactor School outside of Idaho Falls. I spent three years there and loved the area.

Mike

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Originally posted by dwood4:
Reese AFB, Lubbock, Texas. They had fighter training here. In WW2 glider training. Miss the people it brought in.

Sorry, but Reese AFB did not have "fighter training" at any time in it's history.

It was always just a regular old undergraduate pilot training (UPT) base. They never had Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF), it's predecessor Lead In Fighter Training (LIFT), or any Formal Training Unit (FTU) for any "fighter" aircraft.

Reese did have T-33s, a two seat variant of the F-80 used for pilot training, prior to the T-38s. The T-38s were similar to the F-5, but neither the T-33 or T-38s were actual fighter aircraft, and the training done at Reese in both the T-33s and T-38s was "undergraduate pilot training" (UPT), prior to students attending IFF (or LIFT), and then an FTU for their actual "fighter."

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Originally posted by Sig209:
Barbers Point NAS on Oahu was fun.

Not sure what is there now...

Always wanted to go to Ft. Ord - never been there.

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I agree, Barbers Point was a lot of fun, I was there from Dec 65 to Nov 67 in VR-21. Hated to hear it closed.

Ellington AFB, Houston, TX

I miss seeing the F102 Delta Daggers, F101 Voodoo's, F4 Phantoms and F16 Falcons flying out of the base as a kid. NASA still flies T-38 Talon training aircraft out of the airfield, but it's just not the same...

Fort Sherman Panama J.O.T.C.

Adak, AK.

Was never there when it was alive, but we've pulled in there twice now for logistics and it's pretty much the coolest place I've ever visited. Apparently the people just up and vanished back in '97. You walk through the old housing and there's still people's personal effects in desk drawers, assignments on the high school desks, medical records in file cabinets in the old medical building...straight up ghost town.

We were just there a couple weeks ago and the natives have been handed over just about everything so there's not as much to explore anymore but it's still neat to imagine the hustle bustle that used to go on. The population's only a couple hundred now, down from 6,000.

NAS Alameda was always cool to drive through. They left the CG housing down on that end of the island cause it was a shithole, it got so bad they've even closed most of THAT down. My brother was on Carl Vinson back when she was there, we like trading stories about our mishaps on Park Pl.

When I was a kid in the 70s, Myrtle Beach was nothing but campgrounds on the beach. We had an old Avenger trailer and an Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser with a 455ci monster under the hood. 14 hours we'd drive to pitch camp in the front row (we made reservations each year for the next).

The whole way there, all I dreamed of was those A-10s that would practically scrape our trailer heading out to see from Myrtle Beach AFB. Seemed that way to me as a kid anyway. I have always loved that plane since then. Loved the AFB, and the low key aire of MB in general at that time. The base is gone, the beach has totally changed and built-up/commercialized. A bit of good news yesterday though, the old wart lives on!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/...nt-air-force-budget/

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Ft. Ord,CA It was right on the Monterey Bay, so much to do and see. The women, I had way to much fun there

+1

It seems so long ago now (because it was. ) General Hal Moore was post commander then.

My dad was stationed at Ft. Ord for a while. I wonder if General Moore was there when he was there. I'll have to ask him.

Moore AFB, Mission, TX. I was raised on it.

RMD

Charleston Naval Shipyard. Charleston SC.
Was on two different DLGs in the early 70s that were home ported there. USS Macdonough DLG-8
and USS William H Standley DLG-32
My oldest daughter was born at Charleston Naval Hospital in June of 75 and I got out September 75.

Fort Chaffee in Ft. Smith Arkansas.

Myrtle Beach AFB. Although I was with the 82nd ABN at Ft. Bragg in the mid 1980's, Myrtle Beach was only two hours away. We could eat for free in the chow hall with our meal card and enjoy the beach during the day.

Darby Kaserne, FRG. It's an office park or some such thing now.

Just curious if anyone was ever stationed at Clinton Sherman AFB at Burns Flat OK. It had/has a 13,000+ foot runway. After closure it's been pitched as a space port due to location and runway length but that never happened.

NAS Port Lyautey, Morocco. My sister and I were born there several centuries ago...

Marine Corps Air Station (H), Tustin, CA. Spent a good portion of my career there and worked in both of the blimp hangars (HMM-161 and HMM-163). Now I get to see one of the hangars in car commercials.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. Was the Home of the Signal Corps when I was there, in the early 70's. Was closed in 2011.

I was there in 61 and 65. "The Country Club".

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Originally posted by Hobbs:
Several bases I was stationed at are now closed. Heck, even the one I was born on is closed.

I guess my favorite (by a small margin) was Naval Station Pascagoula Mississippi. Maybe because it was closest to my hometown of any I was stationed at but mostly because underway meant superb weather and port visits across the Caribbean. Roosevelt Roads, GITMO, Aruba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Curacao, U.S. Virgin Islands, maybe some I'm not remembering ... enjoyed those port visits. Would also see North Atlantic countries in Europe as part of NATO ops from Naval Station Pascagoula.

Was stationed on east coast and west coast and back and forth, at stations now closed that I have fond memories of and saw other parts of the world from as well. Was hard to pick a favorite.

I'm actually currently stationed on the island, although I'm at the Coast Guard station

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Originally posted by sjp:

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Originally posted by Hobbs:
Several bases I was stationed at are now closed. Heck, even the one I was born on is closed.

I guess my favorite (by a small margin) was Naval Station Pascagoula Mississippi. Maybe because it was closest to my hometown of any I was stationed at but mostly because underway meant superb weather and port visits across the Caribbean. Roosevelt Roads, GITMO, Aruba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Curacao, U.S. Virgin Islands, maybe some I'm not remembering ... enjoyed those port visits. Would also see North Atlantic countries in Europe as part of NATO ops from Naval Station Pascagoula.

Was stationed on east coast and west coast and back and forth, at stations now closed that I have fond memories of and saw other parts of the world from as well. Was hard to pick a favorite.

I'm actually currently stationed on the island, although I'm at the Coast Guard station

AWESOME. I used to park my truck just at the end of the causeway and ride a bike to the ship. Those few minutes energized me, scenery cleared and put me in a good frame of mind to start the day. Unless there was a downpour, still rode in and back out at the end of the day. Mosquitoes were just well, terrible during our mandatory morning workouts. Hated putting on all the deet when they were worst. OH ... and the Nutrias. Saw a few.

EDIT: I had no idea the Coast Guard was still there.

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