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by Warren Bruhn Worst food I ever ate in six years of service was at Camp Foster on Okinawa (US Marines), but the second worst was Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois (just north...
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by zuludawn CFS Alert.
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by Wolfram Eggesin"Land der drei Meere: Waldmeer, Sandmeer, nichts mehr."Big NVA base at the polish border.Land of three seas: wood sea, sand sea, nothing more.Looses a bit by translation.
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by Wolfram WünsdorfHQ of the WGT Red Army
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by rgordon44 Thanks for all the great responses do far!For the one liners please share any experiences or personal opinions.We want to learn what is was like to be there, good or bad.(anyone can run...
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by evanbrooks Vint Hall Farms (VA): A ASA intelligence and electronic warfare support facility (1942-1997). Very difficult to gain access, now it has become suburbified and has gone to the dogs (i.e.,...
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by ozimek pete belli wrote:Thule.I did a bit of research on the base for my Seed Wars: Assault on Svalbard prototype.Fascinating.The air base in Thule has been given a lot of treatment in the Danish...
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by cooler king Not a base, but a classic symbol of the Cold War.Checkpoint Charlie
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by Eldard This one isn't exactly famous . . . Ferris Barracks, Erlangen, West Germany. My home from January 1974 to August 1976.http://www.armykaserne.com/ferrisbarracks/In the '70s, it was home of...
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by Eldard cooler king wrote:Not a base, but a classic symbol of the Cold War.Checkpoint CharlieGreat call. I visited Checkpoint Charlie in 1975; seeing it and the Wall left a lasting impression on me.
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by DarrellKH Warren Bruhn wrote:Worst food I ever ate in six years of service was at Camp Foster on Okinawa (US Marines), but the second worst was Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes,...
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by Rockhopper01 Some of my favorites/hates...Ramstein AB, Germany: I liked it only because they had a Taco Bell. We lived in Germany three years, and sometimes you just gotta get a burrito supreme.NAS...
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by fluffyevil Not a ground base but I spent four years at 4-Wing near Baden Baden, Germany from the age of six months. Directly behind our house was a hill of sand that covered an old bunker of the...
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by ToddK cooler king wrote:Not a base, but a classic symbol of the Cold War.Checkpoint CharlieSpent three years in Berlin in the early seventies, Checkpoint Charlie has two everlasting imprints, the...
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by joedogboy Rockhopper01 wrote:I also got thrown on my face by SP's because we didn't use the Entry Control Point (ECP) when we walked between chow hall and our planes. Honestly, there was no fence,...
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by jeb123 Least favorite ... Fort Benning Georgia ... I did infantry school ... in the summer ... Rained the entire week we trained and qualified on our M-16 so I am intimately familiar with Georgia...
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by DarrellKH Rockhopper01 wrote:Kadena AB: Never let us in the club because we were Marines, even though I was in the Air Wing. Apparently they confused us with the unwashed grunts that were on the...
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by ElCid91 ozimek wrote:pete belli wrote:Thule.I did a bit of research on the base for my Seed Wars: Assault on Svalbard prototype.Fascinating.The air base in Thule has been given a lot of treatment...
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by ozimek ElCid91 wrote:...I would not be surprised if the Danish politicians just never "Officially" asked. They probably knew, the same way everyone else knew, but were never told officially.One of...
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by wlewisiii Not famous in any way shape or form, but I would love a chance to see the cold war base I was stationed at again. Little town called Illesheim, FRG. Nice place to be a young soldier a...
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by Eldard wlewisiii wrote:Not famous in any way shape or form, but I would love a chance to see the cold war base I was stationed at again. Little town called Illesheim, FRG. Nice place to be a young...
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by Moron Tom DarrellKH wrote:Warren Bruhn wrote:Worst food I ever ate in six years of service was at Camp Foster on Okinawa (US Marines), but the second worst was Great Lakes Naval Training Station,...
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by travillaintim RAF Gatow (Berlin)RAF Wildenrathneither are really famous unless you consider the history of Gatow.Without a doubt Berlin was the coolest and scariest place to be in at the same time....
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by samtn99 Berlin gets my vote. I remember walking through one of the buildings and seeing a picture of Hitler inspecting the troops in front of a barracks. Looking closer realized it was my barracks....
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by wlewisiii Eldard wrote:wlewisiii wrote:Not famous in any way shape or form, but I would love a chance to see the cold war base I was stationed at again. Little town called Illesheim, FRG. Nice...
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by SimGuy Walker Air Force Base, Roswell New Mexico.A SAC base that hosted B-52 bombers, Atlas ICBMs, and one flying saucer.The Cold War at its finest.
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by 11B4V rgordon44 wrote:Famous military bases.We know the famous airbases: examples Ramstein, Edwards, Osan, Mildenhall.We know the famous naval bases: examples Norfolk, Portsmouth, Subic Bay,...
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by rgordon44 Thank you for all the great responses so far, I feel we have just touch the tip of some great content here.Please share any personal experiences or opinions.We want to learn what is was...
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by horrido 11B4V wrote:Wildflecken, Grafenwoehr, Hohenfels, and Weingarten... Baumholder & Fulda
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by wlewisiii 11B4V wrote:Wildflecken, Grafenwoehr, Hohenfels, and WeingartenGee, thanks, I'd managed to forget about Wildchicken... :devil:
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by 11B4V wlewisiii wrote:11B4V wrote:Wildflecken, Grafenwoehr, Hohenfels, and WeingartenGee, thanks, I'd managed to forget about Wildchicken... :devil:I loved that place when I was stationed there.
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by Eldard 11B4V wrote:rgordon44 wrote:Famous military bases.We know the famous airbases: examples Ramstein, Edwards, Osan, Mildenhall.We know the famous naval bases: examples Norfolk, Portsmouth,...
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by Eldard wlewisiii wrote:Eldard wrote:wlewisiii wrote:Not famous in any way shape or form, but I would love a chance to see the cold war base I was stationed at again. Little town called Illesheim,...
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by Kluvon Eldard wrote:This one isn't exactly famous . . . Ferris Barracks, Erlangen, West Germany. My home from January 1974 to August 1976.http://www.armykaserne.com/ferrisbarracks/In the '70s, it...
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by Eldard That's cool, K G.! I forgot to mention the chapel that was on post in the list of facilities. Do you know what unit he commanded at Erlangen?
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by Kluvon Eldard wrote:That's cool, K G.! I forgot to mention the chapel that was on post in the list of facilities. Do you know what unit he commanded at Erlangen?I'm fairly certain he was with the...
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by Eldard Kluvon wrote:Eldard wrote:That's cool, K G.! I forgot to mention the chapel that was on post in the list of facilities. Do you know what unit he commanded at Erlangen?I'm fairly certain he...
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by Kluvon Bill, thank you very much for your interesting comments. May I impose upon you a bit more?Here is a link to a photograph of my father's company, one I found this morning:...
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by Eldard Kluvon wrote:Bill, thank you very much for your interesting comments. May I impose upon you a bit more?Here is a link to a photograph of my father's company, one I found this morning:...
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by rgordon44 Wonderful photos KG!!!Yes, it is interesting in that photo out of twenty eight soldiers there are four senior NCOs, four junior NCOs, one Captain and nineteen privates (no lieutenants).
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by Kluvon The photo hints at how well integrated the U. S. Army was by 1960. My family's best friends in Germany were an African-America couple and I never sensed racism in my early years at Benning,...
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by Eldard rgordon44 wrote:Wonderful photos KG!!!Yes, it is interesting in that photo out of twenty eight soldiers there are four senior NCOs, four junior NCOs, one Captain and nineteen privates (no...
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by Eldard Kluvon wrote:The photo hints at how well integrated the U. S. Army was by 1960.Yes. And in 1974, about half of the NCOs and 4 of the officers (including a major) in my battalion were African...
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by Michael Dorosh My home away from home for the last 25 years:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mewata_ArmouriesDuring Gulf War I, not a single Iraqi tank made it past 11th Avenue, though of course, I...
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by Blackhorse Downs Barracks, Fulda Germany.http://www.14cav.org/a4.htmlA fantastic installation housing fantastic units (14th ACR and 11th ACR).I have nothing but fond and positive memories about the...
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by rgordon44 Thanks all around, some of the best stuff ever posted on BGG!!Real life experiences!Real soldiers sharing their most cherished memories!Q (not little cardboard cowboys pretending to be...
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by Rockhopper01 rgordon44 wrote:Real soldiers sharing their most cherished memories!And Marines. :)
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by rgordon44 Rockhopper01 wrote:rgordon44 wrote:Real soldiers sharing their most cherished memories!And Marines. :):laugh:
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