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01-10-12, 04:01 PM #1
What's your favorite base/deployment that you have been stationed at?
I am writing this post to ask all of you Marines, What is your favorite base you have been stationed at or your favorite place you have been deployed? Why did you like it? What is the Pros/Cons of that base? Where there any bases that you hated?
Thanks for your response,
Poolee Lewis
P.S.- I know boot camp should be all of the poolees main focus. I just ask this question for fun and to see all of your opinions.
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01-10-12, 04:25 PM #2
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01-10-12, 04:42 PM #3
Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii. Beautiful scenery, great facilities, friendly people. Just a nice base in general.
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01-10-12, 04:48 PM #4
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01-10-12, 04:49 PM #5
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01-10-12, 04:51 PM #6
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01-10-12, 05:07 PM #7
I would like to know about any base that Marines are stationed at. Stateside, Overseas, Deployments, ETC.
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01-10-12, 05:31 PM #8
MCB 29 Palms 1966-68
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01-10-12, 05:35 PM #9
Okinawa as a billeting NCO for officers,Semper Fidelis.
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01-10-12, 05:56 PM #10
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01-10-12, 05:58 PM #11
Well put it this way, when I was there in 2009 a one bedroom-one bathroom apartment near the base started at $1325 a month. A studio apartment wasn't much cheaper. Milk is $5 a gallon, and gas is $4 a gallon and up. Everything is more expensive on the islands because it has to be shipped in from the Mainland. If you spend your money wisely and save wisely, you can make it in Hawaii. I had a great time there, but yeah the cost of living can be a killer sometimes. Then again, living here in Key West isn't much cheaper sometimes.
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01-10-12, 06:00 PM #12
Okinawa pre-May 15, 1972 (when we gave the island back to Japan) was my favorite, although I still liked it when I returned in 1974.
Other than Vietnam, I was not very excited about Camp Lejuene. Didn't have a car and there was nothing much to do close to the base. The good part was I only spent 11-months there.
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01-10-12, 06:02 PM #13
Marine Barracks 8th & I
Plenty of EXCELLENT chow
Needed to be on deck for any assigned detail squated away outside that LIBERTY CALL
I didn't find any mud there !
Fired a weapon in the air( off duty )behind a sentry -wasn't nice !
I think he s--- himself
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01-10-12, 06:04 PM #14
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01-10-12, 06:05 PM #15
MCAS Miramar, California.... loved my time there.
Great location, great scenery, and its close to all the attractions in Southern California.
I also liked MCAS Yuma in Arizona too.
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