Posted on Jun 26, 2014
Most Annoying Base in the military and why was it so?
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I am currently at Fort Stewart, GA, for some training. Shout out to those Dog Faced Soldiers! But I have been to many bases and I have never heard so many bugle calls in my life, this also includes the playing of the 3rd ID song every morning. I swear I have seen people just sprint off when they hear a call because they don't know what to do. So far I have found that this post does 13 bugle calls. Fort Bragg got nothing on this place.
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during the nam war the worst 2 bases were FT ORD,CA & FT POLK,LOUISINA if you got orders for ft polk or ft ord you knew the next stop was beautifull DOWNTOWN VIETNAM!
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spent some time TDY one summer at Fort Sill. Shit weather, tornado warnings daily, God-awful rain, black skys, artillery firing 24-7..not much to do...MPs used to set up outside the clubs...
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SGT Donnie Goodson
I went to BNCOC just to get out of Ft Sill for a couple of months even though I knew I wasn't going to stay in. I couldn't figure out how it kept winning Post of the Year and yet everyone was miserable there. I guess they don't interview anyone for that title.
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SPC John Leite
I had AIT starting late 75 (17B20) and then was stationed there till mid 77 and I liked it there, didn't care for lawton and avoided it like the plague but liked the outdoor activities available in the area, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, (great hiking there), Lake Elmer Thomas, Had some great beer bashes, bonfire and all, with friends there, Lake Lawtonka, same thing, Medicine Park, Comfortable barracks, (building 914) good food in the mess hall, can't think of a single thing that I didn't like about my time there.
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*retired now* But was stationed at Cannon AFB 97-01. Decent base/some great folks to work with, but out in the middle of nowhere. The base is surrounded by cattleyards, feed lots, and a pig farm. So, it always smelled like shyt...the wind never ceased. You were always "upwind" of the smell. Nowadays, folks stationed there call it "Afcannonstan". To each their own...there are unhappy people at some of the "best" bases out there.
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When I was at Wright-Patterson AFB, I lived in the dorms for the first seven months I was there (I got there June of '09).
At the time, Wright-Patt was split into three separate areas (two areas have now since merged into one). The dorms were on the smallest part (Kittyhawk Area), which also had the BX, Commissary, post office, etc.
Well, unless you were dorm staff or worked at the DFAC, if you lived in the dorms, you had to leave Kittyhawk to get to your place of duty on the other two areas. Problem was, they looooved to hold exercises once a month, which usually meant base lockdown. This meant you were not allowed to leave one area of base to go to another. Thing was, they purposely never told you if this exercise would involve a lockdown, and only ever announced it when it was actually happening, so there was no giving commanders or supervisors a heads-up.
Sure enough, at least three or four times in that seven month span, I was having to call my supervisor at the office telling him I couldn't come in because the base was on lockdown and I couldn't leave the Kittyhawk Area. I got in good with one of the SF guys at the gate the last few months and he was usually able to give me a quick heads up before they were about to make the call so I could get to where I needed to be, but it was the most annoying thing I've had to deal with base-wise.
At the time, Wright-Patt was split into three separate areas (two areas have now since merged into one). The dorms were on the smallest part (Kittyhawk Area), which also had the BX, Commissary, post office, etc.
Well, unless you were dorm staff or worked at the DFAC, if you lived in the dorms, you had to leave Kittyhawk to get to your place of duty on the other two areas. Problem was, they looooved to hold exercises once a month, which usually meant base lockdown. This meant you were not allowed to leave one area of base to go to another. Thing was, they purposely never told you if this exercise would involve a lockdown, and only ever announced it when it was actually happening, so there was no giving commanders or supervisors a heads-up.
Sure enough, at least three or four times in that seven month span, I was having to call my supervisor at the office telling him I couldn't come in because the base was on lockdown and I couldn't leave the Kittyhawk Area. I got in good with one of the SF guys at the gate the last few months and he was usually able to give me a quick heads up before they were about to make the call so I could get to where I needed to be, but it was the most annoying thing I've had to deal with base-wise.
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A1C Elizabeth Adams
I went to tech school there and they would without warning shut down the main gate so we couldn't get back on base or or would shut down access to everyone but military so we would have to get someone that actually had a car to drive us to the gate to get whatever food we ordered.
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Worst base: NS Norfolk. Navy guys will know why. I'm putting NAS North Island/San Diego behind. Why? Traffic.
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PO2 Orlando Sims, MPA
The traffic going to NAVSTA Norfolk was crazy! I was there back in 2006-2007. I was so glad to leave that base.
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I don't buy it any soldier who has spent time in the Cav on Infantry knows what is going on.
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LT, this is a perfect opportunity to get in touch with the roots of the Army. Long before every soldier possessed his own watch, the bugle was the only effective means of keeping timely order in the fort or field. The fact that Fort Stewart uses bugle calls is a traditional throwback displaying respect to all soldiers over the last 241 years. Far from annoying, you should use the opportunity to educate those personnel "sprinting" of to the meanings of those calls as the Stewart home page instructed you.
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Ok. I am getting tired of getting this response. I honestly don't like night jumps or combat equipment jumps but I am in an airborne unit. Am I disrespecting all those that did a combat jump or a night jump in WWII. I don't think so. If you think that then you are entitled to your opinion. I am just not a fan of hearing the Division Song every morning.
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SGT Don Sanker
I sang that song every morning for two years, I didn't like it either, but I understood the historic nature of the song. I didn't like saying I was a dog face soldier but I played along because I was an NCO in the Army. A leader, not a commissioned officer of course, but a leader nonetheless. Leaders lead from the front and set the example.
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SGT Don Sanker - Why didn't you like the song. Those words are the history of the unit. So you must not like the history. You said you didn't like saying you were a dog faced soldier. So you are disrespecting all of those that proudly called themselves that.
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The offical web site of the U.S. Army Music Program. Dating back over 230 years to the Revolutionary War, band members have always been an important part of the U.S. Army.
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SSG Erik McKinster
Nice. Turds running from the music always pissed me off. My troops would be pissed, but I'd grab the ones I saw some days before colors & take them outside. Haha
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