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As a 92F this will be my 2nd duty station and I'm just looking for a few pointers about this area? Housing, shopping, etc?
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Fort Irwin
PCS Fort Irwin
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Well I haven't been stationed there but have done 8 rotations out there (6 OPFOR, 1 BLUFOR, and 1OC). I actually liked it there and wished I could have gotten stationed there.
But then again I am a glutten for punishment at times....
But then again I am a glutten for punishment at times....
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Housing isn't to bad they were always tearing down an rebuilding when I was stationed there twice 05-07 then 09-11
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Best duty station in my career which included, Europe, Korea, Hawaii and a host of stateside assignments and a couple of deployments. It’s isolated but to me that lent to the charm. No automotive congestion, at night you could see the stars. I was sent the first time and, I pleaded for a second assignment. First with the OPFOR (6/31st Inf) second with the MEDEVAC unit. Lot of field duty but lots of time off too. It was great !
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Was my first duty station and one of my favorites. Plenty of things to do on base when rotations aren't going. Downside is the travel to anywhere outside of Irwin.
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Fort Irwin is the home of the 11th Cavalry and the National Training Center (NTC). From my (prior service army) experience with Fort Irwin ( NTC rotation with 2nd ACR )... it sucked. It is a hot and dry desert...just like Iraq. When I redeployed back to Fort Polk it took several showers just to get all the sand out of my 2000 parts. I was never so glad to be back at Fort Polk as I was after that rotation.
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LTC Jason Mackay
I knew a guy that almost had the OPFOR Trifecta. He did OPFOR at NTC and JRTC. Think he was an OC at JMRC in Germany
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If you want to shop somewhere not on base, you have Barstow, CA as the nearest town (30 miles I believe). You also have Victorville, CA which is about an 1-1 1/2 hour drive away. Otherwise the base itself is pretty good, IMHO. I enjoyed my time there. The housing was pretty good too. You wont have much grass to mow. And if you are not much of a water drinker, start getting yourself into being a water drinker.
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Had to do a recovery mission for a D7 bulldozer weighing in at 32,000 pounds, that slid off the side of an M870 trailer on a side of a mountain. One of the dozer rippers punched through the trailer's decking and that was about the only thing preventing it from rolling over - fun times.
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A terrible place to use a lensatic compass for navigation. Rolling small undulations of the ground for klics and klics.
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Do you have a nice car? I ask because I had a mustang that I was still finding sand in years later. It get in EVERYTHING!
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SPC Angel Guma
Brush up by watching the 2006 batman movie a few times, maybe the one with the Joker might help.
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