Posted on Apr 2, 2014
Where and when did you attend Basic/boot camp, and have you ever been back there?
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Would be an interesting thing to see not only the locations, but a generational perspective on how changes to those locations may be for each and if it even exists anymore. Also have you ever returned to the location either as a duty station or just to see what is was like for memories and changes that may have taken place. I will lead off, Ft McClellan, AL: D10-1983. I did OSUT there so I started in '83 and finished AIT in '84 I went back in 1992 for another school, but haven't been back since it shuttered it's doors to AIT in '99, have been to Leonardwood for few other schools and checked out their facilities, big difference to what we had at McClellan back in the day though. Would love to go back to McClellan today and see what the base looks like and what bldgs. still exist or training areas are there.
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Lackland AFB, 1968... Back in Dec. 1969 for AZR training prior to being deployed to Nam...back in 1975 for ABGD ...back in 1981 for AF Recruiter training...back in 1983 for Command NCO Academy...place always looked the same...
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Ft. Benning, GA. End of 1987 into 1988. Had to take the Christmas Exodus. Sand Hill to be exact. have not been back but would love to walk the Hill, especially with my kids.
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Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. Been back twice after cross training to a new career field. Went past my old training area and it brought back a lot of memories. Some good, some not so. But I would do it all over again if I had to! GO AIR FORCE!!
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I was at Ft. McClellan, AL 10/95-3/96 (A-787) OSUT. I never made it back before it closed. It was a beautiful base on the surface.
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I went through US Air Force Basic training from May 1993- June 1993, however I stayed at Lackland to attend The Security Police Academy and finished at Lackland in July, 1993. Next I went through Air Base Defense school at Ft. Dix and finally finishing in September 1993. I then headed to my home base at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota where I served their my entire enlistment and separating after four years honorably in May 1997. I did revisit Lackland in 1999 to watch my wife go through Basic but realized we wanted to go our separate ways. Still till this day I wish I had stayed, I would have been eligible for retirement in 2013. I had some of the best times of my life while serving in the Air Force and I did get to see the world TDY and I loved my job.. Coulda, shoulda and woulda is what I say now....
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I attended Navy Boot Camp in San Diego, CA in 89. I took my wife and daughter to San Diego for spring break in 07. Where I got screamed at a lot and it wasn't there anymore. Lol! A stripe mall surrounded the USS Recruit. I have shocked.
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Fort Lost In the Woods, Missouri for both Basic and AIT. No, I would not go back there.
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1980 Orlando Naval Base. I went back for Nuke School but not since. I hear it's closed now. The Boot Camp part, that is.
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I received Basic and AIT at Fort Benning, GA in 1978 and in 1990-1992 I was a Drill Sgt. at Fort Benning, GA right down the street from where I took Basic and AIT. It really hadn't changed much other than getting bigger. In 2015 I went back to Fort Benning, GA to see my grandson graduate Basic. It had really changed a lot not just in the way it was laid out but also the standards of training. I guess it is all part of the New and Kinder Military!
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