Anyone wanna start?
Where is the best place you were stationed and why.How about the worst?

Sure I will be the one to start this, after 21 years I would have to say the 2 best duty stations were , Ft. Knox, Ky (100 miles from home) 7.5 years there. 2. Ansbach, Germany (retirement) I guess the worse would be Grafenwhore, (every darn winter) Ok guys give it up your turn.

Best Sasebo Japan MinDiv 111. Worst USS Prime (MSO 466)

BEST Subic City.....cheap booze, cheap women

Worst Subic City.....being expected to actually work before partaking of all that cheap booze, cheap women

Sasebo is a nice place, with an open-air mall and immaculate streets... But Subic Bay, with it's "Shit River" and dirty streets (Magsaysay Blvd, etc.) was the best liberty port/base in the entire world. The actual base had everything, including the Spanish Gate eating area, great chow halls, a colonial-era movie theater, an island (Grande Island) for recreation, bowling alleys, skeet shooting, go-carts, miniature golf, more. But that wasn't the best part. The best part was out in town in Olongapo. There was no place like it, and probably never will be again for the US Military. I know people who reenlisted just so they could go back to PI, but then the base closed and they were out of luck. Servicemen who visited Subic would stay awake 24/7 for weeks at a time so as not to miss anything.

Olongapo.Even I have heard stories of that place.Anything and everything a man could want available for a price?
Is it true that kids would ask you to throw coins into the "sh1t river"so they could dive in and fish them out?
Man,the fear of AIDS has sure changed things.Now
I wrap my willie in plastic wrap and aluminum
foil for protection.And I'm married!!!

Yes, the Shit River separates the base and the city, and there's a bridge that connects the two. You could throw a Peso in the river from the bridge and the kids would dive for it. A Peso was about 5 cents. Of course, the real entertainment was out in town. T's Tavern is infamous, but there were literally hundreds of other clubs. If you wanted Country, you could go to a Country bar and there would be Filipinos dressed in Western Wear singing perfect country music. At the Sierra Club, those guys could rock. They could do a PERFECT impression of Ozzy or whoever. And of course, there were five to ten women to every guy in every club, and all the women "loved you no shit."

Don't remember the open air Mall in Sasebo in 1958 the only diffrence between Sasebo and Olongpo PI served Chicken on a stick(Cat)funny thing never saw a Cat in PI.and Sasebo had Saki& Ocadoma wine that crap would make you blind.Oh I forgot you could watch the Lone Ranger in Japenese go figure( Haiako Silver San away)

Photos from Subic: The Sierra Club and Jeepneys in Olongapo!

More photos from Subic: Area photo and Spanish Gate

I do remember one thing about Subic back in the old days I went on Liberty with a brand new Boliva Wrist watch got drunk woke up got dressed and went down to help Lite off getting ready to get underway looked at my watch it wasn't a Boliva and it wasn't running.

Thule AB, Greenland. No fotos necessary. If it is snowing outside your house, and it looks all white, it is just like Thule.

Fort Eustis was too small and too close to the mass of military that Virginia has. There was an E7 who's only job was to write people up for uniform violations in the PX -- we had him set away after the button episode with one of our people.

Fort Knox was large and easy to get lost in the crowd but there was so much training going on that it was hard to relax because there were "shaved heads" everywhere.

Camp Holloway was not bad, we had strip shows (the EM club was next to the church) and could drink until we died (a few people did). Regulations were enforced but not too Mickey Mouse (I did get chewed out by the Battalion commander for being unshaven while coming off guard duty but the SMG kept him real and he moved on).

Best-Kirchgoens, Ge (1BDE 3AD)- Jump on a train and see about anything you could want to within a couple hours. Far enough away from the denser populated areas to escape the amerikaner haters.

Worst-Ft Stewert, GA- Hinesville, swamp gas, etc.

Every story I heard before I went to Subic was true, every story I ever told about Subic was also true. No-one could make up stuff like that and still be considered sane.