Which US Military Base Do You Live Closest To?

[arwalden]

I'm about 10 minutes away from Andrews AFB, Maryland.

-- Allen

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Westover AFB

40 miles away in Chicopee, MA

[La_Serpiente]

2. About 25 minutes

from Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, HI (that is when I am at college).

[arwalden]

4. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I Can't Hear You LA LA LA LA LA

I'm so jealous.

== Allen

[imax2268]

87. I used to live near Andrews AFB...

in Clinton MD...

Now I live 10 minutes away and work on Luke AFB, AZ...

[maxanne]

3. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

is about an hour and a half away.

[Wickerman]

5. Used to be surrounded by them in San Antonio

now I have some National Guard post near me.

[BlueMole]

Fort Dix/McGuire AFB

Half hour up the road, traffic permitting. :toast:

[Maddy McCall]

6. Camp Shelby - lartest state-owned training site in the nation

Seven miles south of Hattiesburg, MS, where I teach.

According to the Global Security website:

Camp Shelby, Mississippi, the largest state owned training site in the nation, has a long history of serving the country and is considered by many as “a national treasure.” During wartime, the camp's mission is to serve as a major, independent mobilization station of the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). Camp Shelby Training Site is the largest reserve component training site, covering 136,000 acres, allowing up to battalion level maneuver training, Gunnery Table 8-12, excellent FA Firing Points and a wide range of support facilities. This is the normal Annual Training location for National Guard and Reserve units located in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennesse. However, units from accross the country use its excellent assets to support a varity of missions. The 2nd BN, 114th FA conducts its gunnery and has the bulk of its combat equipment stored in the Mobilization and Annual Training Equipment Site (MATES) located there.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-shelby.htm

[trof]

24. My old stomping grounds.

My ANG unit held our two week summer camps there and flew gunnery missions up at the ranges.

We had some...ahem...SWELL times at the bars and fleshpots of Gulfport and Biloxi back in the 60s.

[Maddy McCall]

31. Well you would be pleased to know there is now a nudie bar (nonalcoholic)

across from the Camp Shelby gates now. Yes, you can go look at nekkid wimmin all day long, but you can't have a cold one while doing so. :-)

[trof]

32. Bummer.

Back in the day, there were strip bars all up and down the beach.
The whole state was "dry", so it was all against the law. The cops were well rewarded for looking the other way.
There were even full blown gambling casinos, so the current crop is nothing new. Just legal now.

[carols]

7. CENTCOM - MacDill AFB in Tampa

30 min away - yuck!
Carol

[lpbk2713]

18. Likewise .......... about 30 minutes away from MacDill AFB, Tampa

But in the other direction from Carol. Lakeland, Florida.

[carols]

55. I work in Lakeland

So it's 30 minutes away 24/7 for me!
Carol

[supernova]

8. Take your pick

Fort Bragg - 90 minutes to Fayetteville

Seymour Johnson AFB - about 2 hours south in Goldsboro NC (a little further down 95 than Fayetteville)

Cherry Grove Marine Base - about 3 hours just south of Morehead City NC.

Feels like I'm forgetting one. :think:

edit: I did forget one. Campe LeJeune in Jacksonville NC - about 2.5 hours away.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

20. Add 30 minutes extra to the times supernova posted

and we would have the same answer .

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. About 45 minutes from Great Lakes Naval Station.

The former Fort Sheridan is 35 minutes to the north.

[UCLA02]

23. Spent a winter there whilst in Boot Camp...

The most miserable 2 months of my existence. I was there Feb-April, 1993. California kids don't adjust well to such extreme winters, especially on the lake.

(Certainly not to disparage where YOU live. I never got out and about and can only speak of my experiences while "confined" within the walls of Great Mistakes Naval Training Center.)

[Melsky]

10. Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center

In Twentynine Palms, CA

[corporatewhore]

11. Camp Mabry and then Fort hood the largest one in the us

[djeseru]

33. Out near the Camp myself...

...and, uh, yeah, Fort Hood is right thataway.

I grew up underneath the flight line at Carswell in Fort Worth - big loud b-52's.

[NoPasaran]

12. Randolph AFB

In San Antonio is about an hour away. Lots more in SA too.

Camp Mabry, HQ of the Texas National Guard is about 15 minutes away when traffic cooperates.

Fort Hood, about 90 minutes.

[GOPisEvil]

74. Same here. My parents live 5 minutes from Randolph, though.

I spent lost of time there as a young'un.

[displacedtexan]

13. between fort meade and aberdeen proving ground

I'm in Baltimore.

[Insider]

83. APG and (the area formerly known as) Edgewood Arsenal

[readmylips]

14. Tent City Camp..

Phoenix, Arizona.

[imax2268]

88. Been there...heh heh heh...

n/t

[RebelOne]

15. Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA

In fact, my office is right across the street from it on Cobb Parkway (Hwy. 41).

[Lars39]

16. Fort Campbell, KY.

About an hour away.

[havocmom]

17. Malstrom (n/t)

[UCLA02]

19. Across the street from China Lake Naval Weapons Test Ctr.

in Ridgecrest, CA in the Mojave Desert.

[Cush]

21. hmmm

I'm in Northern VA. There's Andrews, but that's in MD.

In VA:

Fort Belvoir, Quantico.....where is Langley AFB?

On Edit: I Remember going to the museum at Quantico once, but one of the buildings was closed at the time. I'd like to go back at some point

[MrScorpio]

48. Langley is in Hampton

In SE VA

[arwalden]

54. I Used To Live In Hampton (Tidemill Area) And Those Jets At Langley

would LITERALLY rattle nic-nacs off the shelves when they were test-firing their engines.

-- Allen

[trof]

22. Pensacola NAS

About 45 minutes away.
The Naval Aviation Museum is awsome, in spite of the fact that they just enshrined bush 1's WW II aircraft. He was here for the ceremony, but I chose not to attend.
;-)

[11 Bravo]

25. I'm about 20 minutes away from Fort Myer in Arlington, VA.

(But I play golf at Andrews every chance I get. Don't know if you're a golfer, but if you are it's a great track.)

[beanball]

26. Military post

Ft.Huachuca,Az.Home of the Buffalo Soldier.

[Whitacre D_WI]

27. I grew up 20 minutes from Wright-Patterson AFB.

n/t

[Kellanved]

28. not sure

Might be Grafenwoehr, Schweinfurt or Wiesbaden. I don't know if Hanau still exists, it would probably the nearest.

http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/publications/infocus/bases/American_bases_in_Germany_fs.pdf

[kalian]

29. Take your pick...I've got, Peterson AFB, Shriever AFB, NORAD...

Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy...

[NoPasaran]

38. Is Ent AFB still there

in Colorado Springs? My Dad was stationed there in the early 1960s.

[KellyW]

30. Naval Station Everett

But we have bases all over around here.

[Race4Peace]

34. Ft. Stewart(MASSIVE!)and Hunter Army Airfield(Savannah, GA.) I live in ...

Rincon, GA.

[Bluzmann57]

35. Rock Island Arsenal

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, armanent manufacturers in the world. I can see Arsenal Island from my front yard. Its actually a nice scene if one overlooks what they are doing over there. They are also a HUGE employer of civilians in this area. And these are very good, high paying jobs.

[mr blur]

36. I'm British -

- I love ON a UK aircraft carrier.

[terrya]

37. Do you get to see Marine One on its way to land?

Andrews AFB is where the Presidential aircraft fleet are housed, right?

Living here in Chicago, I live closet to Great Lakes Naval Station, in Wisconsin.

[maveric]

39. I'm in San Diego. North Island, 32nd St., Miramar, MCRD,...

I'm not sure if the Helo base in Imperial Beach is still open.

[nykiera]

40. Ft Drum

is @ 30 minutes North

[trogdor]

78. Where are you?

Lowville? Pulaski? Got much snow up there?

I'm in Clinton, near Utica.

[Jeep29]

41. Ft Campbell, KY

About 2 miles away.

[beawr]

42. Fort Detrick, MD

You Know, where the Anthrax came from....
The US Army biological weapons command.

Actually, to be fair, I've worked there and they are pretty much in the business of developing vaccines, distributing medical research grants to Universities and figuring out how to respond to bio attacks. They do a lot of Breast Cancer and HIV research, and the Republican Representatives get to tell the no necks that they upped Defense spending while they are doing medical research that benefits, well, people that the no necks do not appreciate.

[Wcross]

44. You live near my brother!

I was up a year ago, had a great time in Frederick. Went to that horse track in west Virginia and won a hundred bucks!

[beawr]

62. On the Horses or on the Slots?

n/t

[Wcross]

63. Video poker....

I did win 2 bucks on the horses though. I don't understand "slot" type games at all. I live in the bible belt- they don't even allow bingo here!

[jbm]

43. Whiteman AFB...

it's about 30 minutes away.

[mwdem]

80. Whiteman, also....

They do flyovers at the Cheifs games (remember them?). On the way to the field today, someone noticed a flock of geese over the stadium, and said, "Dudes, we're missing the flyover!!!"

[CO Liberal]

45. Fort Carson, CO

I drive past it every day going to and from work. And when they're running maneuvers, my house shakes. I can also see Cheyenne Mountain dduring my commute - home of NORAD. (For those of you who watch "Stargate SG-1" on the Sci-Fi Network, you can see the rounded entrance to the mountain complex from I-25 if you know where to look.)

My office in Colorado Springs is about five miles from Peterson AFB. And from time to time, my job takes me out to Schriever AFB, which is just east of Colorado Springs.

[watercolors]

46. Patrick Air Force Base, Fl

20 minutes away,lots of fly overs, we are right in the flight path I think.

[MrScorpio]

47. I'm stationed at Langley AFB

And that's the base I'm closest to, as well

[number6]

49. Hill AFB

..

[Mrs. Venation]

50. Bertha and I Live In Southern Maryland

so it's probably Andrews AFB for us, too. But are also close to Patxutant Naval Air Station, Dahlgren Naval Surface Warface Center and the Indian Head Naval base.

We wish the 'copters going to Andrews would not fly so low; damn, those things are loud.

Mrs. Venation

[arwalden]

58. Those Choppers Headed Towards Andrews AFB (MD) Are INDEED LOUD!!

They shake the house... they rattle the crystal... and frighten the dog.

-- Allen

[imax2268]

89. I remember those helo's coming over...

I also remember the C-5 Galaxies, the C-137's and the C-141's...Andrews was always hopping...!

Luke is great...but it's a fighter training base...F-16's mainly...don't get to many helo's or heavies in here...

[SOteric]

51. Fort Lewis, MacChord AFB, Bangor Nuke Sub Base, Whidbey Island NAS,

Bremerton Naval Base, and did we mention Boeing builds planes here, too. And the mothball fleet is just to the north. Also there's a Naval weather station at Sandpoint.

:hi: Just call us 'ground zero.'

[Kickin_Donkey]

52. Beale AFB

in Northern California. It had the distinction of being the home base of the SR-71 "Blackbird" spy plane.

I went to school with a lot of base kids, and many retired AF people settle down here. So far, Beale has managed to avoid being closed. But if it is, this county is in deep economic shit because there's very little other industry here, besides a struggling ag sector, and it's already one of the poorest counties in California.

[Cannikin]

53. Little Rock AFB, Pine Bluff chemical weapons arsenal

did I spell that right?

[VolcanoJen]

56. Wright Patterson AFB, just north of Dayton, Ohio

:-)

The USAF Museum is there, and the entire base really is one of the better ones...

[sasquatch]

66. Me too

I live in Carlisle it's a half hour drive away! Real nice to visit:)

[Solly Mack]

57. I live so close you could say I lived on one

:)



Fort Riley

[MikeH]

59. Miramar Marine Corps Air Station

I am in San Diego, 2-3 miles from Miramar. I hear the jets from there quite frequently, often drowning out any other noise.

[Sapphocrat]

60. If I stand on the roof of my house...

...I can see the wind tunnels at NASA Ames Research Center, and the giant, black-topped hangar at Moffett Field, in Mountain View, CA.

They've shut down the wind tunnels (which I used to be able to hear inside the house, with windows and doors shut), and the Navy has all but abandoned the base (or so they say) -- but I'm still reasonably confident that this would be a prime target for some nutcase (say, Kim Jong Il) who wanted to blow a piece of the West Coast off the map -- especially with defense contractors like Lockheed-Martin, etc., all over the place.

[efhmc]

61. Ft Hood is about 45 minutes from my house, as was stated ealier ,the

largest base in the world. I feel sooo safe.

[jus_the_facts]

64. 'bout 100 miles east of Barksdale AFB

:hi:

[HamstersFromHell]

65. Ft. Campbell

50 miles or so nw of here.

[Rattlesnake]

67. Camp Ripley.

It's about three hours away from me here in MN.

[ChoralScholar]

68. about an hour each way

either to Little Rock Air Force Base and to Fort Chaffee in Fort Smith, AR

[dudeness]

69. Pine Gap..central australia..

n/t

[CanuckAmok]

84. Keep an eye on those Echelon creeps for us, will ya?

Thanks!

[ScreamingMeemie]

70. Selfridge ANG in Michigan. I could spit and hit it. Planes fly over

all the time. Son loves it. I hate it. Nothing freakier than hearing jet fighters go roaring over at 2:30 AM.

[noonwitch]

93. I'm a ways from Selfridge, but it is the closest to me

I'm in Warren.

[Endangered Specie]

71. 45 minutes (35 speeding) to Fort Bragg.

[HawkerHurricane]

72. Naval Station San Diego/32nd Street Navy base

Which is convenient, since I work thier.

[goodhue]

73. Fort Snelling

I dunno if its really a base per se but a lot of reserves go there I think.

[nini]

75. Ft. MacArther - San Pedro, CA

not too much goes on there anymore..mostly air force housing (I think).

I'm about 4 miles from there.

[Dees]

76. I don't know. My wife is a native Marylander and she

does not know as well. I'm a transplanted Missourian and I barely know my way off the boardwalk. Maybe Andrews, Meade or Annapolis. Possibly a Coast Guard station? Maybe Uncle Dicky's bunker.

[Capn Sunshine]

77. Pt. Mugu NAS

Its also a seabee base; it's on the Pacific Coast about 20 mis West of here...

[ironflange]

79. Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls MT

It's about 300 miles away. It's fun to watch the warthogs and F-16s zoom around when I visit.

[Kazak]

81. Tinker AFB

I've often wondered what it would be like if someone decided to drop the bomb on Tinker.

[CanuckAmok]

82. US? Probably the Naval Yard at Everett, WA.

Unless there's an AFB between Everett and Blaine.

[TheMightyFavog]

85. It used to be...

K.I. Sawyer up there in Yooperland, I remeber going to the last airshow they held there before the base closed. Now I believe that the colsest military base to me is Ft. McCoy, which is about a six hour drive away form me.

[Spirochete]

86. Fort Lewis is the closest

about 100 miles. Fort Vancouver is here, but it's really small. Best known for 4th of July fireworks displays. hehe

[ploppy]

98. Me,

too!

[jmowreader]

90. 15 minutes from Fort Bragg

Fayetteville, NC

[northzax]

91. either the Washington Navy Yard or Ft. McNair

about equidistant...

[arwalden]

92. Anyone Near Moody or Warner Robins?

[SmileyBoy]

94. Grand Forks AFB, Grand Forks, ND. (75 miles away)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

95. near Westpoint and Stewart Air Force Base

[playahata1]

96. Four military bases in the Jacksonville, Florida, metropolitan area:

NAS Jacksonville
Mayport Naval Station
Camp Blanding (National Guard)
Kings Bay Submarine Base (Georgia)

[Throckmorton]

97. Sub Base, New London.

Which is actually in Groton CT. 6 Miles.

[XNASA]

99. Great Lakes Naval Training Center

But I couldn't tell you where the nearest "real" base is.

Ft. Sheridan, Rantoul, Glenview...all shut down.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

100. Pine Bush NY Air Force Black Projects And Underground Bases..tinfoil alert

Plattsburgh AFB is located not far north of Pine Bush,
NY. The UFO phenomenon attributed to Pine Bush - actually
located between the towns of Montgomery, Pine Bush, Walden, and
Wallkill, NY - is surrounded by airstrips, two of which are under
military control: Stewart AFB at Newburgh, NY, and the Special
Operations Training Center located about 5 miles to its west. The
latter SOTC has a major landing strip on it. It is located at the
northern end of the UFO hotspot, and is a major training area for
the FBI (at least back in 1993 it was)! It is fenced and its perimeter
is camera monitored.

I flew over it in a helicopter in 1993, taking lots of pictures. A
central area contains clusters of modified trailers and an airport
hanger. No aircraft wheel marks are visible on the pure white
tarmac.

After flying over the site, I went to dinner in Newburgh with a group
that was doing a video film on the area, and guess who showed up
to check us out? A whole table full of FBI agents. They were quick
to deny that anything covert was happening at the Special Ops
location, saying that it was being used only for defensive driver
training in dangerous high speed pursuits and escapes.I am curious about what is going on there, and how much
of it relates to the Pine Bush UFO phenomenon. I have suspected
that some of what I witnessed and experienced was part of a major
mind control experiment. Question is: Whose experiment? Military
training exercises have been witnessed by locals in the public sectors
of the Wallkill River valley.
:tinfoilhat:
BTW, did you know that Whitley Streiber's alleged alien contact
experiences (Communion) mostly happened at a cabin near Wallkill,
NY. That's right, the cabin is located on the perimeter of the UFO
hotspot area, and near the Special Ops Training Center. Is this just
coincidence? Could Whitley have been part of some mind control
experiment? Could I have been?

On the west side of the Shawangunk Mountain range, located just
west of the Special Ops Training Center is a strange government
facility tucked into the side of the mountain - overlooking Ellenville,NY. It is guarded with fences, and contains numerous
government-style buildings. It can't be seen except from its
perimeter or from the air. It is literally tucked into a hole between
mountain ridges. From what I have heard, airtraffic is restricted
from flying over it (rumor). A pilot's flight map of the area might
indicate such restricted airspace. New heavy earth (underground?)
construction was witnessed there in 1997 by people investigating the
area.

I hike these mountian forests of the Catskill Mountians and have come upon many of these huge air vents in the nmiddle of the forest.
You can check out various webpages to get an idea of just how
involved someone has been for over a decade in the Wallkill River
valley (UFO hotspot). Go to http://www.monmouth.com/~bcornet/

:tinfoilhat:

[bedtimeforbonzo]

101. Luke AFB

in Phoenix, AZ.

[felonious thunk]

102. Equidistant from Andrews AFB, Fort Belvoir and Fort Myer

probably about 10 minutes to any one of the three from my apt.

[dawn]

103. Camp Pendleton Marine Base

I'm about 40 minutes from there.

[Demonaut]

104. Buckley Air Force Base Aurora Co

used to be a National Guard base