Photo Essay: 10 of the Most Attractive Bases for US Military Service Members
I had little experience with a troops prior to relocating to San Diego with my father dual as well as a a half years ago, as well as we still feel similar to we learn something brand brand new about a Navy every day. The initial bottom we stayed upon in San Diego has a tiny marina, as well as we recollect being astounded to find a bottom a pleasing place to live!
Below have been ten bases which have been tasteful given of a natural beauty of a place they have been stationed in or given of special features of a actual base.
1. Marine Corps Base Hawaii This Marine Corps base, located upon a east coast of Oahu, plays host to RIMPAC, Rim of a Pacific, a largest multinational troops practice in a world. Whether youre stationed here or attending a month-long RIMPAC exercise, we can surf upon bottom during Pyramid Rock, transport a circuitously 4,000-step Stairway to Heaven, or take sailing as well as canoeing classes during a on-base marina. Photo: U.S. Navy
2. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base The stigma attached to Guantanamo might have a inclusion upon this list questionable, though a opportunities for scuba diving, spearfishing as well as water sports, as well as a easy entrance to alternative Caribbean islands, have Guantanamo an preferred place for singles seeking for a comfortable duty station. Although cordoned off from a rest of Cuba, a bottom is essentially quite large as well as includes a biologically diverse area which is home to most endangered wildlife species. Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo (All Rights Reserved)!
3. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington Located in Washingtons Puget Sound, Whidbey Island is nearby South Whidbey as well as Deception Pass State Parks, dual areas which preserve hundreds of acres of land for camping, fishing, crabbing, as well as hiking. Old growth, tall firs cover most of a island, as well as a dim water surrounding a area is home to gray wales, so whelk watching as well as boating have been popular. Rain as well as fog have been common, though residents can transport in a state parks as well as boat during Possession Point or Saratoga Passage.Photo: Marion Doss
4. Fort Carson, CO Fort Carson, The Best Hometown in a Army, is renouned for a proximity to a hiking as well as rock climbing during Cheyenne Mountain as well as Pikes Peak. In a winter, Morale, Welfare, as well as Recreation (MWR) organizes trips for backcountry skiing as well as snowboarding, as well as Colorado Springs museums as well as ancestral landmarks have been a reduced drive away. Photo: The U.S. Army
5. Fort Wainwright, Alaska we wouldnt recommend Fort Wainwright, nearby Fairbanks, to any one who doesnt similar to a cold, though if we do, a mountain scenery surrounding this Army bottom is impressive. Ice Fishing during Birch Lake, sleet machining during White Mountain, climbing, as well as hiking have been renouned sports up here. If we revisit a base, MWR additionally organizes scenic as well as wildlife tours to get a ambience of executive Alaska. Photo: U.S. Army Alaska
6. Naval Base Guam Guam should be upon a wish list for sailors who wish to be stationed somewhere where they can dive to over 200 feet with tall prominence as well as surf, though most spots similar to Tumon Bay have been embankment breaks as well as not for beginners. Guams troops story is still remembered during ancestral landmarks similar to pillboxes in a hills used during WWII. The native Chamorro people operate markets with normal crafts, as well as Guam is additionally one of a most appropriate places to be stationed to transport quickly to Japan, Australia, Fiji, as well as Korea. Photo: Garret Pankow (All Rights Reserved)
7. Ramstein Airbase Germany Some friends told me we should embody usually bases in Germany upon this list, as well as it was tough to pick usually one. Ramstein is not usually located in a scenic wine-growing region, though it is additionally such a large bottom which there is an active village of Americans to host events upon 4th of July, tell a newspaper, hold classes, or most importantly, lend a hand to brand brand new family groups upon base. It is additionally a executive place to transport all over Europe upon reduced flights. Photo: Tobias
8. Eielson Air Force Base Located nearby a city of North Pole, Alaska (where hundreds of letters uncover up for Santa Claus every year), Eielson arguably doesnt have a most pleasant weather with normal heat hovering around zero degrees for 4 months a year. But during a summer, a tiny village hosts festivals, as well as a bases Natural Resource Office can provide information upon hunting, fishing, as well as trapping in a area. Aurora borealis, or Northern Lights,! can add itionally be seen here, which is reason sufficient for me to wish to move. Photo: Peter Stinson
9. Naval Sub Base Point Loma we might be inequitable about this bottom given my father works upon it, though with views of downtown San Diego, Cabrillo Monument, Coronado, as well as Mexico we cant censure me. This is a home port of multiform submarines as well as alternative non-submarine commands. The weather, executive place in San Diego, as well as a design of a buildings, most built during a 1930s as well as 40s have it a pleasing base, as well as a great place to be stationed. Photo: Author (All Rights Reserved)
10. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery Maine has been a home of Portsmouth Navy Yard given 1800 as well as has been producing subs given 1917. Most Navy bases have been upon a water so they have a little sort of scenic view, though Portsmouth is special given of a small, historic, locale it sits in, initial staid in 1623. Today, sailors stationed during Kittery can revisit Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, bed as well as breakfasts, a Kittery Historical as well as Naval Museum, outlets as well as theaters. Photo: Marion Doss
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Which of these bases would we similar to to be stationed at? Any not upon a list which have a particular interest for place or village features?
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