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Best Naval or Marine Corp Air Bases?
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RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
NAF EL CENTRO, CA. GOD'S COUNTRY.
NAS North Island in San Diego, CA.
I was a Q rat there (1988-1992)...which was sort of cool because the Q was brand new at the time and it had that "new Q smell"...but what was really cool was that the World Famous I Bar was less than 100 yards away in the old Q. That place was bunches of fun...but do not put your cover on the bar or touch any of the model aircraft suspended from the ceiling. I wonder if the World Famous I Bar is still there.
I was a Q rat there (1988-1992)...which was sort of cool because the Q was brand new at the time and it had that "new Q smell"...but what was really cool was that the World Famous I Bar was less than 100 yards away in the old Q. That place was bunches of fun...but do not put your cover on the bar or touch any of the model aircraft suspended from the ceiling. I wonder if the World Famous I Bar is still there.
Best base for liberty: The former NAS Alameda, CA. Off base liberty in the Bay Area in San Francisco/Oakland. Major professional, and college sports teams. Outstanding cultural events, and night life. The Alameda O-Club was fantastic... their Friday night "H-hour was epic, famous throughout the Navy & USAF, with the transient parking area was loaded every weekend.
Having CVs home-ported at the same base as their Airwing was very handy. All in all, my most favorite Air Base ever, a shame it was closed.
Best base for operations: NAS Lemoore, CA. The newest major military airbase in the country, opened in July 1962 after 4 years of construction. ultra-modern facilities including twin 13.5k' parallel runways, high-speed refueling pits, 7 huge modern hangars. Great base housing/admin area 7 miles distant from operations area, for noise reduction. Base is zoned "green belted", so that housing/retail development can never pose encroachment problems (which put Moffett & Alameda on the chopping block, and threaten Whidbey & Oceana). Hot in summer, but 10 mo/yr great flying WX. The 2 mo. 'foggy' near WOXOF season, makes our VFA Hornet jocks the most proficient instrument military pilots... arguably!
Military-friendly civilians, great place to raise a family, but admittedly, liberty/night life sucks for bachelors, but there's Bay area/SF & LA/SanDogg for weekend libs.
*And no airbase anywhere... has any place that rocks like Jack Stone's Barn, the AirPac version of the late Trader Jon's!
BzB
Still there and still fun . . .
As long as those hands have never been to K-Bay.
Only when it was a NAVY base. The Marines painted all the buildings poop yellow.
I miss the flying out there. Go VFR straights or you could hit up the mountains and tool around them for awhile. Beautiful scenery and if the weather sucked, you go go to Eastern Washington and it'd be clear there, or head south to Eugene.
Say what?
Back in the late 80's and early 90's...whenever we (helo guys from NASNI) would go to the O Club at Miramar for Wednesday (or was it Thursday?) ladies night, I would get cock blocked by some jet guy.
Boo.
