PMPT
Well-Known Member
Since OP hasn't answered, I recently winged out of KNQI so I'll take a stab at a few questions.
O Club - has been shuttered and reopened several times throughout the coronavirus adventure. It used to be pretty lively for winging Fridays, and during the bladegate fiasco it became fairly popular on thursday nights with people who were also going bowling. For those of you who went to NASK for I jet/ advanced, it probably hasn't changed much at all since you were there other than that the Country Luau is now either closed down or basically no longer visited by SNAs. A few folks went to the silver spur but its still a complete shithole (a friend saw someone smoking meth in the toilet, he says, and I can believe it). There was a bar on the north end of town called Nucky's that was very popular for quiz nights, but that also obviously died an early death with covid. The HEB in town is now also actually pretty decent.
The one upside of the Kingsville O Club is that some genius in MWR got permission for there to be a van to shuttle SNAs onto and off of base from the O Club to the 2 or 3 most popular places for SNAs to live, so you could safely go and get shithoused at the O Club and then come home without having to worry about racking up a DUI with the local fuzz or base fuzz. Solid idea. Unfortunately again though, covid pretty much wrecked this, and I think it was from about St Patricks day until some time in the summer completely closed, then reopened for a bit with limited hours and capacity, closed again, and then reopened, etc etc. I had a beer or two there after I winged but it certainly wasn't the more or less all-hands (commissioned, at least) TW2 rager I'd have expected before covid.
O Club - has been shuttered and reopened several times throughout the coronavirus adventure. It used to be pretty lively for winging Fridays, and during the bladegate fiasco it became fairly popular on thursday nights with people who were also going bowling. For those of you who went to NASK for I jet/ advanced, it probably hasn't changed much at all since you were there other than that the Country Luau is now either closed down or basically no longer visited by SNAs. A few folks went to the silver spur but its still a complete shithole (a friend saw someone smoking meth in the toilet, he says, and I can believe it). There was a bar on the north end of town called Nucky's that was very popular for quiz nights, but that also obviously died an early death with covid. The HEB in town is now also actually pretty decent.
The one upside of the Kingsville O Club is that some genius in MWR got permission for there to be a van to shuttle SNAs onto and off of base from the O Club to the 2 or 3 most popular places for SNAs to live, so you could safely go and get shithoused at the O Club and then come home without having to worry about racking up a DUI with the local fuzz or base fuzz. Solid idea. Unfortunately again though, covid pretty much wrecked this, and I think it was from about St Patricks day until some time in the summer completely closed, then reopened for a bit with limited hours and capacity, closed again, and then reopened, etc etc. I had a beer or two there after I winged but it certainly wasn't the more or less all-hands (commissioned, at least) TW2 rager I'd have expected before covid.