All,
The Duty Station Threads are meant to be enduring threads where individuals with experience or insight in to being stationed in the area can give advice and tips on the duty station in question. If you have a heads-up on better neighborhoods to live in, what the optempo of units there is like, what DFACs are the best, internet providers, what cell phone companies are better in the area, etc, please feel free to share with the rest of us.
The hope is that these individual threads can serve as 'megathreads' on the posts in question, and we can get advice from experienced persons. Threads on reddit are not archived - and can continue to be commented in - until 6 months. Each week I will keep the full listing/links to all previous threads in a mega-list below, for ease of reference.
If you have specific questions about being stationed at these locations, please feel free to ask here, but know that we are not forcing or re-directing all questions to these threads, you can still make separate posts.
This post is covering the following;
Duty Station Thread - Miscellaneous / General Information
My hope for this last week is that any specialty locations we may have missed get talked about, but also general Duty Station tips/tricks. If you happen to have any 'tips for surviving living in military housing', this is the place for it.
I will be going back and editing every single post so that the entire-list of DSTs (as seen at the bottom of this one) is visible in every post. It will get added to the Wiki and potential sidebar'd under the Drive Project.
Based on feedback from previous threads, the second-half of the year will be replaced with a mega-thread series covering MOSes/CMFs. Each week will encompass a CMF (or more than one, or maybe split larger fields like medical, etc), and will follow a similar formatting as the DSTs.
A big thank you to everyone who has participated and provided information.
Most of these DSTs were over 100 comments. I've still seen update threads with station info 2-3 months after the fact, and tag me so I add it to the body of the DST. So, again, thanks for your participation.
Additional locations mentioned in this thread:
Additional Notes:
OPSEC REMINDER
Please be mindful of OPSEC concerns.
Upcoming DSTs:
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Previous DST
Duty Station Thread - Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri (Leavenworth, Riley, Sill, Leonard Wood)
Duty Station Thread - Wyoming, N/S Dakota, Nebraska (Camp Guernsey, Camp Ashland, Camp Grafton)
Duty Station Thread - Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana Areas (Lewis, JBLM, Yakima)
Duty Station Thread - Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin (Ripley, Dodge, McCoy)
Duty Station Thread - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (Butler, Atterbury, Stout, Detroit Arsenal)
Duty Station Thread - Alabama, Tennessee (Rucker, Redstone, Anniston, Holston, Milan, Campbell)
Duty Station Thread - North / South Carolina, Kentucky (Jackson, Bragg, Campbell, Knox)
Duty Station Thread - Alaska, Hawaii (Greely, Richardson, Wainwright, Schafter, Schofield, Wheeler)
Duty Station Thread - Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba (Andersen, Fort Buchanan, GTMO / Guantanamo Bay)
Duty Station Thread - South America / Caribbean (Soto Cano Honduras, SOUTHCOM Areas)
Duty Station Thread - Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan
Duty Station Thread - Italy, England, Poland, Misc Europe (Vicenza, Sigonella, Menwith)
Duty Station Thread - HOA/AP, Africa (Lemmonier)
Duty Station Thread - Miscellaneous / General Information
Previous Thread, added for additional information