Photo Essay: 10 of the Most Attractive Bases for US Military Service Members

As she approaches her one-year anniversary of being a troops spouse, Matador intern Morgan Leahy deBoer thinks about what US troops bases have a many appeal.

I had tiny experience with a troops prior to relocating to San Diego with my husband dual as good as a the half years ago, as good as we still feel similar to we learn something brand new about a Navy each day. The initial bottom we stayed upon in San Diego has a tiny marina, as good as we remember being astounded to find a bottom a pleasing place to live!

Below have been 10 bases which have been attractive given of a natural beauty of a place they have been stationed in or given of special features of a actual base.

Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

1. Marine Corps Base Hawaii This Marine Corps base, located upon a east seashore of Oahu, plays horde to RIMPAC, Rim of a Pacific, a largest multinational troops practice in a world. Whether youre stationed here or in attendance a month-long RIMPAC exercise, we can roller upon bottom during Pyramid Rock, hike a nearby 4,000-step Stairway to Heaven, or take sailing as good as canoeing classes during a on-base marina. Photo: U.S. Navy

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

2. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base The tarnish attached to Guantanamo might make a inclusion upon this list questionable, though a opportunities for scuba diving, spearfishing as good as H2O sports, as good as a easy access to other Caribbean islands, make Guantanamo an ideal place for singles looking for a comfortable avocation station. Although cordoned off from a rest of Cuba, a bottom is actually utterly large as good as includes a biologically diverse area which is home to many involved wildlife species. Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo (All Rights Reserved)

NAS Whidbey Island, Washington

3. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington Located in Washingtons Puget Sound, Whidbey Island is near South Whidbey as good as Deception Pass State Parks, dual areas which preserve hundreds of acres of land for camping, fishing, crabbing, as good as hiking. Old growth, tall firs cover many of a island, as good as a dark H2O surrounding a area is home to gray wales, so whelk watching as good as boating have been popular. Rain as good as haze have been common, though residents can hike in a state parks as good as kayak during Possession Point or Saratoga Passage.Photo: Marion Doss

Fort Carson, CO

4. Fort Carson, CO Fort Carson, The Best Hometown in a Army, is renouned for a vicinity to a hiking as good as climbing during Cheyenne Mountain as good as Pikes Peak. In a winter, Morale, Welfare, as good as Recreation (MWR) organizes trips for backcountry skiing as good as snowboarding, as good as Colorado Springs museums as good as ancestral landmarks have been a reduced expostulate away. Photo: The U.S. Army

Fort Wainwright

5. Fort Wainwright, Alaska we wouldnt recommend Fort Wainwright, near Fairbanks, to anyone who doesnt similar to a cold, though if we do, a towering scenery surrounding this Army bottom is impressive. Ice Fishing during Birch Lake, sleet machining during White Mountain, climbing, as good as hiking have been renouned sports up here. If we revisit a base, MWR additionally organizes scenic as good as wildlife tours to get a taste of executive Alaska. Photo: U.S. Army Alaska

Naval Base Guam

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 high prominence as good as surf, though many spots similar to Tumon Bay have been embankment breaks as good as not for beginners. Guams troops history is still remembered during ancestral landmarks similar to pillboxes in a mountainous country used during WWII. The local Chamorro people work markets with traditional crafts, as good as Guam is additionally a single of a best places to be stationed to transport quickly to Japan, Australia, Fiji, as good as Korea. Photo: Garret Pankow (All Rights Reserved)

Ramstein Airbase Germany

7. Ramstein Airbase Germany Some friends told me we should include usually bases in Germany upon this list, as good as it was difficult to pick just 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 horde events upon 4th of July, tell a newspaper, hold classes, or many importantly, lend a palm to brand new family groups upon base. It is additionally a executive location to transport all over Europe upon reduced flights. Photo: Tobias

AFB Eilston

8. Eielson Air Force Base Located near a city of North Pole, Alaska (where hundreds of letters uncover up for Santa Claus each year), Eielson arguably doesnt have a many pleasant weather with average temperature hovering around zero degrees for four months a year. But during a summer, a tiny village hosts festivals, as good as a bases Natural Resource Office can provide information upon hunting, fishing, as good as trapping in a area. Aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, can ! addition ally be seen here, which is reason enough for me to wish to move. Photo: Peter Stinson

Naval Sub Base Point Loma, San Diego, CA

9. Naval Sub Base Point Loma we might be biased about this bottom given my husband works upon it, though with views of downtown San Diego, Cabrillo Monument, Coronado, as good as Mexico we cant censure me. This is a home port of multiform submarines as good as other non-submarine commands. The weather, executive location in San Diego, as good as a design of a buildings, many built during a 1930s as good as 40s make it a pleasing base, as good as a great place to be stationed. Photo: Author (All Rights Reserved)

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

10. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery Maine has been a home of Portsmouth Navy Yard given 1800 as good as has been producing subs given 1917. Most Navy bases have been upon a H2O so they have some 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 good as breakfasts, a Kittery Historical as good as Naval Museum, outlets as good 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 location or village features?


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