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Title: Mid West American is boring
Post by: tussey on August 27, 2007, 06:37:20 PM
I've had to leave sunny Orlando, FL for 5 months of US Army Training. Spent 7 weeks at Ft Sill outside of Lawton, OK....OH MY GAWD...if god ever made anything  of anger it's the people in Lawton, OK...  :dunno_white: :dunno_white:

14 Weeks in Ft Leonard Wood, MO. Nice post but St. Robert......why does the army PICK these places?! ......I come home Oct 29.....5 months away from my poor GS  :mad: :mad:


BTW I'm blew things up with C4. Yea I'm that much more badass than you  :flipoff:
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: bucks1605 on August 27, 2007, 06:52:44 PM
so you're saying the people are jerks? or the town sucks?
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: jordanearl on August 27, 2007, 06:56:31 PM
hey now, i live bout an hour from fort wood, an love it :flipoff:
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: trumpetguy on August 27, 2007, 08:12:42 PM
And I live an hour and fifteen minutes from Ft. Sill in Lawton.  Great riding and beautiful scenery down there.  I like it.   

People-wise, it's a pretty typical base town.  Maybe you ought to ask yourself why there is such a thing as a "typical base town."  That has very little to do with the location. :kiss3:

Ft. Sill is a very historic army base.  Geronimo was imprisoned there after his capture.  I believe he is buried there.
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: jserio on August 27, 2007, 08:41:59 PM
wasn't a forum member recently banned for using expletives in the title of a post? :dunno_white:
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: spc on August 27, 2007, 10:43:34 PM
Yeah, I was banned for that.
And Ft. lost in the woods does suck.............
wait till you get to go to Ft. beat me
I've heard Sill is nice,..........
So you're 21B I assume??? or whatever the f%$k the army has designated CE now....
I would really like it if they would chill with reorganizing the MOS structure........
So where you already in or did they drop BCT down to 7 weeks???

Joe
A way to drunk former 96B20, 11B4A
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: Jake D on August 28, 2007, 07:06:25 AM
Quote from: jordanearl on August 27, 2007, 06:56:31 PM
hey now, i live bout an hour from fort wood, an love it :flipoff:

Yeah, I heard that.  I'd rather live in Mountain Grove or anywhere in southern Missouri than Orlando anyday.  Orlando?  Now that place sucks.   
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: tussey on August 28, 2007, 01:51:28 PM
Quote from: trumpetguy on August 27, 2007, 08:12:42 PM
And I live an hour and fifteen minutes from Ft. Sill in Lawton.  Great riding and beautiful scenery down there.  I like it.   

Maybe you ought to ask yourself why there is such a thing as a "typical base town."  That has very little to do with the location. :kiss3:

Ft. Sill is a very historic army base.  Geronimo was imprisoned there after his capture.  I believe he is buried there.

Sadly you are not far from the truth.....Every army post I've been to has a real crappy town. I always wonder if the town was crappy then they built the post or did they build the post and the town went to crap. Sadly I think it's the latter....  :icon_rolleyes:

Yes, I saw Gerinamo's grave. Interesting place Ft. Sill is, Lawton, not so much. But I know it does make GREAT riding area, I just didn't have my gs :(  :cry:
Title: Re: Mid West American F!@#%ng sucks
Post by: tussey on August 28, 2007, 01:54:37 PM
Quote from: spcterry on August 27, 2007, 10:43:34 PM
Yeah, I was banned for that.
And Ft. lost in the woods does suck.............
wait till you get to go to Ft. beat me
I've heard Sill is nice,..........
So you're 21B I assume??? or whatever the f%$k the army has designated CE now....
I would really like it if they would chill with reorganizing the MOS structure........
So where you already in or did they drop BCT down to 7 weeks???

Joe
A way to drunk former 96B20, 11B4A

I'm a new LT going through BOLC 3 for Engineers. My unit is 21B though.
Title: Re: Mid West American is boring
Post by: spc on August 28, 2007, 02:03:57 PM
Ahhhhhh.
Well, congrats on the commission :thumb:
Title: Re: Mid West American is boring
Post by: trumpetguy on August 29, 2007, 08:21:08 PM
Actually, I have found that EVERYWHERE has a good bike road somewhere nearby.  I have often been amazed (here in the relatively flat lands) to find twisty fun roads off the main highways.  You just have to look.

I also enjoy local history -- wherever we travel.  Keeps things from being "boring."

I grew up in the suburbs and always enjoyed the big city.  However, after living in semi-rural America for 17 years, there's a lot to be said for living somewhere with a low crime rate, little traffic, and inexpensive real estate!

So don't diss the Midwest!  It's not Orlando, but that's not necessarily a bad thing...  It depends on your perspective!