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Originally Posted by bgm1961
That's a lot of repeat assignments! If you had known, you could've bought a house in the Fayetteville area and had permanent housing for each assignment. Funny... I was in the Air Force, and Pope was one of the few CONUS bases I never stepped foot on.
The Air Force has a few specialty codes or jobs that require coming "home" to a primary base several times during a career. But for most of us, our jobs take us wherever the mission calls for that specialty. Among my eleven assignments, I had only one repeat: Guam. But that doesn't include four trips to the desert, lasting between four months to a year for each.
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I bought a House In Elburn, Illinois, In 1983 On 5 acre and it was paid for in 15 years. 4 years before I retired The Last Bragg assignment, I wasn't there very Long I decided to go back to the conventional Army and not stay In special forces any Longer and finish out my career, not that I knew it was going to be over in 4 years at that time.
Once You went to the 10th Mountain Division, you would always return. But I also requested it, I was actually Only In the 82 Airborne at the Beginning of My Career. My follow-on assignments at Bragg were usually for schooling at the JFK Special Warfare Center or Other Units. I didn't want to retire to the Fayetteville area. A 17 acre place we rented several Times In the Fort Drum area was Originally going to be are retirement Home and I was going to sell the Illinois Home and Buy that Place. But my wife By then was a Nurse, she had been a Teacher Prior Had secured a Job as the Nursing administrator for a Psychiatric Unit back around where we live now. I think really she just wanted to be Far away from Family She is Canadian, and Her family lived outside of Ottawa, Canada. less that 2 Hours from Fort Drum
