nikole_ann
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| 19 Aug 2010 04:22 PM |
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Can you tell me much about being stationed in Puerto Rico? Or any links to previous threads that might give me some info? How's PR? What about housing in Rio Bayamon?
Any good info to know?
What's it like in Guam?
Any females that have been assigned to these places with their perspective?
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pepperdoggie
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| 19 Aug 2010 04:46 PM |
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Snakes!  |
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nikole_ann
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| 19 Aug 2010 06:44 PM |
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really? ...I heard they are EVERYWHERE. and I also heard it was a myth. :[ |
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| 19 Aug 2010 07:00 PM |
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the station/sector at PR is quite nice. Cheap beer at the exchange. |
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Gears
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| 20 Aug 2010 07:30 AM |
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Guam has snakes. Brown tree snakes.... Google it. Hawaii is snake free and a favorite vacation spot for Indiana Jones. |
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nikole_ann
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| 20 Aug 2010 10:14 AM |
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Thanks for the info! ....not too interested in Hawaii. Just wondering about Guam and Puerto Rico. Hopefully there is more to Puerto Rico than cheap beer at the exchange. |
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Gears
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| 20 Aug 2010 10:51 AM |
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PR is nice, Ive been to Roosevelt Roads a couple times, you aren't missing much. I here San Juan is pretty nice. |
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| Fighting spirit.- You know what this is. Without it, you are only a human biped who wears pants. With it, you are a live, red-blooded go-getter-one who will succeed. Have you the grit to stay with a hard job? Never say "I can't." Forget there is such a phrase. Don't be a quitter. "A man may be down but never out" - until he admits it."
-From the U.S. Navy Bluejackets' Manual circa 1940 |
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| 20 Aug 2010 11:43 AM |
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They have an awesome rainforest that has natural waterslides. Lots of tourists right outside the gate to the base, where most cruise ships pull up. I wouldn't bring a car there because driving on their "roads" are hectic. Theres a fort something there too but I had duty and didn't get to go. There is a bad side of san juan you have to stay away from. Pretty nice nightlife, I wish I would have brought my canon, they have street vendors, and the plaza by the base always has something going on at night, I can't wait to go back.
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nikole_ann
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| 21 Aug 2010 07:03 AM |
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at drydock we have basically a garage door, and there is this mouse that hangs out up there. One day while eating lunch you just hear a squeal and a snake drops down to the deck with the mouse in it mouth, and eats the whole thing.
I don't do snakes.
alligators
spiders
all available to us free of charge at the drydock.
No guam for me. |
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Bailey
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| 21 Aug 2010 08:44 PM |
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I'm with ya Nikole. I would LOVE to get Hawaii, Guam or PR!!!  Great diving! Unlikely odds though I'm guessing? |
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pepperdoggie
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| 22 Aug 2010 01:21 PM |
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If you get assigned to one of the "Great White Needles of Death )...thats a 378' Cutter based in Hawaii, suprisingly you may find yourself spending a significant amount of time patrolling ALASKAN waters.....The best of both worlds. Fun in the sun, and fishin' off the fantale in Alaska...or seeing the Inside Passage for free! |
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LucasVA
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| 23 Aug 2010 11:35 AM |
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im hoping to get one of those "great white needles of death" straight out of bootcamp. my oldest sister was on the cgc rush out of sand island. i would love to get the rush or jarvis or one of the other smaller cutters in district 14. |
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| 23 Aug 2010 12:03 PM |
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If I have to go to a big white after A school i'd love to go to the rush. My stomach would appreciate a land billet though. |
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acu167
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| 24 Aug 2010 11:02 AM |
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The housing in Bayamon is one of the best military housing there is! I was stationed at GANTSEC for three years and loved the housing they offered (for married couples). We did lots of tubing and fishing, however the food takes some getting used to. Learn to speak "fast food spanish" as quickly as you can. you will need it. Have fun if you get stationed their!!! |
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jkribell
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| 02 Sep 2010 12:32 AM |
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holy chit - that gave me the heebeejeebees!!! I freekin hate snakes and they make me want to cuss!!!! If it were me, I woulda been using loppers and cut it into teeny weeny little pieces....just saying - my skin is still crawlin!!!! eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkk
Posted By nikole_ann on 20 Aug 2010 11:54 PM
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| Lucky to live in Hawaii - Mom to FS3Kribell, USCGC Hamilton, San Diego |
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nikole_ann
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| 07 Sep 2010 11:01 AM |
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@ jkribell- hahaaaa yea i hate them too. so, I'm just guessing you've never seen the movie "snakes on a plane" ?? lol |
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jkribell
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| 14 Sep 2010 07:54 PM |
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That would be......no. I almost didn't make it through the first Indiana Jones movie either!!! |
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| Lucky to live in Hawaii - Mom to FS3Kribell, USCGC Hamilton, San Diego |
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