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Icon Of Sin posted:Fort Wainwright had to condemn an entire neighborhood before anyone even moved in because contractors tested the soil and found some nasty contaminants (and getting the area designated as a superfund site). lol the housing department tried to give me a home there
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I was looking at a GS job there for funsies. Worth it as a civilian?
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Soulex posted:I was looking at a GS job there for funsies. Worth it as a civilian? If you're into hunting, fishing, offroading, etc: people go there and never leave for those reasons. If you're bothered by small towns, being cold, how remote Fairbanks is, or being near an army base, don't bother. I think the coldest I ever saw there was -75F, "summer" lasts all of 10 weeks, the sun barely rises in the winter (~3.5 hrs of sunlight on winter solstice) and doesn't go away in the summer (twilight is the best you get), the roads get done with gravel instead of salt (it's too cold for salt to work its magic) so your windshield will have to be replaced every year, driving on ice/snow-pack is fairly weird at first, sometimes its gets so cold the fog itself freezes, etc. People were never meant to live so far north, so of course the army put a loving base there.
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That's not a real temperature those temperatures don't exist
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Wasabi the J posted:That's not a real temperature those temperatures don't exist My jeep's thermometer wouldn't admit to this happening. it won't read past -30F! 
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Wasabi the J posted:That's not a real temperature those temperatures don't exist
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I turned on the seat warmer this morning because it was 65.
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Casimir Radon posted:I've seen -60F windchill on a training exercise. It froze the liquid in the portapotty and all the poo poo mounded up until it was almost at seat level. We finished up before we needed to find a stick to knock it over with. The only redeeming factor (if there could be one) to the cold of Fairbanks is that there's almost never any wind. It's just so cold at that point that it doesn't matter anymore either way, though. e: think about it this way: it's a 100 degree difference between -30F and room temp. You've got a temperature swing of ~140 degrees from going inside to outside on the coldest days of winter.
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Casimir Radon posted:I've seen -60F windchill on a training exercise. It froze the liquid in the portapotty and all the poo poo mounded up until it was almost at seat level. We finished up before we needed to find a stick to knock it over with. I had to do this in pit toilets when working as a ranger in south western Canada. It was a cone of poo poo we had to break with a shovel. If you were stupid/crazy enough to sit down on the can it would have gone up your rear end.
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Re: All military bases are superfund sites. I'm sure the VA will think about presumptively service connecting some of the wildly diverse diseases and disabilities that will be caused by the absurdly dangerous chemicals the DoD had seen fit to hand over to 17/18-year-old recruits
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The one really weird but truly unique experience the military gave me was experiencing my shyt having a hang time before it hit the Splash Zone in those weird range toilets
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My favorite part about Wainwright so far is they still haven’t issued me any ECWCS and likely won’t. But I have the FREE stuff, which is just as good, right? 
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Thump! posted:My favorite part about Wainwright so far is they still haven’t issued me any ECWCS and likely won’t. Wearing waffle tops/bottoms under your standard uniform gets you further than it has any right to.
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Icon Of Sin posted:If you're into hunting, fishing, offroading, etc: people go there and never leave for those reasons. If you're bothered by small towns, being cold, how remote Fairbanks is, or being near an army base, don't bother. I think the coldest I ever saw there was -75F, "summer" lasts all of 10 weeks, the sun barely rises in the winter (~3.5 hrs of sunlight on winter solstice) and doesn't go away in the summer (twilight is the best you get), the roads get done with gravel instead of salt (it's too cold for salt to work its magic) so your windshield will have to be replaced every year, driving on ice/snow-pack is fairly weird at first, sometimes its gets so cold the fog itself freezes, etc. People were never meant to live so far north, so of course the army put a loving base there. thanks not caring here posted:-75 you gotta be out of your loving mind
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All of us stationed in Anchorage felt sorry for the poor bastards up at Wainwright. Coldest I ever saw was -20 with the windchill, and everyone came in to work not saying "drat it's cold", but saying "thank god we're not at Wainwright."
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Icon Of Sin posted:Wearing waffle tops/bottoms under your standard uniform gets you further than it has any right to. Is everyone else wearing waffles? THEN NEITHER ARE YOU, SHITBAG!!!
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We wear waffle tops around the office instead of our blouses in the winter. Nice workaround to that dumb poo poo about how you have to wear a blouse under the fleece. Also I wear merino long underwear because it's better than any of the issue poo poo. If we're in the field I'll wear the top too.
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Dear army plz make a military base for me on an island in the Caribbean Name it JLB DD214/SMDFTB
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VI or PR ARNG?
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They built the bases in Hawaii downwind of active volcanos. I can't wait to see how they gently caress up Caribbean bases.
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MurderBot posted:Dear army plz make a military base for me on an island in the Caribbean Should have joined the Navy
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-20 in Chicago was bad enough.
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Some people must like temps like that, I applied for a couple jobs at Poker Flat after college but didn't get any offers. Upstate NY is decent enough for cold, think the coldest it got last winter was -15 which wasn't too bad. One of my friends from work wants me to go with him skiing on Mt. Washington in February, if I do that I'll know more about my tolerance for cold (or become material for this thread). Edit: the wind chill got down to -40 once at USAFA while I was there, which kind of blew.
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Soulex posted:Should have joined the Navy Yeah, NAS Key West is literally on an island in the Carribean, so...
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Yeah, NAS Key West is literally on an island in the Carribean, so... Gulf of Mexico. The Caribbean is south of Cuba so technically the only way you can get a Caribbean station is Guantanamo Bay. Lol.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Some people must like temps like that, I applied for a couple jobs at Poker Flat after college but didn't get any offers. TBH 10 degrees to probably -20 doesn't feel all that different, layer right and you can walk around feeling completely comfortable as long as it's calm; it's the wind that is murder at those temps.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Gulf of Mexico. The Caribbean is south of Cuba so technically the only way you can get a Caribbean station is Guantanamo Bay. Lol. Well, parts of it are probably in the Caribbean after Irma, at least.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Some people must like temps like that, I applied for a couple jobs at Poker Flat after college but didn't get any offers. I enjoy it. Sucks getting a car to actually run in those temperatures, but I enjoy it.
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Faster Blaster posted:Re: All military bases are superfund sites. This is sarcasm, right? Because no. They absolutely will not.
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MurderBot posted:Dear army plz make a military base for me on an island in the Caribbean There's a USAF FOL at Curacao. Home of my worst deployment, if that tells you how the AF can ruin anything.
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DoktorLoken posted:TBH 10 degrees to probably -20 doesn't feel all that different, layer right and you can walk around feeling completely comfortable as long as it's calm; it's the wind that is murder at those temps. It really doesn't. At a certain point it's just miserable to be outside whether it's 5 or -30. Layers help a lot, but feeling the inside of your nose freeze and hearing it crackle if you flex your nostrils isn't fun. Also get hosed if you wear glasses. Balaclavas are super warm and awesome but my glasses would always fog up and then freeze unless I left my nose outside the warmth.
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Guys the national guard let me serve my country as a citizen soulja boi plz don't be negative tyvm
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Aranan posted:It really doesn't. At a certain point it's just miserable to be outside whether it's 5 or -30. Layers help a lot, but feeling the inside of your nose freeze and hearing it crackle if you flex your nostrils isn't fun. What up, balaclava+glasses pal?   I've found that breathing through the mouth helps, although that leads to other problems. Someone should market winter-grade no-fog glasses.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What up, balaclava+glasses pal? I've used Rain-x on my prescription safety glasses before with excellent results. Apparently you're not supposed to use it on plastics but I've never had a problem.
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Coldest I've been out in for extended periods of time was -14F , -70 with wind chill, and that was some serious Jack London To Build A Fire type poo poo without the proper equipment. Looking back my boy scout troop was loving insane.
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Luckily I don't have to do stupid poo poo like motorpool Mondays out in good awful weather anymore, so it doesn't matter for me. I've always said there's a big difference between living somewhere with lovely weather and Armying somewhere with lovely weather.
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Snow gets good under 20 but under 10 I start to get a little cold on the lift. Had to ride the spreaders off a ship in Alaska to get to the dock since the tide is so extreme there. Think I only had a sweater and some jeans on in whatever - temp it was.
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