Originally Posted by JungleBus

Naw, my comment was somewhat TIC, VA Ave really wasn't that bad. I've heard it's got a lot better over the years. That said, I wouldn't walk in the area between the holiday inn & the training center alone at night. Once you get west of the cemetery or east of Crew Outfitters it's a lot better, I routinely walked home (behind the Greek gyro place) after D periods. First block occasionally had some sketchy dudes hanging out for no particular reason, after that always felt pretty safe. During indoc I walked between training center & spondivets/malone's area at night (with other guys) & wouldn't have felt horribly safe alone. Pretty much matched what the instructors told me (though a few thought I was nuts to walk on VA Ave at all).