It was better when the WHIFF was the WHIFF

Al Dhafra UAE, as long as you could still leave the base. Private beaches, halfway decent margharita's, and lonely expat nurses from the commonwealth.

Zargosa, Spain, stumbling down the "tubes" at 0400. Wow.

I spent my last two years in Zaragoza living right on top of the tubes :D They should cut you orders to rehab following that assignment! What a great place. Its a shame the AF hardly goes there anymore.

Manas... back in the day though! Back in 2003ish you were able to buy unlimited beers and you were intermingled with the Italians, Danish, Dutch, and Aussies. You were able to go downtown and stay the night at the Hyatt! You could bring back unlimited amounts of local Vodka and wines.

Now I hear it's 2 beers and no off base. How times have changed! Diego Garcia is a close second!

Red Flag at Nellis back in 2001, wasn't too bad
Pheonix Banner for 3 weeks at White Marsh, MD back in 2004
Prince Sultan back in 2000
Seeb in 2002..lots of gurls...the Brit Bar was awesome!
Al Udeid in 2004/2007
Getting stuck at Moron for 3 days..on my way to Prince Sultan in 2000
Delta at ETAR, back in the day when active duty pulled 3 month tours
RON at St. John's, Newfoundland on a Friday night..before or after crossing the pond

I spent a month on Guam, that was pretty nice. Also spent 2 on Sicily, and a couple of 45 day rotations to Incirlik. All were pretty great. The last couple of 4 monthers to the Died sucked, though.

I'm hearing rumors that the "apartments" over at the Died are open now... is that true? What happened to Coalition Village? I'm going in about a week... just curious if I will be spending a few days in a group tent or have my own room?

Hmmmmnnnn...deployment needs to be defined...but

7 day airshow in Melbourne, Australia is hard to beat.
14 days in Keflavik was good
14 day Nato excercise in Karup, Denmark
16 days in Istres, France
16 days in Curacao in Feb. during Carnivale is very close to illegal fun
7 days for an airshow in Acapulco and not participating in said airshow (done that one twice!)
Coronet to Souda Bay, Crete in the summer when all the Scandavians are on holiday makes for very good scenery even if you're only there for 3 days.

Those are just some of the highlights...

Not sure what it is like for transients. I was there for four months ending in Jan, and we had the typical hard billet rooms, the village hadn't opened yet. Then we moved to tents with other transients for a week or so when the other Sq relieved us. So your guess is as good as mine. Who knows, sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Just got back in July and the "apartments" were open but only to those that were on 6 month or 365 "vacation" orders. All 4 monthers were still in CC, but everyone (pilots and aircrew) were getting their own rooms.

Hope this helps, but I don't think anything can help deploying to the Deid!:cool: