Duty Station Thread - New Mexico, Texas (White Sands, JB San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Hood, Bliss, Goodfellow AFB)

All,

The Duty Station Threads are meant to be enduring threads where individuals with experience or insight in to being stationed in the area can give advice and tips on the duty station in question. If you have a heads-up on better neighborhoods to live in, what the optempo of units there is like, what DFACs are the best, internet providers, what cell phone companies are better in the area, etc, please feel free to share with the rest of us.

The hope is that these individual threads can serve as 'megathreads' on the posts in question, and we can get advice from experienced persons. Threads on reddit are not archived - and can continue to be commented in - until 6 months. Each week I will keep the full listing/links to all previous threads in a mega-list below, for ease of reference.

If you have specific questions about being stationed at these locations, please feel free to ask here, but know that we are not forcing or re-directing all questions to these threads, you can still make separate posts.

This post is covering the following;

Duty Station Thread - New Mexico, Texas (White Sands, JB San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Hood, Bliss, Goodfellow AFB)

This is not limited to the bases mentioned, and is intended to be all-inclusive. Any random ARNG/USAR or other bases, or other small posts, are welcome to be discussed. Tag me and I'll add the other locations to the body of this post for searchability.

Additional locations mentioned in this thread: Joint Reserve Base Ellington Field

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Duty Station Thread - New Mexico, Texas (White Sands, JB San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Hood, Bliss, Goodfellow AFB)