[Guam Explained] (Viewer #1,982,808)
My Navy Retiree brother Roy was actually stationed on Guam with his family for a few years. It’s… pretty dreary there. The crushed coral that they make the roads out of gets slippery as ice when it rains, and the speed limit is 35 everywhere even on a good day.
Also, milk was $7 a gallon, because EVERYTHING has to be imported across 1000+ miles of ocean to get there.
During my twenty years in Uncle Sam’s USAF I met people who had been assigned to (Anderson AFB) Guam. Some hated it and some really liked it. Mostly the guys that hated it tended to be single and the guys that liked it tended to be accompanied by their families. The married guys all agreed that the beaches and and short flying distance to Saipan and other islands of the Marianas which also have great beaches made it pretty good assignment. The single guys found it confining and boring with not much night life to speak of. Based on this info and being married and on the list for a long (not remote or isolated) tour I volunteered for an assignment to Guam…I got Elmendorf AFB, Alaska instead.
At least it wasn’t Thule, eh?
Thule AB Greenland, nope I never had the pleasure.
I can see how the negotiation probably went- Spanish negotiator to his aide “Guam? what are they talking about?”
I think it’s Santa Claus’ off-season location; at least I was in college with a San Nicholas. Sometimes I tell my kids I knew Santa Claus’ nephew.