Full Time Retired Military
Can any of you give us some in sight on being FT RM, like are you using military bases (monthly, weekly) State/Fed Parks, private. Are you in a 5th wheel, Class A, something else. Hubby has got the i...
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deltamaster, your point is well taken. When I joined the army back in 1964 the pay for an E-2 was $90/month and we did not have a lot of the on-base facilities like they have today. But $90/month was a lot of money back then. When I joined the army at the age of seven-teen I thought how great is this; they feed us, give us these neat uniforms to wear, and they also pay us. I was very naïve and that was before going to Vietnam.
I only go to certain Famcamps which I have visited before and know what facilities they have. Travis AFB allows you to stay up to 6-months, Beale AFB allows up to 4-months. I also like Point Mugu Naval Air Station Famcamp. Twenty-Nine Palms is o.k. but it’s in the desert.
The thing about the on-base gas stations is if you have a Military Star Exchange Card you can get a .05 per gallon discount. Although I do compare gas prices on-base with those off-base and also commissary and BX/PX prices with Wal-Mart, etc. The Famcamps I’ve been to, and I’ve been to a lot of them in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington State, and Nevada; have all been much cheaper than private RV parks, and they have full-hookups, Beale has free wifi and Travis has free cable TV hookup at every site. A lot of other Famcamps, like Ft. Lewis in Washington State, also have the wifi and cable T.V. amenities. It’s all explained on the militarycampgrounds.us website.
I only go to certain Famcamps which I have visited before and know what facilities they have. Travis AFB allows you to stay up to 6-months, Beale AFB allows up to 4-months. I also like Point Mugu Naval Air Station Famcamp. Twenty-Nine Palms is o.k. but it’s in the desert.
The thing about the on-base gas stations is if you have a Military Star Exchange Card you can get a .05 per gallon discount. Although I do compare gas prices on-base with those off-base and also commissary and BX/PX prices with Wal-Mart, etc. The Famcamps I’ve been to, and I’ve been to a lot of them in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington State, and Nevada; have all been much cheaper than private RV parks, and they have full-hookups, Beale has free wifi and Travis has free cable TV hookup at every site. A lot of other Famcamps, like Ft. Lewis in Washington State, also have the wifi and cable T.V. amenities. It’s all explained on the militarycampgrounds.us website.
