---
title: "Here Are The Worst Military Installations For Each Branch, According To You"
date: "2017-08-02"
modified: "2017-08-02"
authors:
  - name: "James Clark"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/worst-military-installations-branch/"
categories:
  - "Field Guide"
  - "Military Life"
tags:
  - "pcs"
---

# Here Are The Worst Military Installations For Each Branch, According To You

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**Or you know, just “The Army.”**

One thing holds true above all others in the military: You can choose your branch, but you can’t choose your duty station. Duty assignments are a crapshoot, and there’s nothing anyone can do about a losing dice-roll except complain. So we asked you, our readers, to list off the worst duty stations for your service, and you didn’t disappoint. [While 1,300 readers responded on Facebook](<https://www.facebook.com/TaskandPurpose/photos/a.660044760710168.1073741828.628773943837250/1361597843888186/?type=3&theater>), one branch was conspicuously mum when it came to shitty bases. Any guesses on which one it was?

Related: The 10 Dumbest Ways You Injured Yourselves In The Military »

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-3464.jpg>)

For everyone else — Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and even the Coast Guard — these were the worst bases to be stationed at:

### Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, California.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1646.png>)

### Forget “[29 Stumps](<https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twentynine%2520Stumps>)”: How about Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, in the California desert?

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1647.png>)

### Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1631.jpg>)

### Norfolk, Virginia.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1648.png>)

### Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1649.png>)

### Fort F\*\*king Stewart, Georgia.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1650.png>)

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1651.jpg>)

### Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska. Bears, dude.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1652.png>)

### This shouldn’t apply to the Air Force.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1653.png>)

### Case in point:

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-1654.png>)

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## Author
James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/JamesWClark>)  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jclarkjournalism/>)