Information On Thule Ab?

[jango220]

I'm heading up to Thule AB for a TDY for a week and a half. Checked the TDY gouge and it was empty. Everything I've heard about the place is all hearsay, but not much of it sounds good, which sucks because I'm actually excited to go. Anyone ever been up there and have some info on it?

I'll be sure to update the gouge when I get back too.

[amcflyboy]

Everything he said. Stay away from Dundas peninsula, it's off limits. Enjoy the scenery, it's actually quite beautiful. It's too bad you're not going up there in April because you can see the Northern lights, like I did when I was at Sondrestrom AB.

[Scooter14]

Stay away from Dundas peninsula, it's off limits.

OK, you can't just mention about a place that's off-limits and not tell us why...Hookers? Strippers? 24 hour raves? You can fall off the peninsula and die? Is there a beautiful girl behind every tree?

[brickhistory]

OK, you can't just mention about a place that's off-limits and not tell us why...Hookers? Strippers? 24 hour raves? You can fall off the peninsula and die? Is there a beautiful girl behind every tree?

Nope, it's where they film "Ice Road Truckers" and they don't GOVs ruining their shots....

sorry..........

BTW, how the F*CK is that history and shown on the History Channel? Sorry again, complete thread derailment.

[amcflyboy]

Yeah sorry, they film Inuit porn there!

No really it's because it's out of the Thule defense zone, so if you get hurt out there, no one will know it. This is what base personnel have told us, unless they've come up with another lame a$$ excuse.

[jango220]

Back from the great white north. Actually a cool base if you spend the right amount of time there (i.e. anything less then 2 weeks). As much fun as it all was, I can see how being there in the dead of winter, in -40 temps with 130 knot winds minus any sunlight would suck hard. The entire places looks like the surface of Mars with 3 glaciers and an icecap coming right up to it, all overlooking a bay complete with icebergs. Our flight crew flew us around the area just checking stuff out too both arriving and leaving which was awesome.

Majority of the base is Danish and Greenlandic contractors (approx 600) with 140 blue-suiters handling mainly the operational stuff (command, early warning radar, etc). After 2 days there we knew everyone on base. Like was said earlier, drinking is essentially the only hobby up there. Luckily the BX has surprisingly decent prices for being within spitting distance of the north pole.

There was a lot of crazy stuff that went on there back in the 60's and 70's that has been forgotten. At one time, there were 10,000 people up there, several fighter and B-52 squadrons, and the Army even had a camp buried in the polar ice cap just north of there. All that is left of most of that is rusting scrapyards and giant UXO areas.

[amcflyboy]

Back from the great white north. Actually a cool base if you spend the right amount of time there (i.e. anything less then 2 weeks). As much fun as it all was, I can see how being there in the dead of winter, in -40 temps with 130 knot winds minus any sunlight would suck hard. The entire places looks like the surface of Mars with 3 glaciers and an icecap coming right up to it, all overlooking a bay complete with icebergs. Our flight crew flew us around the area just checking stuff out too both arriving and leaving which was awesome.

Majority of the base is Danish and Greenlandic contractors (approx 600) with 140 blue-suiters handling mainly the operational stuff (command, early warning radar, etc). After 2 days there we knew everyone on base. Like was said earlier, drinking is essentially the only hobby up there. Luckily the BX has surprisingly decent prices for being within spitting distance of the north pole.

There was a lot of crazy stuff that went on there back in the 60's and 70's that has been forgotten. At one time, there were 10,000 people up there, several fighter and B-52 squadrons, and the Army even had a camp buried in the polar ice cap just north of there. All that is left of most of that is rusting scrapyards and giant UXO areas.

Yup, that sounds about right!