Best Army Duty Station

[nrryan]

I will be ranking my choices for my first duty station soon and I am looking for some advice on which locations you all have enjoyed and why! The possible locations are the following:

BAMC (TX)

WRNMMC (MD)

MAMC (WA)

CRDAMC (TX)

DDEAMC (GA)

LRMC (Germany)

TAMC (HI)

WAMC (NC)

WBAMC (TX)

Any experience with these locations or advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

If I could pick any of those, I would take Landstuhl — I was never stationed there as an Army nurse, but I grew up there as a military brat. :) Any MEDCEN will provide you with an excellent and varied beginning, truly. SAMMC (San Antonio) is also fabulous. I commissioned as an experienced ER nurse, so I had smaller hospitals as my choices. I know people who have loved DDEAMC (Ft. Gordon) as new nurses.

[Ladybug993]

Crazy thing we were only stationed at two bases ft Riley and camp lejeune.. My husband just recently retired .. But a base I wish we were probably would be ft hood

[jeckrn, BSN, RN]

It all depends on what you want. Fort Polk is a good example. If you love a rural country life it's great but if you are a city person than Ft Sam or Walter Reed, dry desert area Ft Hood, Carson etc. Where you will be working also makes a difference. Right now at Ft Bragg I Am on second call 1-4 times a month and rarely get called in. But if I was at West Point I would be on call around 50% plus in the OR.

[Dranger]

Germany gets old IMO, the travel is great but after 6-8 months you will get bored.

IMO, Carson, Sam Houston, Lewis and Richardson are the best posts. Hawaii is overrated.

[Jlwysong]

I was stationed at DDEAMC for 8 years. I was involved in the move from the old WWII hospital to the then new med cen. Augusta is a great town. Ft Gordon is a beautiful post. You will be only 2 hrs from the beaches or Atlanta. I then worked as a civilian RN at WRAMC before it merged with Bethesda and worked at Bethesda before the merge when the NICUs were combined. It is s great hospital, but as a new RN I would find it a little overwhelming. You also have to adjust to a busy metropolitan area and traffic around the hospital can be horrendous. My choice would be DDEAMC. I was a new grad when I first got there.