I was born on one and lived on them until my dad retired when I was 14.
A great place to be a kid.
Agree wholeheartedly. Of course, I didn't know it at the time lol.
My family sometimes live on the base, sometimes didn't depending on the availability of housing. When we did, my sister and I had what I can now see was an amazing amount of freedom. We could get on the buses that came to the residential areas and go to the pool in the summer, the theater, the library. My mother did not worry about where we were or who we were with.
I guess she felt like an area that had armed guards with trained attack dogs patrolling the perimeter was pretty safe.