Snow removal at Keflavik airport

[jjguz123]

drank alot there shit whole it sucked froze my ass off will never forget that place

[kaa3164]

Ofcourse the stay sucked.

Look around your house, you see trees, tall buildings and hills.

Wind, shitty weather and cold that hasn't even been slightly dampened flow smoothly through Icelandic nature.

You know the mossy rock that was the only thing you could see for miles in all directions. Shit weather is the only thing a man with a healthy mind can expect.

But ofcourse you don't have healthy minds and this is the internet.

Now come back in summer and stop being stereotypical americans.

[sarge7934]

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doddsalfa .......The greatest day in Iceland history was when I left......They are/were called "Mojacks" for a reason

[nugjoh14]

NAS Keflavik USMC 1975-76; Oooo-rah. It was great.

[sigurbjornjonsson]

@nugjoh14 haha yes, long live the marines. That platoon was actually decommissioned before the station was shut down. I think around 2002 or something. Not quite sure though.

[XxXTHUNDERBASSXxX]

þú lifandi í keflavik til við öxl hitta upp eða eitthvað

[sarge7934]

Armpit of the world-Stationed there 1958-59 w/US Army. Miserable country - miserable people. Worst tour of my 21 year career.

Just my learned opinion - your mileage may differ

[sigurbjornjonsson]

@sarge7934

During those years yes, Iceland was probably a hell hole for many people that came from large American cities or towns that had everything to offer. It was a very simple country and just recently recovering from the depression. Iceland now is a compleatly different country. You should visit sometimes. Dont worry about the volcano, it has stopped and never posed any danger to the people.

[doddsalfa]

@sarge7934 the closing of the usa air force base was one of the greatest day in Iceland history.

[tk1st]

Yes it does bring back many memories, I was stationed there in 83-84,the cold, the snow and the

WIND!! even though I still had a great time. from

there it was off to Fairbanks Ak. where it was much colder Then I also worked at Cleveland

Hopkins airport for several years

[tdudley1984]

Yeah I work at cleveland hopkins international airport and use the same broom attachment but with a different tractor.

[rhblakeman]

I was there Dec 80 to Dec 82 - have done snow removal with a 58 Oshkosh rollover (probably one of those pictured) and W14 front end loaders, graders, etc. Too cold to drop salt so you scrape off what you can and spread ground lava grit on top of it. Was tons of fun getting up the hill on base from the Birch housing to the top by the old commissary and enlisted club. The snow pictured here is actually light compared to some I've seen up there.

[outpapa]

The landscape looks so beautiful, I wish I am there.

[Berrypoison]

I miss Iceland...I had to time of my life there

[rhblakeman]

I can tell you were there recently before the closure - in 80-82 it was rough even on base. Commissary was from the 50's, Navy Exchange was a wood and tin shack and the pool enclosure blew apart every winter from the winds. Gas was 80 octane military "mogas" (leaded then) and cost $1.50 gal when it was 70 cents stateside. The air terminal was a wood shack with an enclosed ramp you walked from the plane to up to customs. Keflavik was pretty quite then.

[bigbirdgirl03]

outstanding...

brought back memories of when I was there...