I just checked and Dover AFB does have a golf course.
Those are newer additions from when I was a kid in the military living on small AF bases.
Prior to going overseas during the Viet Nam war we were at a very small base with no Officer's Club at all.
So when we went overseas to an AF base with a swimming pool it was like heaven.
A swimming pool and they had soda pop and potato chips!
It didn't get much better than that in our books.
Yes some of the postings were bleak. There was a young captain next door to us on one of the overseas bases
where we lived. He was a pilot flying very dangerous reconnaissance missions over North Viet Nam. When it was time
to go home, he got orders to go to Minot AFB and I remember clearly his wife crying one whole afternoon when she heard this news.
I used to babysit for their young children so I knew them well. I felt very bad for her.
Back when I was young there was no such thing as military family services etc. None of the support services that now exist.
Families were more of a nuisance back then in the eyes of the military.
Families were posted to remote locations far away from family and friends. In some cases overseas there was no military housing available so families lived off base in third world type accommodations. This was especially the case early during the Viet Nam war when there was a surge of military in the Viet Nam area and not enough US military infrastructure to accommodate the families.
The men were typically away all the time so it was just the wives and kids on base, living on their own. Eventually we were posted to an overseas AF base w/ more of a normal life. An O club, base library and base theater. The military was trying to give us a better life and we appreciated it and were much happier.
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