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Parents whose Sailors are stationed at FT. Meade
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Site for parents who might have sailors stationed on Ft. Meade
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Latest Activity: Jul 9, 2020
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Comment by momoffour(Ship 11 div 119) on March 5, 2011 at 6:14pm
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Now my son is dying to know what the name of the chicken place is lol, he tried to look it up but could not find the name of it!
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Comment by MauiKumu on February 22, 2011 at 3:07pm
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Aloha,
Just joined your site and am looking forward to reading and learning from those with experience and reading answers to questions posed. My son just PIR 2/18/11 and is headed to Ft. Meade tomorrow.
Kumu
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Comment by sarahw1961 on February 16, 2011 at 7:39pm
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On the cell phone thing - there are absolutely no cells phones allowed driving through the gate - even hands free! My son has to hang up - get through the gate & call back....
The care package with maps - things to do - etc is a great idea! That would be a tremendous help to someone new coming in. There is a wonderful fried chicken place up there (I'll have to get the name) - they make the chicken - put it in a plastic bucket (to go) & dump tons of honey on it! Along with the biscuits. At 1st I thought YUCK - but one bite was all it took to get me hooked. Just wish we had one down here!
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Comment by Kac46047 on February 14, 2011 at 11:58am
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okay all the stress over the hotel and area is over. I had an awesome weekend in MD. I stayed at the Sheraton, it was about 20 mins away from FT meade and right accross the street from the Mall (not that my sailor cared much about that lol.) I highly recomend the hotel it was right in the middle of everything lots of restraunts to pick from and not to far from any attractions. We even went bowling and found an arcade. Like Debbie said most of the area is fine just bits around forte meade were a little shady but all in all a very positive experience
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Thanks Debbie and clockard , i warned my boyfriend of the area and he said he will look into everything and keep me in a safe place. He didn't know it was a bad area either. Im not to thrilled with staying in the hotel by myself at night but i have faith in him. ill let everyone know how the hotel is and the area, ill be there on friday =].
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clockard, is the area surrounding fort meade not the safest? i wasn't aware i looked into a few hotels mainly the comfort inn and knights inn because they were fairly low priced. they are in the silver spring college park area? The rest of the airports are near the baltimore airport. and i did find out the army has a hotel on base my sailor will be looking into that as it would be easier to stay there then having to driving to pick him up and drop him off, as he is in A school and cant stay out the weekend yet.
I feel like im blind going into this cause he has about as much info as i do lol. I will let everyone know about the hotel once i actually get there this weekend
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hey does anyone know of cheap hotels in the area? is there a navy lodge equivalent on the base?
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6 months i believe
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oooo forgot He will be there in 2 weeks!
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Hey I just got word that my boyfriend is heading to Ft Meade for Mass Communications! Im jsut excited because its not that far from my house so after he's been there some time i can start visiting. I hear nothing but good things about this base
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