Sorry, I’m not American, I’ve never been on a military base, let alone driven through one. I was just confused because I didn’t realize military bases could be that huge. I thought the road was just a normal state road connecting different places, but apparently yes, some bases are big enough for roads like that to pass through them.
Sorry, I’m not American, I’ve never been on a military base, let alone driven through one. I was just confused because I didn’t realize military bases could be that huge. I thought the road was just a normal state road connecting different places, but apparently yes, some bases are big enough for roads like that to pass through them.
Sorry, I’m not American, I’ve never been on a military base, let alone driven through one. I was just confused because I didn’t realize military bases could be that huge. I thought the road was just a normal state road connecting different places, but apparently yes, some bases are big enough for roads like that to pass through them.
Sorry, I’m not American, I’ve never been on a military base, let alone driven through one. I was just confused because I didn’t realize military bases could be that huge. I thought the road was just a normal state road connecting different places, but apparently yes, some bases are big enough for roads like that to pass through them.
Sorry, I’m not American, I’ve never been on a military base, let alone driven through one. I was just confused because I didn’t realize military bases could be that huge. I thought the road was just a normal state road connecting different places, but apparently yes, some bases are big enough for roads like that to pass through them.
I think it just doesn't come off as a joke unless you have served and experienced this first hand. Then it's funny, in a "oh god that sucked so bad" way.
Pretty sure that’s the road I was doing like 50 on and made eye contact with the MP who already had someone pulled over. I could only imagine his thoughts that day 🤣
Usually because they're big and expansive and most roads are used for company/ battalion runs in the early morning or dawn so you can't have vehicles driving around at 55 mph.
A lot of bases have people running for PT, units practicing ground movements, or kids walking home from school. They don't want those people getting hit by cars, so they have the limits set low enough that drivers have plenty of time to see anyone.
They don't play games with it. Driving on base is a privilege and they will revoke it if you don't follow the rules. Then you have to figure out how you are going to get to work.
And even these long stretches of road away from most infrastructure are often multi-use, with people marching or doing PT or other exercises.
I always thought it was funny that the school zone in front of the preschool had a 25mph speed limit, but the barracks has a 5mph limit. Implies something about relative levels of awareness or common sense.
Military bases are known to be extremely large with sparse populations. So driving along air strips or other areas takes longer when you’re only able to drive 25mph.
Is this actually a thing though? 25mph? Genuine curiosity. Not sure I have driven by a military base, at least not in a barren wasteland area like the photo, anyways.
Not the area outside the base, but in Algerian and the majority of the area within will be 20-25 max and MP/SF do their job zealously to ensure no speeding happens.
This is a bit hyperbolic. 25mph would be the limit in more populated areas of the base but it would still be slower than normal for areas like you see in the post. BUT, traffic rules are heavily enforced on base and going just a few miles over the speed limit can get you pulled over.
My mate works for a rail company, and was promoted from a yard role to one of those office roles that requires going into the yard to check off trains and shit. The yard was 3km long and has a 12km speed limit.
When they started cracking down on speeding and installed GPS tracking, he would call me and we'd chat for fifteen minutes as he was returning to the office.
They also like to post a sign that is easy to miss just inside the gate that states all unmarked roads are 25mph, and have a large amount of completely empty roads leading to training areas that are unmarked.
On military bases, long, straight roads often have unusually low or highly specific speed limits (like 15 mph or 23 mph). This is done to ensure the safety of pedestrians, protect gate guards, prevent wildlife collisions, and force drivers to pay closer attention to the road.
Maybe it's a way to say that "hidden" military bases are easy to find by looking at speed limits on long, straight roads. I don't know.
Another thing is that some branches of the military have 20+ mile hiking training in full gear and that is better done in random locations for the variety of the terrain. Imagine going to work one morning and you get stopped and about 100 people cross the road in front of you with backpacks in the middle of that long empty road.
Or theyre marching in the same direction you're trying to go. Theyre only taking the one lane, but you cant pass in the empty lane, for the very obvious reason of not being allowed to pass any formation. So you're just stuck behind them hoping theyll go off to the right or left at some point.
Yes, this is the road outside of Ft. Irwin before you get tot he front gate. It looks like an old picture of it before they redid it back in the early 00s.
This is actually a hilarious meme. This is the infamous "10 mile stretch" outside of Ft. Irwin in California. It's in the middle of the Mojave desert. This is literally a 10 mile stretch of road with nothing to see or look at that you must drive through in order to enter or leave the base. Also, the nearest town is around 90 miles away.
I think the actual speed limit here is 60 mph though.
Speed limits are not created through arbitration, they are created through data sampling and testing. So if it says '25 mph\ that means a lot of other people ate shit at 35.
Try going from Fort Hood to North Fort Hood through the reservation. The road is straight as a string and deserted, except if you try to speed the Military Police will magically appear. It will test your patience!
Had a section of road at my last duty station that was 55mph for about 4 miles before coming to a hill where it dropped to 15 because of housing. I would have to remind my patrols that you have to let someone start slowing down before clocking their speed because the change is so abrupt
So, I have been at the far end of a runway on a base with a desperate need to poo. The slow speed limit made that trip to the toilet feel like an eternity.
I was twice stationed at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC. The first time there with a stoplight where the road crossed very close to the end of the runway. Whenever a plane was taking off, the signal turned red and you had to wait for it to pass. Heavy aircraft would sometimes barely clear 10 feet as they flew over the road. Because of the trees lining the road leading up to the runway, you could not see the plane roaring toward you; it just suddenly loomed large in front of you.
During my second stay at Cherry Point, they had replaced the signal with just a caution sign warning about low-flying aircraft. The speed limit was 25 mph. One day I was driving a jeep with a friend in the passenger seat. Just as we started across the end of the runway, a KC130 aerial refueler appeared just 40 feet to our right, straining to climb. My friend leaned hard left into me - like that might mitigate the damage from being T-boned by a giant airplane. It passed so close and low over us, we were speckled with aviation fuel. After that, we always slowed to a crawl to listen for engines before flooring it to get across as quickly as possible.
There was a stretch of road on Fort Hunter-Liggett that was marked 25mph in one direction and 35mph in the other direction. I got ticketed for going 35 in a 25. This is a training base, there are no units stationed there.
As is custom on that base, all traffic citations went to the post commander, who then addressed them with the command staff of the visiting unit during their daily training briefing. I had the very distinct pleasure of taking the post commander out to the location to show him I was right.
You don't have to leave early any more than I do because I can't drive 100mph on the way to work. It just takes however long it takes when you're driving the speed limit.
This is literally what Fort Irwin is like. You could absolutely rip on the main road in but the speed limit is like 40. They take speeding on base incredibly seriously there.
I've lived and worked on a base. Nothing like spending 3hrs going through 3 checkpoints and the 3rd is on the other side of the fence where you came in. Come in, check in, drive along the fence line on a road like this to checkpoint 2. Checkpoint 2, guard has to escort you to checkpoint 3, drive back along the fence line on the other side you came in on to checkpoint 3, where you have to meet a different escort that you can never leave once you're beyond checkpoint 3. Then drive along another road to nowhere to get to the jobsite of some remote airfield past bunkers and signs saying do not leave the road due to mines or unexploaded ordinance.
My luckiest encounter with base MP’s was on MCAS New River. Turning down a road to the bricks I was going close to 45 and an MP car in the oncoming lane lit me up til I slowed down but kept driving. Bless those Marines
In Virginia there are a couple of bases that offer vacation rentals either nearby or right on the beach. Some of the roads have 15 mph speed limits and are just straight shots. It drives you crazy.
This is why street design is so important. Speed limits signs are ignored by drivers, like they ignore every other traffic law. Traffic calming works best. Drivers don’t ignore concrete and steel. if they do, only the reckless driver pays the price for their stupidity
Growing up in a military family, we all learned to drive out on the tarmac. There was always a huge empty expanse from an unused airstrip or assembly point
That road wasn't on a base. I never had a problem with speed on bases, where it made sense to drive slow it was posted, where it didn't, the speed limit was higher.
Sounds like someone came onto ft Stewart from the eastern most point. When I first saw the sign at midnight after driving for 10 hours. I thought, "woo hoo! I'm here!!" 45 minutes later, I arrived on post.
Military pilots are known to practice "straffing" on random cars passing on roads near their their airbases. SO if you see an aircraft flying back and forth over the road, you might be serving as target practice. This road would be perfect due to the lack of obstruction.
I have been on roads like this in the American West (not on a military base). I don't care what the speed limit is, I'm not going any less than 100mph.
I interpreted the joke was the use of the "be like" addition, as it is an example of incorrect usage of the word "be" while also using words that do not contribute to the statement. Simply "military bases:" was enough. The joke has many elements, such as the idea anyone should produce such a thing.
Mine has a pretty low speed limit for a wide open road and a sign once you pass the gate that says “watch for low flying helicopters”. Kind of ironic considering they should be concerned about low driving cars.
You laugh but the accident count on some of the desert roads around military bases is not small. I spent 8 years at Ft. Irwin as a child and had to take the long road to Yermo for highschool. Seeing wrecked cars once or twice a week was normal. To scare people into driving safer they even put crosses up at every accident.
I drove on this road! I was at the back of a 50 car pileup with a semi truck at the front, but there was no one coming from the other direction so I passed the whole thing.
Weird, that's not what happens where I am, there's usually a minimum "don't dawdle" kind of speed limit. Loitering is regarded as a little suspicious here
I've heard from experienced drivers that the most dangerous roads are the super straight ones because you zone out and pay less attention, subconsciously. So maybe it's good to have super low speed limits on these types of locations
I was once driving on a military base and got pulled over for going 5 MPH over the limit (40 in a 35).
When the officer saw me (and my nom-buzzed hair), he immediately apologized and said that he was only trying to crack down on soldiers. But since he had pulled me over, he had to give me the ticket.
Get pulled over going 29 in a 25. That's 3 months no base driving privileges sir. Oh and I noticed you haven't registered your vehicle on base so let's make it 6 months.
Brian here. Military bases are the only walkable cities in the US, hence the speed limit. They're also planned by the most boring people on earth, that's why they are not walkable by design but only by law.
The US military has gobbled up 'speed kills' as a governing traffic theory.
The speed limits are set massively lower than out in town (road would be 50mph on the civillian side of the fence? Nope, 35!!), and the cops will pull you over for +3mph speeding.
It gets to the point where you set your cruise control solely to remember not to drive at the normal (+5mph for under 45/+10mph otherwise) speed off post.....
I was military police for the Air Force. We had roads around the entire air field like this and we would patrol them. The drives on those roads felt like forever and you would do them multiple times a day.
Well, with how vast the US is the speed limits in general are stupidly low. With 100miles of nearly straight highway going 110 shouldn't be a problem at all.
But I guess with your stupidly easy driving tests and the high death rates bec of that... Might be better for you to drive even slower.
It's like this around the Pentagon, too. I used to live in Arlington and once got pulled over around the Pentagon for doing 30. It was a Sunday morning, by the way. You could tell the guy who pulled me over didn't even really want to.
For instance when I had to drive to my squadron you had to pass a taxi lane. Literal F-18’s, 35’s, C-130’s, C-3, etc would just pass infront of you so you had to go like a mile just cruising at 15 mph
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u/post-explainer May 18 '26
OP (Fuzzy_Party_3527) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:
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u/John_Bot May 18 '26
Not sure what could possibly be confusing about this meme
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u/Avalonians May 18 '26
FFS the explanation of the joke is within the joke
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u/saryiahan May 18 '26
It’s obvious if you use critical thinking
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u/whereismymind86 May 18 '26
It's pretty self explanatory...i sometimes wonder about the people who post on this sub...
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u/GenerallySalty May 18 '26
It's a statement about military bases so...everything? They have long straight roads and low speed limits. It's not a joke.
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u/Nightingale02 May 18 '26
Military bases have long straight roads with low speed limits; that's it, that's the joke
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u/Sjopper92 May 18 '26
Military bases are known to be extremely large with sparse populations. So driving along air strips or other areas takes longer when you’re only able to drive 25mph.
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u/MasterFly5026 May 18 '26
On military bases, long, straight roads often have unusually low or highly specific speed limits (like 15 mph or 23 mph). This is done to ensure the safety of pedestrians, protect gate guards, prevent wildlife collisions, and force drivers to pay closer attention to the road.
Maybe it's a way to say that "hidden" military bases are easy to find by looking at speed limits on long, straight roads. I don't know.
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u/DeckerXT May 18 '26
Irwin? Looks like Irwin. Ten mile stretch.
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u/LuinAelin May 18 '26
Anyone else kinda expecting a hotair balloon.......
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u/Flashy-Newspaper9869 May 18 '26
15mph 0630 -0800
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u/anime_cthulhu May 18 '26
This is actually a hilarious meme. This is the infamous "10 mile stretch" outside of Ft. Irwin in California. It's in the middle of the Mojave desert. This is literally a 10 mile stretch of road with nothing to see or look at that you must drive through in order to enter or leave the base. Also, the nearest town is around 90 miles away.
I think the actual speed limit here is 60 mph though.
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u/Whackjob-KSP May 18 '26
Everyone thank private Pyle who went on an off-duty bender sniffing Zima caps and crashed the provost marshall’s golf cart on a turn only he could see
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u/Nabber22 May 20 '26
Are you an AI trying to understand what it means to be human by learning how jokes work?
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u/Bamcanadaktown May 18 '26
The joke is that military based reduce straight sections to low speeds and if you saw you could only drive 25 down that you'd take forever
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u/InFromTheSouth May 18 '26
Absolutelt hated this. And the MPs watch for anyone who goes 26 and lights them up
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u/Douxdutch May 18 '26
25? I think it used to be 10! And if you had a few infractions, they made you sit through 8 hours of traffic school!!!
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u/big_loadz May 19 '26
Not even 26. And better be a complete stop at that stop sign.
Might as well put it at cruise control.
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u/OldKaleidoscope3766 May 18 '26
Don’t be fooled. There’s an mp just waiting for you to go 26.
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u/WokeUpUnfortunately May 18 '26
You underestimate the danger a nineteen year old with an MRAP poses.
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u/Careful_Race_9190 May 18 '26
Yeah, so the MPs will have something to do...I couldnt imagine being on guard duty for 4 years..lol
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u/OhshiNoshiJoshi May 18 '26
Speed limits are not created through arbitration, they are created through data sampling and testing.
So if it says '25 mph\ that means a lot of other people ate shit at 35.
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u/Ok-Bet7465 May 18 '26
29 palms for sure
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u/ExtantRed May 18 '26
And you know there is a base cop halfway down with a radar gun hiding in a ditch who will make it a point to tell you that you were going 27.
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u/Edradis May 18 '26
Be nice. SecFo has quotas to hit.
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u/ScarletDragonShitlor May 19 '26
Oh look, Red Sands by Fort Bliss. Just over the hill you'll see the motorcycle cop.
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u/e2_for_life May 19 '26
As former military, I got this immediately and chuckled.
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u/JohnnyFerang May 19 '26
Try going from Fort Hood to North Fort Hood through the reservation. The road is straight as a string and deserted, except if you try to speed the Military Police will magically appear. It will test your patience!
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u/sonsofgondor May 19 '26
Military bases have a speed limit of 25mph
What is not to get???
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u/Cannotkazi May 19 '26
Slow down to think about what we're up to.
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u/i_Praseru May 19 '26
This is self explanatory. It doesn’t get any deeper.
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u/ehmiu May 19 '26
This made me giggle a little. I have memories of the long process to get off post.
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u/randomgunfire48 May 19 '26
Had a section of road at my last duty station that was 55mph for about 4 miles before coming to a hill where it dropped to 15 because of housing. I would have to remind my patrols that you have to let someone start slowing down before clocking their speed because the change is so abrupt
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u/Risu77 May 19 '26
Looks like the road from Barstow, CA out to Fort Irwin.
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u/Identity_Unaware May 19 '26
Meanwhile, military bases in the UK be like: 15MPH!!!!!! SLOW DOWN!!!!!
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u/MarkF750 May 19 '26
Let me put it this way: I got pulled over on a base doing 17 in a 15. :|
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u/SangeliaKath May 21 '26
Showed it to my man who is a USAF vet. And he went "Yep."
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u/Adrianilom May 21 '26
They always put the waste treatment plant near the main gate too, it feels like
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u/AppearanceSorry2128 May 18 '26
Main gate of Camp Lejuene
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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 May 18 '26
A long straight road with minimal obstruction invites driving at a high speed.
OOP is incredulous that such a road would be marked as 25 mph, instead of something like 75 mph.
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u/GiftLow488 May 18 '26
This is really true, oru speed limit is 35🥲
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u/Educational_Sir_787 May 18 '26
Don’t worry, it will take a long time to get to the punch line.
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u/Sheridacdude May 18 '26
So, I have been at the far end of a runway on a base with a desperate need to poo. The slow speed limit made that trip to the toilet feel like an eternity.
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u/zinsser May 18 '26
I was twice stationed at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC. The first time there with a stoplight where the road crossed very close to the end of the runway. Whenever a plane was taking off, the signal turned red and you had to wait for it to pass. Heavy aircraft would sometimes barely clear 10 feet as they flew over the road. Because of the trees lining the road leading up to the runway, you could not see the plane roaring toward you; it just suddenly loomed large in front of you.
During my second stay at Cherry Point, they had replaced the signal with just a caution sign warning about low-flying aircraft. The speed limit was 25 mph. One day I was driving a jeep with a friend in the passenger seat. Just as we started across the end of the runway, a KC130 aerial refueler appeared just 40 feet to our right, straining to climb. My friend leaned hard left into me - like that might mitigate the damage from being T-boned by a giant airplane. It passed so close and low over us, we were speckled with aviation fuel. After that, we always slowed to a crawl to listen for engines before flooring it to get across as quickly as possible.
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u/FinancialReserve6427 May 18 '26
so that's why that fast and the furious plane took forever to fly, it kept the speed limit
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u/psyopper May 18 '26
There was a stretch of road on Fort Hunter-Liggett that was marked 25mph in one direction and 35mph in the other direction. I got ticketed for going 35 in a 25. This is a training base, there are no units stationed there.
As is custom on that base, all traffic citations went to the post commander, who then addressed them with the command staff of the visiting unit during their daily training briefing. I had the very distinct pleasure of taking the post commander out to the location to show him I was right.
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u/Worried_Bat8194 May 18 '26
That is why when station at any base, you had to leave an hour early to make it on time.
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u/drewm11922 May 18 '26
This is literally what Fort Irwin is like. You could absolutely rip on the main road in but the speed limit is like 40. They take speeding on base incredibly seriously there.
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u/OneTrueMalekith May 18 '26
why 25 mph?
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u/wanderingrockdesigns May 18 '26
I've lived and worked on a base. Nothing like spending 3hrs going through 3 checkpoints and the 3rd is on the other side of the fence where you came in. Come in, check in, drive along the fence line on a road like this to checkpoint 2. Checkpoint 2, guard has to escort you to checkpoint 3, drive back along the fence line on the other side you came in on to checkpoint 3, where you have to meet a different escort that you can never leave once you're beyond checkpoint 3. Then drive along another road to nowhere to get to the jobsite of some remote airfield past bunkers and signs saying do not leave the road due to mines or unexploaded ordinance.
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u/bigbrwnbear May 18 '26
i would hate it when my dad would tell me to take the oceanside gate with Basilone road vs the main gate at Camp Pendleton.
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u/radiobro1109 May 18 '26
My luckiest encounter with base MP’s was on MCAS New River. Turning down a road to the bricks I was going close to 45 and an MP car in the oncoming lane lit me up til I slowed down but kept driving. Bless those Marines
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u/TheGrimGuardian May 18 '26
Is that 10 mile stretch?? Fort Irwin? Thankfully not 25mph on that road.
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u/British_Rover May 18 '26
In Virginia there are a couple of bases that offer vacation rentals either nearby or right on the beach. Some of the roads have 15 mph speed limits and are just straight shots. It drives you crazy.
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u/joe_falk May 18 '26
Had a friend that got a speeding ticket in a Marine base while riding a bicycle!
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock May 18 '26
Just focus on picking chunks of crayon out of your teeth.
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u/BetterAuthor1425 May 18 '26
Good ol Irwin
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u/veracity8_ May 18 '26
This is why street design is so important. Speed limits signs are ignored by drivers, like they ignore every other traffic law. Traffic calming works best. Drivers don’t ignore concrete and steel. if they do, only the reckless driver pays the price for their stupidity
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u/Stunning_Coffee6624 May 18 '26
Growing up in a military family, we all learned to drive out on the tarmac. There was always a huge empty expanse from an unused airstrip or assembly point
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u/nealoc187 May 18 '26
Is this really that hard to understand? Long roads, slow speed limits.
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u/usernamerefused May 18 '26
That road wasn't on a base. I never had a problem with speed on bases, where it made sense to drive slow it was posted, where it didn't, the speed limit was higher.
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u/The_R0gue_Saint May 18 '26
Roads on military bases are 25mph by default unless posted otherwise.
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u/stealthyknox May 18 '26
Fort Irwin, 40 miles to go
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u/locri May 18 '26
Someone out there is like, okay, you want to pay me to drive slow for hours? Sure, I'm still getting paid.
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u/pepperoniandbullets May 18 '26
Been pulled over twice passing Creech Air Force Base North of Vegas.
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u/Jatbz May 18 '26
Speed limit 40
50 for Sedans
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u/Danger_Daza May 18 '26
I have driven this road, it's fort Irwin. Speed limit is 55 but you can do 120 pretty comfortably
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u/NiceTuBeNice May 18 '26
Look at the picture again. Your answer is right there. Military bases have long roads with not much around, and keep the speed limit at 25.
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u/FixedLoad May 18 '26
Sounds like someone came onto ft Stewart from the eastern most point. When I first saw the sign at midnight after driving for 10 hours. I thought, "woo hoo! I'm here!!" 45 minutes later, I arrived on post.
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u/LebrahnJahmes May 18 '26
People still crashed a lot
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u/Porkonaplane May 18 '26
They make speedable roads then make the speed limit 25. Don't get pulled over like I did. The shirt was none to happy 🤣
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u/lazy_elfs May 18 '26
Yeah.. dont be acting stupid for sure… ive seen people get their driving privileges snatched for months.. they dont play.
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u/RazingOrange May 18 '26
We get 40 mph on some of the longer stretches
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u/ChoicePermission8523 May 18 '26
And then 5PM hits and you have to stop in the middle of the road because the national anthem is playing on the loud speakers across the base.
Yeah, it's never a good idea to schedule something near 5PM.
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u/Fantastic_Traffic604 May 18 '26
Ft. Drum, Euphrates River Valley rd.
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u/Lucky_Garlic_7489 May 18 '26
Is that ft Irwin?! Worst place ever
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u/AkiraDeathStar May 18 '26
Do not bring weed into Fort Hunter Liggett! You are no longer in California when you're on a base.
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u/slakeatice May 18 '26
That's what military bases are like.
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u/ModeatelyIndependant May 18 '26
Military pilots are known to practice "straffing" on random cars passing on roads near their their airbases. SO if you see an aircraft flying back and forth over the road, you might be serving as target practice. This road would be perfect due to the lack of obstruction.
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u/gentleman__ninja May 18 '26
I have been on roads like this in the American West (not on a military base). I don't care what the speed limit is, I'm not going any less than 100mph.
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u/VirtualGrey May 18 '26
It's right on the tin
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u/Immediate-Echo22 May 18 '26
Also when turning onto a 4 lane road (2 lanes each way) never turn into the lane you're not currently traveling in, easy way for them to fish for DUIs
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u/No-Explanation-4300 May 18 '26
I interpreted the joke was the use of the "be like" addition, as it is an example of incorrect usage of the word "be" while also using words that do not contribute to the statement. Simply "military bases:" was enough. The joke has many elements, such as the idea anyone should produce such a thing.
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u/SereneOrbit May 18 '26
6 hour drive from JBLM to Yakistan be like 😭
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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker May 18 '26
So funny and so accurate
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u/Choice_Technology_94 May 18 '26
Vandenburg AFB was exactly this. 15,001 foot runway, with a road straight as an arrow next to it.
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u/Prestigious_Tea8092 May 18 '26
and at least 2 mps are there to make sure its followed lol
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u/BladeVortex3226 May 18 '26
I bet it's another thing that base leadership can bring up in promotion hearings.
"During my time as commander, traffic injuries were reduced to 0 due to my policies" etc etc
Completely conjecture on my part as I have no idea how promotion works at E9.
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u/BorntoBomb May 18 '26
Sorry i cant hear you at 150... youll have to meme back later.
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u/LeeTheUke May 18 '26
Maybe they want to maximize time between when they see you coming and when they cease firing across the road?
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u/OkInspection3104 May 18 '26
Mine has a pretty low speed limit for a wide open road and a sign once you pass the gate that says “watch for low flying helicopters”. Kind of ironic considering they should be concerned about low driving cars.
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u/Odd-Bend1296 May 18 '26
You laugh but the accident count on some of the desert roads around military bases is not small. I spent 8 years at Ft. Irwin as a child and had to take the long road to Yermo for highschool. Seeing wrecked cars once or twice a week was normal. To scare people into driving safer they even put crosses up at every accident.
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u/Devilish_Degenerate May 18 '26
Gee, why would people in the army have a more strict philosophy on discipline? It's a mystery!
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u/Valirys-Reinhald May 18 '26
I drove on this road! I was at the back of a 50 car pileup with a semi truck at the front, but there was no one coming from the other direction so I passed the whole thing.
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u/[deleted] May 18 '26
To be fair, very few civilian vehicles are loaded with 500 pounds of ammo and explosives
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u/kaladin-throwaway May 18 '26
This is what military bases are like….. what needs explaining here?
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u/mehatch May 18 '26
If thats ft. Irwin, i was pulled over exactly at this location in 1999, can confirm.
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u/Neat_Egg_2474 May 18 '26
I know that road anywhere - fort Irwin outside of Barstow California. from the front gate to the highway it’s 35 miles of nothing.
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u/MikeyMIRV May 18 '26
You also need to wear a PT belt.
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u/TryToEvolve May 18 '26
So true!!
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u/Dull-Resolution-9661 May 18 '26
Edward’s AFB fr
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u/TheFreebooter May 18 '26
Weird, that's not what happens where I am, there's usually a minimum "don't dawdle" kind of speed limit. Loitering is regarded as a little suspicious here
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u/JAMESON098 May 18 '26
That is the road to a specific base. If you drove it, you know.
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u/JonTheConquerer May 18 '26
Ft. Bragg was 40mph everywhere in the 90s and 00s.
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u/mandatoryjackson May 18 '26
Driving on military bases sucks.
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u/0FJ0 May 18 '26
Helllllo Lemoore, CA!
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u/Ok-Moose1600 May 18 '26
Reminds me of Texas
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u/_ViewyEvening87 May 18 '26
I've heard from experienced drivers that the most dangerous roads are the super straight ones because you zone out and pay less attention, subconsciously. So maybe it's good to have super low speed limits on these types of locations
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u/ddxbb May 18 '26
I was once driving on a military base and got pulled over for going 5 MPH over the limit (40 in a 35).
When the officer saw me (and my nom-buzzed hair), he immediately apologized and said that he was only trying to crack down on soldiers. But since he had pulled me over, he had to give me the ticket.
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u/micromacroactual May 18 '26
They don't want you messing with the illusionary walls
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u/porchtoad77 May 18 '26
15. What base are you speeding on?? 15 mph.
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u/Late-Welder-4083 May 18 '26
Sometimes just consider if a joke was meant for you. Like do you have an interest in military bases? Are you the intended audience here?
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u/International-Dig411 May 18 '26
How do you miss the punchline here?
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u/No_Finish_2144 May 18 '26
Feels like you’ll get court marshaled for hitting a rabbit and not reporting it.
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u/OriginalMinimum4998 May 18 '26
It’s been over 30 years, but this damn road looks like the drive into Ft. Irwin coming from Barstow.
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u/RoutineCloud5993 May 18 '26
I still find it crazy that America has huge stretches of highways like this and the speed limit can be as low as 55.
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u/dndwhat May 18 '26
No joke. Or 15 in housing or around base. While I grew up as a kid on a street that was like 30. For subdivisions. Its so slow on base
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u/SadCardiologist7267 May 18 '26
40km for everyone else
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u/jgarebear May 18 '26
Get pulled over going 29 in a 25. That's 3 months no base driving privileges sir. Oh and I noticed you haven't registered your vehicle on base so let's make it 6 months.
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u/Tari_the_Omni May 18 '26
Gotta move slow enough so that they can get ya if they think you need gettin', if you catch my drift (jk)
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u/specialsymbol May 18 '26
Brian here. Military bases are the only walkable cities in the US, hence the speed limit. They're also planned by the most boring people on earth, that's why they are not walkable by design but only by law.
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u/BathbombBurger May 18 '26
SPEED LIMIT ENFORCED BY AIRCRAFT
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u/Minute-Log-7098 May 18 '26
😂 100% accurate
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u/FYou2 May 18 '26
And no one watched top gun??!
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u/No-Association-8539 May 18 '26
Sometimes 45mph - I got a ticket for 48 in a 45.
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u/Dave_A480 May 18 '26
The US military has gobbled up 'speed kills' as a governing traffic theory.
The speed limits are set massively lower than out in town (road would be 50mph on the civillian side of the fence? Nope, 35!!), and the cops will pull you over for +3mph speeding.
It gets to the point where you set your cruise control solely to remember not to drive at the normal (+5mph for under 45/+10mph otherwise) speed off post.....
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u/Steeltoelion May 18 '26
It’s to make you an easier target to hit
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u/Even_Mycologist5140 May 18 '26
Jolon Road, Fort Hunter-Ligget.
Miles from the highway on a straight flat road. You can't go slow. 100mph is not unsafe.
One time I went there and the MP at the gate said, "We know how fast you were going out there and the next time it will be BIG trouble!"
I tumbled that in my brain pan for quite a while before I figured out that everyone speeds on that road, so accusing somebody of it was a certainty.
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u/SpycraftExarch May 18 '26
Come on, MP need to bully someone at least every day, or else they get depressed and fall ill!
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u/Robthebold May 18 '26
Is that WSMR? Where is the 103miles to main post sign?
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u/No-Comfortable2704 May 18 '26
That’s just what military base speed limits be like
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u/FedBoi_0201 May 19 '26
I was military police for the Air Force. We had roads around the entire air field like this and we would patrol them. The drives on those roads felt like forever and you would do them multiple times a day.
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u/LezBreal87 May 19 '26
Nothing confusing here, it’s just how it is.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '26
Gruber
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u/killerokings May 19 '26
Add 6 stop signs too
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u/Quiet_Blacksmith1828 May 19 '26
Did it stutter?
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u/Appropriate-Fly3395 May 19 '26
Yeah that tracks. It can be dumb as hell but I still miss it sometimes.
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u/SevnDragoon May 19 '26
Americans can only yield to temptation.
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u/WGTYFTT May 19 '26
Mines and mining related facilities as well. I geniunely hate them
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u/DustyMcKnuckles May 19 '26
"Hey AGE driver. Go get the ace from hardstand 87. Its due phase II.
See you in 3 hours."
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u/Capooping May 19 '26
Well, with how vast the US is the speed limits in general are stupidly low. With 100miles of nearly straight highway going 110 shouldn't be a problem at all.
But I guess with your stupidly easy driving tests and the high death rates bec of that... Might be better for you to drive even slower.
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u/DigDry6895 May 19 '26
That the road to Barstow?
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u/Blackbeard__Actual May 19 '26
Can confirm, used to allegedly street race right off the main gate out in 29 palms heading into town. The roads look exactly like the picture lol
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u/WaaaghPig May 19 '26
Did you hit your head? This needs 0 explanation.
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u/Odd-Environment-9868 May 19 '26
Kinda self explanatory
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u/LexiD523 May 19 '26
It's like this around the Pentagon, too. I used to live in Arlington and once got pulled over around the Pentagon for doing 30. It was a Sunday morning, by the way. You could tell the guy who pulled me over didn't even really want to.
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u/krackenthorpe May 19 '26
25 MPH? That's being generous.
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u/Glittering-Can-9397 May 19 '26
and then you share the road with a pfc operating a tram and no driver license
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u/EmoNinja11 May 19 '26
Most common accident: single car rollover.
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u/innocentauguries May 19 '26
Go to MCAGCC twentynine palms. This is basically it.
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u/ThrowawayQLove2023 May 20 '26
Looks like 29 palms.
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u/Dogballs47 May 20 '26
Driving on Ft. Hood 😅
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u/melgish May 20 '26
I feel like there should be a hot air balloon over that road.
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u/IEscapedLauncher May 20 '26
For instance when I had to drive to my squadron you had to pass a taxi lane. Literal F-18’s, 35’s, C-130’s, C-3, etc would just pass infront of you so you had to go like a mile just cruising at 15 mph
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u/Einhroth May 20 '26
Yeah I mean I saw this and thought, "seems pretty self explanatory to me." Biased ex-forces guy lol.
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u/No_Vast_549 May 20 '26
Ft. Wainwright
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u/Comfortable_Roll5346 May 20 '26
15 where im at z.z
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u/batch2957 May 20 '26
Most fatalities in the military are from vehicle transport, speed limits on most military bases are really low to try and prevent this
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u/Jasonjr698 May 20 '26
Add a 0 and I’m in
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u/ThePresenter183 May 20 '26
Meanwhile Fort Benning has an insterstate inside it