"Michael A. Terrell" wrote

At Ft. Greely, I could ride the shuttle bus into Fairbanks any
weekday that I wasn't on duty. It was 105 miles, one way for a
couple
hours in the 'big city', but it was away from the base and you could
get
a pizza.

They must have sited some of their bases where nothing will grow out
of the ground except painted rocks.