Conveniently located in the middle of nowhere -- halfway to hell, if you ask most Marines -- Twentynine Palms is possibly the worst place on earth to get stationed.
For your perusal, here's a map of the base's location, and here's a picture I took last summer on the base's boundary fence.
Yep, pretty desolate -- but I have the feeling it looks pretty good after you've actually been to Iraq where, after summer temperatures of 120+ degrees, the mere 100+ temps of Twentynine Palms probably feel refreshing.
(Last year I spent a month in the region while researching a novel.)
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