I had a friend who was a civilian DOD employee who was stationed there in the mid 1970’s. He told me all kinds of stories. Back then there was no much to do but by stuff from the PX catalog, gamble and stay warm. He told me about excursions off base in trucks and the polar bears. He took lots of really close pictures of polar bears. He told me a polar bear smelled them out once and came running from a good distance. They had to get in the truck as the polar bear crawled all over it trying to get to them. Finally it got off the truck and they drove away. He was glad to come home when his contract was over. I enjoyed looking at his polar bear pictures.

I was at Thule in 1956 as a new member of the Air Force. Worked in POL. Supported the F-89 aircraft. That was the year they put some of the fuel storage tanks under ground. As I recall there were about 4000 men on the base and only 5 women, one was the Danish Commanders wife and the others were nurses. As a 18 year old that time made me appreciate a lot of things that later helped me coupe with life. The high light of that tour was the 7 days we spent in the barracks, which were built off the ground and fully insulated, due to the 90 degree chill factor outside. Learned how to take 3 minute showers

I spent four days on the Thule Air Base in 1996. I was a civilian guest of the US Air Force attending “Kool School” on the polar ice cap northeast of Thule. A C-130 equipped with skies flew us out of Thule and it landed at Ice Station Ruby for a three day survival mission. Five civilians and 24 military personnel built a survival camp. Three instructors from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska spent two previous days training us in Arctic survival. We had extreme cold weather gear and MRS. When we landed at mid-day it was -55F. A night the temperature dropped to ~ -70F. We built snow/ice shelters into the 8’ thick ice cap for protection. We had no incidents as we planned for success and executed our plans - an awesome experience. To this day, I remain grateful to the Air Force for this rare privilege.

I was a civilian employee 1978 to 1981 at the BMEWS site 13 miles from Thule. We lived on base and were bussed to our 12 shift 6 days a week. Worked 80 hrs a week plus depending if the weather was clear or not. Must have been about 3 thousand employees between USAF and Americans and Danes. Food was great lots of drinking and use of hashish. After 3 years I left with almost 60k $$ saved. And then I went to Antarctica with the same contractor.

They told my dad before he went to Thule that there was a naked girl behind every tree.🤣

“Handful of Canadians” Proceeds to show hundreds of Canadians and only Canadians.

My dad was stationed there in 1957. I have old pictures of him standing on an iceberg.

I was stationed there in 04-05. It was the best experience of my life.

My dad had to deliver a prop to one of his units C130's that got diverted to Thule because of bad weather in Newfoundland Canada, he was a C130 flight engineer stationed in North Carolina. The plane that went there the day before went to start engines the following day and the seal in the prop housing let go and most of the prop fluid poured out on start up. When dad sat in on the mission brief he told the pilots that he wanted to do a hot unload of the prop and extra prop stand, keep all four engines running, he had NOOOOO intentions of staying, breaking, or anything else. When they flew in he said that place was cold, colder then lake front Chicago in January. They taxi towards the hangers and off loaded their plane, all engines running, he seen his friend Phil who was the engineer on the broke C130, dad waved and gave him a big smile, Phil gave him the middle finger, flight engineer love I figure.

I did temporary duty at Thule in both the summer and winter. Summer is OK. Winter is insane. The chow hall is contracted to the Danes. The food was delicious.

Thule AB was constructed in secret under the code name Operation BLUE JAY. Construction for Thule AB began in 1951 and was completed in 1953. The construction of Thule is said to have been comparable in scale to the enormous effort required to build the Panama Canal. The Navy transported the bulk of men, supplies, and equipment from the naval shipyards in Norfolk, VA. On June 6, 1951 an armada of 120 shipments sailed from Norfolk, VA. On board were 12,000 men and 300,000 tons of cargo. They arrived Thule on July 9, 1951. Construction took place around the clock. The workers lived on-board the ship until quarters were built. Once they moved into the quarters, the ships returned home. The base was initially designed as a forward base for staging SAC bombers and tankers. It was designed and built to house 12,000 personnel (during the peak period it housed approximately 10,000 with personnel living at Camp Tuto, BMEWS/J-Site, Camp Century, P-Mountain, in Nike Sites, and at Cape Atholl). It was built with a 10,000-foot (by 200�) runway and a fuel storage capacity of about 100 million gallons (the largest in DOD�built to support mid-air refueling of the B-47 bombers). The agreement set aside 339,000 acres, and when Thule was first built, this is how it looked: main base 2600 acres, 82 miles of road, 38 fuel tanks, 10 hangers (6 are 28,000 sq. feet), 122 barracks, 6 mess halls, a gym, service club, Officers� club, hobby shop, library, base exchange, post office, theater, chapel, and hospital. There were also 63 warehouses, a laundry, a bakery, two primary power plants, and 4 auxiliary power/heating plants.

i just seen the movie greenland im definitely hitting that place up when clark comes🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've been there a couple of times on C-5s. The runway is usually painted white so it doesn't sink into the permafrost. The club there was nice. The climate is very dry and just walking a foot gives you static enough to shock you as well. Great place place to transit.

Any girl getting orders there goes up 7 points on the scale.

Every machine in this video is just a thing of beauty. The C-130s, the F-15s...even the refueling truck.

I salute everyone with the highest level of respect. God bless you all.

I was in Thule., winter time three years in a row back starting in 1982.

I was there 12/85-12/86.The top of the world club got me through it.

Hey man thank you all for what u do to everyone serving in the U.S. military thank you all so much for what you do for our beautiful country!

I was in Thule in 1981 for a 7 week TDY and again in 1982 for another two month stay. Just missed Clint Eastwood who came up to film scenes for Firefox. Anywho, great times for a young guy! Great memories.

Only 947 miles from the north pole? Well hell, let's just walk then.

Your telling me they have gaming and pizza in a military base? Sign me up!

I was stationed there 1970. Did mobile distribution on the base. Was fortunate to have a vehicle. Had to keep it plugged up. Nothing to do but work and stay sane. Really nice to leave there and know I did not have to return.

US Military: Hey we know this place sucks, here's free pizza.

Merry Christmas an Happy New year to everyone at Thule air base. Bless you all.🎅🏻🙏🏼💫👍🏼🎉🎊

The current base was built in 1951. My father was a Knight of the Blue Nose in the 1950's.

My father was stationed here with the Army in 1960-1962. He said it was the coldest place he's ever been!!

Boy, have things changed since I was there from Sept. '67 to Sept. '68. There were about 4,000 U.S. military personnel back then. I can't imagine Thule Air Base with only 150 personnel. It must be like a ghost town compared to the '60s. And I have one quibble: The whole year I was there I never saw one mosquito, or a bug of any kind.

computer voice always gets a down vote.Sorry.

My ship was the icebreaker that came in 4 years ago. What an experience it was being here!

Did a few Op: Boxtop in Thule in the early 00's working as a Sit up in COBWEB for 8ACCS. My first bishop the U.S. And Canadian pilots had unofficially changed my calls with from cobweb to CANDY CANE. It was a play on the movie that was out called joyride. Loved the truly close family mindset everyone had up there. The "TOW" was a place like no other. As well as the rabbits the size of small black bears lol. Was honestly my most favorite USAF base I have been too.

I was at thule during parts of 1966 and 1967. My military job was telephone operator on the grave yard shift. There was 2 of us, and we were fairly busy from midnight til about 1:30AM and then the calls would stop. my coworker and I would split the rest of the shift with one sleeping for half and then we would trade. I also worked at the NCO club during the day and made more there than from the military.

Used to go up there back in the 70s.BRRR!

Visited in the '80s. Crazy cold.

I did a USO tour there in 1968…it was May, so it was 24 hours of daylight!

It's nice to see Santa visiting the troops. I guess they share some air space and have to do join operations.

So thats the place where they make my Thule roof rack :)

Forecasting the weather here would be terrible

The narrator noted (~4min, 30sec) that the 21Space Wing is at "Patterson" AFB, Ohio. It's actually at Peterson AFB, CO

What a change at Thule since I was stationed there in 1970-71

Been there done that, TDY there for 5 Months in 1985. They kept C-Rations in the barracks if it was to cold to walk to the Mess Hall. The days were given a “Code” for the weather. But he was correct on 1 thing, it was Beautiful up there but nothing beat coming back to the “ World”.

4:55 Santa Claus like “the fuck is y’all doing here”

I’d go insane if I was stationed there.

For an American airbase sure looks like it’s more Canadian than American 😁

Thule Airbase is the closest staging area for Operation BoxTop. Canada's long running annual resupply mission to CFS Alert. Thats why you see a sh't ton of RCAF aircraft rotating in and out. It is a continuous 24/7 resupply operation for a month straight. Average Canadians still don't really know what our military does up there as it has never been totally revealed. But you can guess it involves Russian communication interception. Just think of resupplying Antarctica's McMurdo Station but on a smaller scale with aircraft instead of sealift. I think Thule is within Norad's Canadian Identification zone too, not positive though.

Wow, impressive!!!

I was stationed at Thule, and while not all the information in this video was incorrect, much of it was.

‘14-‘15 for me! It was overall, Epic! An amazing experience! I miss that place! 💖

A fellow co-worker of mine who was stationed their as a Marine in the 70s said all aircraft stayed running 24/7 because of the cold

Amazing 😍

Couldn’t get some shots of an American plane?

I was there 05-06, some of the stuff in the video isn’t exactly true, but it was a great assignment.

The place you're stationed when you've pissed someone off.

I was almost stationed here and very excited to go but my wisdom teeth had to be pulled so instead I was stationed in South Dakota. I was supposed to be at thule for a year and then go to the lakenheath RAF. It was the next day after I graduated tech school that they changed my orders.

Thanks for this interesting where things go in the Arctic region? 🤔

My fondest memory of the "half - uh/a - lifetime" spent on "ye olde Bluie"/"Station Nord", supporting our NATO/OTAN commitment, was the "no fraternization/keep it in yer pantz" preemptive arse-chewin we received within 20 minutes of our arrival. That policy was followed up by a second'arse-chewin', this time by the acting "director of nursing" for the base hospital. (as it turned out, we learned early on to "stand back about 500-ft, get a good look at the situation, and act accordingly") Truth be told, I remember feeling like a 'deer in the headlights' upon my arrival, with much of that angst dissipating around the 90th day of my stay. In a nutshell, we each received what we put into it....

The 21st Space Wing is at PETERSON AFB, Colorado Springs!

USAF's most northern military base ... shows exclusively canadian personal and aircraft.

This is where I’m heading when Clark shows up.

Thule was built in 1953 and not 1941!

I was stationed there from 91 to 92.

Considering taking a job up there.

That's a pretty decent computer simulated voice.

Seasonal parties and events? Sign me up! 😃👍🏻

Nice very nice

Probably no shirtless runners in the summer there I would guess.

I worked on the DEWline south of Thule. Flew up there on a C-141 and spent the night there. Next day flew down to Sondrestrom AFB.

My buddy was stationed at Thule as an ATC early 70's said it sucked, sounds better now.

You might call it "Toolie" but I call it "Thool."

It is cold but there is a good looking woman behind every tree!

*1953, Thule airbase. (Northern most airbase) Only southern Greenland defence established 1941 to defend against Axis powers.

0:20 my entire life style was transformed completely because of,

Looks cold as heck lol.

Clark AFB in the old days was way more fun.

stayed overnight in Feb 1970 (drank a lot of american beer) on my way to CFS Alert, their northern neighbor.

This information is not new it is from the 60s when I was there for a couple of days. The BIG thing we were told was to STAY AWAY FROM THE LOCALS!! They had NO immunity from our diseases and our government, and the USAF, considered it attempted murder if you went near them. That meant a reduction in grade to E1, a nice long stay in Leavenworth and a dishonorable discharge. Needless to say we ALL stayed on the base. Not only because of that but the polar bears were probably more abundant back then than now and that alone made one take notice and keep you inside as much as possible. When the ice was broken and the supply ship came in most of the enlisted guys got jobs helping to unload the ship and they made more money doing that than they did from the Air Force. Good times! lol

This video did not touch on anything on what its like to live at Thule. It just showed planes taking off and landing.

Send in Space Force!

I was there in 1971.

They don’t need those ice breakers anymore

My father was stationed there in 45

How about a human narrator? I'm sure someone on your team can read.

Greenland is Danish understand that USA

Anyone notice the Navy's F18's? Air Force flies the F15's.

HAND full of Canadians but half the Canadian air force hashtag winter ready

So the worst US Air Force base sounds better than the best US Marine base. Sounds about right.

Anytime you boys (and girls) want to head to a real northern base, just head up to CFS Alert, located only 90 miles from the North Pole.

Did he say Skeet ? 😍

You didn’t mention the b52 that crashed there !!!

Let's go build a Quinzee.

Greenland should be split buy between United States, Canada, and Denmark. USA provides the protection, Canada the population, and Denmark the moral high ground. It's the ONLY way to prevent Russian, Chinese aggression.

2000-2001 Fantastic experience! At first I thought I was being punished but anyone who's been stationed there knows it's quite the opposite 😉

Narrator: "and a hand full of Canadians." Video: Nothing but Canadians on an exercise. (like Op NANOOK or something) Me: Come on, show the fun stuff like the bowling alley, go-cart track, and 18 hole golf course.. Or how fun it is to climb the beer can while checking out the village on the way. 😁

Thule was also a German group... Secret group

The space command? What happened to Space Force?

Okk is there any place on this planet where America doesn't have any secret millitary base or a sub or even a safe house?😅😅

THULE ?? TOO COLD!1

Are those FA 18 attack jets?In the Air Force?

Thule is where you go when you piss off the first shirt

Pff - Alert is closer, if you want a measuring contest.