Now that you have committed yourself to a rewarding career in the armed forces you have found yourself at Fort Dix New Jersey. Consider yourself lucky. Fort Dix is one of the best military facilities on the east coast. They have some of the most up to date equipment and facilities in the region. Just look at this excerpt from their website and see for yourself.

Fort Dix consists of 31,065 acres of land, of which 13,765 acres are range and impact areas and 14,000 are cIassified as contiguous maneuver area. The remainder of the installation is the cantonment area. Fort Dix training areas are bordered by the Lebanon State Forest (26,000 acres), Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Center (2,100 acres) and selected Wildlife Management Areas (34,900 acres) which enable this installation to simultaneously support combat, combat support, and combat service support training.

But now that you are here you are going to eventually need a place to live. Some of the residences here are better than others and it is incumbent upon you to find which ones are the best, so you can be as comfortable as you can be. Sure this is life in the military, but it doesn't have to be all rough.