Sorta, kind of. I'm originally from Monterey. Fort Ord, to be precise, but good old Bubba Clinton closed it down and sold it off to some left-wing university for a song.
Hundreds of houses built to military specs (with taxpayer dollars) now lie fallow there, with trees growing through the roofs. That's my birthplace.
My dad was stationed there when he was a cook in the national guard. I actually visited the barracks there when I was about 5 or 6.
Seems like some weird scene out of Star Trek now, looking back on it.