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Fort Knox, 10-3-66 "A-11-3, every man a tiger, raahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Remember the ID photo session? They put a half dress shirt on you with a tie and an ill fitting hat. I was so dumb, when they asked me what the breakfast of champions was, I said "Wheaties."
Had a Winchester m-14 though, loved that rifle, I couldn't miss with it.
JP LOWER, (Dave) Fired the 14 for qualification at Pendleton in '68. Was issued one in VN and loved it. not like all the 'black plastic' everyone else was issued.
Did you ever find a 7 1/2 .44 RF barrel for my SAA?
quote:Originally posted by 70-101
Camp Crockett wasn't a basic training center, it was a infantry AIT training center for those who were going airborne.
absolutely correct. I was there in 1969.
Ft. Bliss, July 19-Sept 22 1967, hot sand hotter asphalt! What ever happened to the BB Guns we used in Quick Kill training? Sure would love to have one today. From Ft. Bliss to Ft. Sam, San Antonio Basic Medic, Corpman served Korea Feb 1968/69
Ft. Jackson, SC, Feb-April, 1961. Two years ago I went onto Ft. Jackson and could find nothing familiar. The water tank on Tank Hill, which was the destination for morning runs, was gone! Finally an MP directed me to the post museum, where I saw the only items on the post that looked familiar. Our old style quarter ton Jeep was there, along with the clapboard barracks, fitted out inside as I remember, butt cans and all. It brought back memories of hacking up black matter in the morning from the old coal furnace that heated those places. Fire watch war REAL, as the barracks were fire traps. Sand blew 24 hrs. a day and made keeping the M1 Rifle clean a full time job. Made me feel very old, indeed!
Steven in DeLand, FL
I left Amarillo in the middle of October in 68, on my way to Chanute.
By that time, Amarillo was a ghosttown, and I remember all the old run down WWII fire trap barracks.
quote:I left Amarillo in the middle of October in 68, on my way to Chanute.
By that time, Amarillo was a ghosttown, and I remember all the old run down WWII fire trap barracks.
Itcdoty:
I believe that I was in the next to the last flight to go through the base. Things were pretty much shut down.
We didn't have many obstacles in the obstacles course.
TI's getting shipped out and their replacements leaving in a short time, so things were haphazard to say the least.
Went to Sheppard from Amarillo
Fort Cambell, Kentucky May 12, 1967. C-2-1 Co-operate and graduate.
Second most miserable time of my life. Looking back, I wouldn't trade the expeience for anthing.
Mary Jane rotten crotch.
First most miserable experience of my life. Officers candidate school at Fort Benning Georgia. A mighty thank you to the Macon college gals who bravely came and escorted us to our graduation party.Beautiful southren ladies. AND, I do mean LADIES
Sallys on the hill in Phoenix city.
USNTC Bainbridge, Maryland, Co 69, January 1952, cold as hell. Saw my first UFO from the drill field at 0400 on a cold March morning as I walked to the chow hall for service week. The UFO was maneuvering over the Aberdeen Proving Ground. I flew as crewmember for over 20 years and never saw another UFO. Retired out of the Mekong Delta in March 1972.
US Navy Training Center San Diego, 1971. Sometime in July-August I think. Would have to check. Then directly to Damage Control A School, US Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco CA. Then to my ship.
Fort Ord 1956, ihe days when they used coal fired furnaces for each building , the days when recruits pulled KP and cussed misery hill when carrying a field pack loaded with rocks [:D]
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****FORT POLK, LA ************
Remember the ID photo session? They put a half dress shirt on you with a tie and an ill fitting hat. I was so dumb, when they asked me what the breakfast of champions was, I said "Wheaties."
Had a Winchester m-14 though, loved that rifle, I couldn't miss with it.
JP
[8D]
Did you ever find a 7 1/2 .44 RF barrel for my SAA?
At MEPS, they said, "Get Hollywood (2nd Bde); NOT Tank Hill (1st Bde) (as if we had a choice).
We pulled up Alpha Co., 1st Bn., 1st Platoon - very first barracks, IN THE SHADOW OF THE TANK!!! UGH
September 1969
Camp Crockett wasn't a basic training center, it was a infantry AIT training center for those who were going airborne.
absolutely correct. I was there in 1969.
TB
Steven in DeLand, FL
quote:Originally posted by swinehart
Amarillo Air Force Base Oct. 1968
I left Amarillo in the middle of October in 68, on my way to Chanute.
By that time, Amarillo was a ghosttown, and I remember all the old run down WWII fire trap barracks.
1964
By that time, Amarillo was a ghosttown, and I remember all the old run down WWII fire trap barracks.
Itcdoty:
I believe that I was in the next to the last flight to go through the base. Things were pretty much shut down.
We didn't have many obstacles in the obstacles course.
TI's getting shipped out and their replacements leaving in a short time, so things were haphazard to say the least.
Went to Sheppard from Amarillo
All WOFT candidates went there.
Second most miserable time of my life. Looking back, I wouldn't trade the expeience for anthing.
Mary Jane rotten crotch.
First most miserable experience of my life. Officers candidate school at Fort Benning Georgia. A mighty thank you to the Macon college gals who bravely came and escorted us to our graduation party.Beautiful southren ladies. AND, I do mean LADIES
Sallys on the hill in Phoenix city.