To: SLB
Nope, about 95% are gone.Came back to FKKY from RVN in Oct 66 in the middle of a huge blizzard that shut down the place for a week. All the barracks burned high-sulfur coal, the stink of which hung in your nostrils until April.
If I want to get nostalgic about the good old USAARMC&S -- and I don't -- I need simply chug-a-lug a 40oz Ballantine Ale, wolf down a half-dozen hard-boiled eggs and wait for a giant fart. Oh, the memories that rush back! And that ain't all....
18 posted on
01/07/2007 12:59:10 PM PST by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: Snickersnee
Mrs SLB moved here from Tampa the fall of 1966. Needless to say, the blizzard was a huge surprise for them.
Strangely, the smell of the coal burners in all the buildings is something I miss. I was at Knox for AIT in 1970 and then came back from RVN in 1971. You would not know the place now. There are probably not more than a very small handful of the old WWII buildings left.
19 posted on
01/07/2007 1:07:50 PM PST by
SLB
(Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
To: Snickersnee
Came back to FKKY from RVN in Oct 66 in the middle of a huge blizzard that shut down the place for a week. All the barracks burned high-sulfur coal, the stink of which hung in your nostrils until April. If I want to get nostalgic about the good old USAARMC&S -- and I don't -- I need simply chug-a-lug a 40oz Ballantine Ale, wolf down a half-dozen hard-boiled eggs and wait for a giant fart. Oh, the memories that rush back! And that ain't all....
I did OSUT training at FT Knox in Jan83 and came back to Knox in 85 for BNCOC.... good times
27 posted on
01/07/2007 4:56:22 PM PST by
Nat Turner
(DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME)
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