Posted on 04/04/2007 6:33:20 PM PDT by SandRat
Two Bay-area Catholic priests facing prison time for trespassing at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista pleaded innocent in federal court in Tucson on Tuesday morning. The priests — the Rev. Louis J. Vitale and the Rev. Steve Kelly — are scheduled to go to trial June 6 and June 4, respectively.
The pair are accused of trespassing at Fort Huachuca, about 75 miles southeast of Tucson, on Nov. 19 while protesting military intelligence training.
They were set to deliver a letter to the post's top commander, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, stating that the facility trains personnel in torture methods, a claim the Army denies.
Vitale, a 74-year-old Franciscan priest, and Kelly, a 58-year-old Jesuit priest, both have been locked up previously for acts of civil disobedience.
Before the priests' arraignment Tuesday morning, about 30 people held a vigil and rally for them outside the U.S. District Courthouse, reading from Scripture and singing songs about social justice.
Supporters say they're planning a public-awareness campaign about the fort's military intelligence school for the weeks leading up to the trials.
Trespassers will be violated.
Ah, my old stomping grounds! Wonder if the Spice Rack is still behind the USAICS barracks? Anyone?
The Spice Rack? You’re dating yourself. That building hasn’t been used for much more than storage in years.
MI Ping
I’d heard rumors that Fort Huachuca had something to do with sneaky spy stuff. Now we know, huh :-) At least it’s still functional. I just looked up Fort Devens, where I spent a few weeks. It’s a museum now.
We knew Ft. Devens would be turned into a museum as soon as possible after MI destroyed ASA.
Book’em Danno!!
It would be more fun to experiment on them.
MOS 96B (Intelligence Analyst) Class 78-9. Everyone else went to Germany, while I shipped out for Korea.
Got that short tour out of the way quick, didn't ya'?
At least you didn't go as a 17K. (snicker, snicker...)
I wonder if they’ll turn us ASA vets into museums too :-) I think I’d cut a fine figure, stuffed, mounted on a pedestal and put out for public viewing on the town square. They’ll never get my uniform back on, but that’s a detail.
Huachuca. Huachuca.
I got nothing to add...I just like saying... Huachuca.
“Got that short tour out of the way quick, didn’t ya’?” Hell, I reenlisted to go back to Korea! Didn’t like the motorpool at Fort Hood vs. actually doing my job.
Ft. Riley was no better. That wasn’t really mud out along the tank trails...
I guess I got lucky doing my overseas tours in Germany. Three years surrounded by the Sovs in Berlin...yeah, good tour.
OBTW, thanks for your service!
Lots of times my uniform was a pair of flip flops, cut off ragged jeans, and a hole filled t-shirt.
Fort We-Gotchya?
Does the Vatican have anything to do or say about this, assuming that the archdiocese of Tucson and San Francisco do not? I am tired of priests getting away with illegal acts, and you all know what I am talking about. I ask this as an angry Catholic. I want my religion back before I bolt. (I will wait for their trials and verdict, but I am peeved, dangnamit.)
I wonder if the Ozone is still around.
I remember some wild nights there. I’m told I don’t remember a few that were wilder.
MOS 72G U3 rating Class of March 1984.
I suspected that, given recent history. I was taught to expect more from the Church. They were the ones that taught me. And now another lesson.
MOS 97B40 class of 1970- Fort Holibird, MD.
Oh, yeah, I was there six months and loved it all. Lived in a huge apartment with three other guys in the British sector, near KuDamm. Got sent packing within 48 hours when a guy in our unit fell asleep on the U-bahn and ended up in Soviet hands. They bled him for a few days, sent him back, and the scuttlebutt was that his next tour was in Leavenworth. Everybody in our unit had to go, down to the last cook. I went to Luebeck. That was pretty nice too :-)
I never had a chance at that, but I did live off base at ALS, in Pacific Grove, and walked to class every morning. The apt. was supported by running poker games :-) Commuted to work (Rudow) from an apartment in Berlin, in my own car.
Bother all you people who can remember your MOS. Mine had four digits (language) and I can't for the life of me remember it any more.
I think they used that guy’s story to scare the rest of us into not sleeping on the U-bahn!
Living near the Ku-Damm had to be great. I’m sorry for you that you didn’t get to enjoy it longer.
Ah well - I heard that Luebeck had it’s high points, too.
Yes. Kaiserwilhelmstrasse. Maybe four blocks from Ku-Damm, I don't remember. The apartment was about 4 acres for a hundred bucks a month. One of my roomies was air force, working out of Tempelhof. There were two others and I don't remember what they did -- it wasn't at Rudow. This was, as noted, in the British sector, ergo outside the patrol range of MPs. Life was good and the supply of frauleins was generous beyond the dreams of youthful lechery :-)
“Fort Devens...It’s a museum now.”
Wow. I did not know that. If ASA is gone, who’s doing the listening? Just NSA?
98G2LGMK3
I was a little surprised too. Dunno a thing about it. The one thing I remember most vividly about my stay was flying out of the local airfield. It was the flattened top of a hill. When the plane — an overloaded DC3 that had seen private service in Alaska — finally staggered off the ground, it went DOWN.
Sorry, I just got back online.
Re; That 17K comment... I represent that. They didn’t call us the grunts of MI fer nothin’. I also remember something about being called a pop-up target, too!?!
The Ozone? Nope, there have been several differnt operations in that building over the past few years. The building is too far away from the soldiers now.
As an aside, the building wasn’t there when I first saw Fort Huachuca, and Riley Barracks wasn’t even competed yet. Prosser Village (used to be called MI Village) wasn’t even a pipe dream back then; there was no East gate, but the North Gate into Huachuca City was open.
I think it was still called MI village when I was there.
I was over in the 11th Silly BDE though.
That was my first duty assignment, but I haven't been there in about 6 years. As a matter of fact, I flew out of Boston on 9 September, 2001 for a short time at fort we-got-cha.
Not true. I’ve been stationed here at Devens for 6 years. Massachusetts took the “fort” away as a slap in the face and to somehow entice business to develop the land we no longer use. Since they took the “fort” out of Fort Devens, I don’t mind taking the “M” out of Massachusetts....
Well, I’m certainly relieved that you took that as the joke I meant it to be.
I think you know that I have nothing but the utmost respect for you and your service.
As for pop-up targets...I think one or two of our Captains served that purpose well in DCD!
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