photo by Joe Johnston
Oak trees frame an abandoned barracks building, among those that will be soon torn down.
Company mess at basic training graduation.
Artillery drill, watch those short rounds : )
Barracks.
Posted on 01/22/2012 12:57:42 PM PST by concentric circles
Company mess at basic training graduation.
Artillery drill, watch those short rounds : )
Barracks.
These look just like the barracks that were at Camp Atterbury (Ind). When they wanted them removed they allowed anyone who wanted, to come and dismantle them for the materials contained therein free.
Thanks for posting. My Dad was in the CA NG in the early to mid-60’s and spent a couple weeks each summer at Camp Roberts. However, I never saw any pictures of the place until today.
Oh I forgot, That was the late 70s- 80s timeframe
These are the same as every WW2 barracks design. I’ve been in that type of building in the 70s and 80s at Ft. Riley KS, Ft. Chaffee AR, Ft. Hood TX and Ft. Sill OK. I stayed in one of the last surviving examples of this at Ft. Sill with a group of Boy Scouts doing a post tour in the 90s.
I was tempted to post photos of the tarantulas and rattlesnakes but figured the thread is already a little image heavy for dial up readers.
That must have been before environmentalists sold the idea that a chip of lead based paint could cause wide spread disease, plague and famine.
The same generic design of all the WWII era barracks. My days of Basic Training at Folk Polk, North Fort, memories were spent sleeping in one just like it. Late 1971 to early 1972. Drafty and leaked.
I was housed in one of their single story barracks in the mid 90’s for my USAR unit’s mission change. I was a 39T/29J being re-trained to 63W. I stayed in the 2 story version for basic at Ft. Jackson in 89 and then a few times at Ft. Custer. I hated those old barracks, but did appreciate their history. I often wondered about the soldiers that preceeded me...these barracks sheltered many who gave the ultimate sacrifice!
Brings back memories of Ft Cambell basic days way back in 68
Also air at Ft Gordon,then on to Ft Bragg where I spent about a
Yr being a fireman there....firing coal furnaces in the barracks an
Motor pool px’s,s etc
I was always scared of fire in those barracks,
They still were better than those hooches
I preferred the old wooden barracks as shown in your top picture, ( that picture reminds me of basic at Ft. Polk), at jump school I liked the intimacy and the history in the wooden barracks, and was disappointed when during our last week, we were sent over to some new concrete barracks.
Anyone out here in Internet land ever spend time at Ray Barracks in Germany, just outside Friedburg?
If so, ping me. I have a video you like to see.
That night, some enterprenuer who hated to see all that fine ammo go to waste, dug down and salvaged a few boxes.
The powers that be were outraged, so they dug out the ammo, dug a *much* deeper hole, and made sure it was all buried very deeply, so as to prevent salvagers from accessing it.
I have no idea how much was buried, but I would easily believe that it was in the millions of rounds.
LOL!! Welcome to the Army!
I was there at Camp Roberts in 1951 for basic training and leadership school, then shipped off for OCS followed by a lovely flight to Tokyo and cruise to Puson the day after landing..
My Father was stationed at Camp Roberts during WW2. At one point he was assigned to ride “troop trains” up and down the West Coast. These “troop trains” were almost empty, but made to appear to the Japanese there were a lot more troops than there actually were, on the west coast.
We used to call it ‘Camp Bob’. I was there for an FTX in 1981 and later as a guest of a CANG mechanised infantry company that a friend of mine commanded.
Roberts is a dreary looking place, but there is seemingly always something going on there, judging by the constantly changing stack of rail cars loaded with equipment. If they close Roberts, that action has to go somewhere, and will probably cost more.
Something about this smells funny.
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