A couple of the old barracks. Never saw the inside of the "new" barracks.
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Posted on 01/22/2012 12:57:42 PM PST by concentric circles
>> “I was there at Camp Roberts in 1951 for basic training and leadership school...” <<
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I was in First Grade in 1951... Yer an old fart! :o)
A couple of the old barracks. Never saw the inside of the "new" barracks.
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Watch "Stripes" when Murray and the rest of the cast get off the bus at Ft. Knox. The barracks behind the bus is the one I bunked in. And the intake building is where I worked from time to time.
Of course I was there in 1976, so I missed my chance at the Big Screen. :B^)
Ed
I wonder if they've ever heard of pyrolysis with a closed loop scrubber?
I think the California National Guard still operates facilities at Camp Roberts. The story mentions $12 million budgeted for upgrading 106 barracks with capacity for 4,200 men.
why does burying their hazardous waste in a private landfill “harm the Earth” less than burying it in any landfill available. I would have piled it up and torched it....gone forever, no waste, no future problems, a tiny bit of air pollution which mother nature would have taken care of in a flash. There’s not a whole lot of pollution in the air from Mt. St. Helen eruption is there...
cheer up, your day will come - youngster!!!
Not all that much different from the barracks in navy boot camp San Diego or at NAS Millington TN 1968-69. Was in the same company as Jessie Ventura for boot camp.
Makes me wonder if they were concerned about their “carbon footprint.”
My father was a career Army officer. I remember as a boy we were stationed at Fort Story, VA. The Army had converted several of the WW2 barracks into family quarters. Each bay was converted into a 3 bedroom apartment, 4 apartments to each barracks building. There were seven kids in our family and we got the entire top floor, two apartments with 6 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 living rooms, 2 kitchens, etc. My Father said it was his favorite set of quarters.
I took basic there in 73 on the side of Tank Hill. My Drill Sgt was a Plt Sgt with 23 years in, he was a Korean war vet. One day marching down Tank Hill, a couple barracks rows below us, he pointed to his old barracks he went through basic in. The trails leading out towards the firing ranges went downhill. Coming back we literally had to climb up the red clay trails. That was called "drag-ass" hill.
I went to second grade at the Marine Corps base at Quantico back in the early 60s. The elementary school at the time was a pair of pre-WWII barracks. Each platoon bay had been converted to a classroom. The school was located near the chapel. For phys-ed during rainy days they had us play in the basement of one of the buildings. Livin’ large on the Marine base!
Then I got to try out the WWII barracks at Ft. Knox in basic combat training 1974. Learned how to use a floor buffer real well and also saw the use of Brasso on urinal fixtures for the first time. They are all gone now, including the PX annex where they used to sell beer to the trainees without checking to see that they were at least 18.
I was stationed at Camp Bob during 87 & 88. Believe it or not there was (and to my knowledge still is) a satellite earth station and a satellite control facility that shows on maps as a power station. The Sergeant Major at the time threatened to move us out of our apartments in Paso Robles and into the very buildings you have posted pictures of. His 11B disposition did not care for us 29Y types because he lacked the clearance to access some of the areas we worked in. Ah the memories....
Thanks for posting the pics and giving me the opportunity to reminisce.
Tank Hill (Bravo 1-1) 1984. Many trips up and down drag-ass hill.
WWII Barrack at Fort Leonard Wood Museum Complex - 1 minute 30 seconds
WWII Barracks - 4 minutes 30 seconds
I too was in the CA NG in 1961 and spent a couple of weeks at Camp Roberts. I was in the 49th Inf.
My wife's dad was a National Guard Lt. Colonel, and she spent part of her life growing up in housing on Camp Roberts.
Central coast California is beautiful, and actually a bit more conservative than most of the state.
You know, I’ve still have not seen any true statistics for the number of children that died from eating paint flakes.
IMHO, eliminating lead paint has left us with many lesser paints that do not match its durability and longevity. Maybe that was the reason. Nothing seems to last, because manufacturers want us to replace everything we own at short intervals.
I have no fear of lead paint and would love to have some of the old wood from those barracks. We really need to get the EPA lobbyists out of our lives.
Do we know each other?
Sergeant Major Smith was a pain in the a$$.
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