[Joe Boucher]

thanks Drill Sargent Brown and Drill Sargent Black and Capt. Kratzenberg for getting my sorry ass through basic at Fort Ord.
Really enjoyed it
doing rifle range on the beach, man o man.

[Gator113]

LOL.... 1965 - Drill Sergeant Nelson .... Strange to many, but I loved the guy. I was RA and only 17 1/2, so I was still very stupid and I actually enjoyed some of those days. The beach, I hated double timing in the sand.

[Old North State]

Fort Ord, man that brings back memories; marching through the Sea Oaks draping Spanish Moss, rifle range out in the ice-plant covered hills along the coast. I still remember that tunnel that ran under the highway.
Going thru basic there was almost surreal. But then there was Seaside to bring you back to reality, what a hole.

[EveningStar]

My father was stationed there, beginning in 1949. We lived on base for a while until my parents bought a house in Pebble Beach, where several other military families resided.