Posted on Nov 26, 2013
Has anyone here ever lived in a World War II barracks?
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In 1974, Sheppard AFB had them as well as Lackland, and Chanute AFB. No kidding but I would actually dream about them. One colonel said he never saw a barracks as clean as he saw ours and he sent me to leadership school and made me a Yellow Rope.
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Reception Station at Ft Dix 1972 had wooden WW2 barracks. Stoves at each end of barracks for heat in February. Had guards to watch stoves as we were told barracks could burn done in seconds.
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MCPO Roger Collins
Ah, yes, all that camaraderie. And now we question how badly we are treated in our private spaces. We had fire watches, when I was an E-2, I took a cigarette into the open area and an E-5 wrote me up. Because of the safety situation, I was given a Summary Courts martial. Still hope he died a horrible death, it took me almost 18 years to get promoted to E-9. Damn you EN2 Travis.
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Lived in one during Basic Training and AIT at Ft Sill, Oklahoma. It was from July Until October 1985. Sweltering in the summertime by October thought we were going to freeze. While part of the 2nd ID lived in Quonset huts at Camp Casey, Korea.
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I lived in one of the old wooden barracks while going through basic training at Fort Sill, OK in 1982. and I lived in a quanset hut while in S. Korea in 1984.
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SSG Edward Richardson
I also stayed in Quonset huts when we performed field training on the big island while stationed in HI.
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Yes...Amarillo AFB for Basic Training in 1966/67...then Keesler AFB and then to Goodfellow AFB.
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Ft. Jackson, SC , 1972 we lived in barracks that may have even predated WWII. Tinder boxes that required an active "Fire Guard" at night. Tank Hill was the place. Rows of the same barracks on each street, sand bags neatly surrounding each one and wooden steps up the screen door entrance.
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SGT (Join to see)
I went through Basic there back in '88. Even though we were in the "newer" (1970's) barracks, our basic training platoon always marched up Tank Hill. Good times.
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Aren't the white barracks at Ft Bragg over there from WWII ? they were condemned when I was mobilizing from there in 06 yet we still lived in them for four months. Open showers and toilets, they were beyond disgusting. Oh and one time we stayed in same kind of barracks at Ft Picket, VA. What a nightmare.
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I went through Basic at Lackland AFB in February 1967. The majority of the basic flights, mine included, stayed in WWII barracks. There was only one of the new "Dorms" that housed multiple flights. I remember the open latrine with eight to ten toilets and no stalls for privacy. When it was full, your knees were literally inches away from the guy sitting across from you.
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While in Europe, we stayed in one barracks that actually had gouges from bullets in its stone. It was well maintained though, but there were times, as a Jew, when I'd get lost in thought, wondering how many of the prior residents would be whirling like tops in whatever hole they were in, seeing a Jew calmly walking in and out of that building.
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When I worked as a contractor to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2002, I briefly lived in a Denver Steel house. This was a converted WWII barracks that someone had renovated as a residence. It was a horrible three-week experience.
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