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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I went to basic training at Ft Jackson on tank hill all were WW2 buildings no AC heat sucked when I went to AIT other side of base to new building was thinking I must have died, damn I miss them days
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LTC Stephen C.
SSgt (Join to see), I stayed in the same barracks (area) as MSgt Dan Hurley for basic training. D-3-1 on Tank Hill at Fort Jackson, SC, 11NOV69 to 16JAN70. Also stayed in the same type of white, wooden temporary WWII barracks building for jump school at Fort Benning from 23MAR70 to 9APR70. Was attached to the 47th Company, 4th Student Battalion.
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I know they were at Ft. Bragg until as recently as 2010. I lived in them 2008 as in incoming Private. So far as I know JFKSWCS still uses them. They were terrible in the sense that you had no privacy, and you definitely couldn't bring a girl back. On the other hand they were awesome because you could basically play a full contact game of football in them and no one would care. I'm pretty sure they should have been condemned though...:-/
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They were all over in the Army still back in the 80's. FT Knox used them for recruit reception (same ones you saw in movie Stripes). FT Riley had them on Camp Forsyth in the 80s also, I stayed in them from 86 to 87, when I departed back to Korea. Korea, many of the barracks were still old quinset huts till the mid to late 80s.....
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Lived in them for BCT in 1974 at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. and 12 years later after leaving Active Duty for Mi. ARNG at Ft. Custer, Mi. as late as 1998. As Const. Engr. we insulated and re-roofed amny of the Old Bldgs. there.
Yes I do miss the old barracks there was comarraderie that is missing in todays MILITARY.
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Nope, but our barracks at Offutt AFB was an old civil war era hospital.
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Lived in original, open-bay barracks at Lackland AFB, TX, basic training, and Sheppard AFB, TX, 2nd phase basic and jet engine tech school, 1957-58. Thought I had moved into the "Ritz Hotel" when I hit my 1st permanent party base at Malmstrom AFB, Montana in March, 1958...
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SrA Naioma Lutz
I lived in the open-bay barracks will going through basic training at Lackland beginning October 1958. Although not open bay I lived in Ft. Myers Army barracks in Arlington, Virginia in the early 60s. Although I was in the USAF we were housed in the Army barracks. I was on special assignment at the U.S. House of Representatives. I see you are an ordained minister, Alan. You might like to take a look at some of my writing. In my "old age" I have become a wannabe writer. http://www.fanstory.com/jean_lutz
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In June 1994, I was in the Navy reserve, and we did our 2 weeks drill, at Pearl Harbor. Our sleeping quarters were an old World War 2 Hospital that had been converted into a barracks. It was very close to where the USS Arizona was sunk.
There was a liberty boat that ran between Ford Island and Pearl Harbor 1 round trip every hour. So after the work day, we'd have to wait for the liberty boat to go change from our dungrees to civies, then jump back on the liberty boat, to go on liberty.
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