Posted on Jan 19, 2015
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This is really cool. Do you remember this place?

http://cardinalweather.weebly.com/military-memorabilia-bases.html
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LTC Substitute Teacher
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I did reserve annual traing there a couple times. They also have kept some military housing , PX and commissary at the southern portion. The former Silas B Hayes Hospital is now a DEERs processing center.
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SGT Jesse Velasquez
SGT Jesse Velasquez
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I also remember pulling gate guard, we probably waved some of you on by.
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SFC Charles Williams
SFC Charles Williams
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As a junior enlisted I worked at that hospital dental clinic pulling duty at night.
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SGT James Murphy
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I went through Fort Ord on my way to Korea and ETS'd OUT There as Well!
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SFC Domingo M.
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I hate it when I see that my past has been erased. This is the reason they say, "You can't ever go back home." Stillwell Hall was one place the military never should have done away with, it was military history.
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SFC Thomas Howes
SFC Thomas Howes
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I did 8 years there 80 to 81 then cam back 83 to 89
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SFC Thomas Howes
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Well I just moved back up to Monterey took a job at the Naval post Grad school. I have been riding around old Ft Ord it is sad they closed it. Talk to a bunch of people that worked out there it hurt a lot when they closed for them.
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LTC Marc King
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First assignment after commissioning... Oct 1967... Beach ranges, Lagun Seca race track, shutting down the machine gun ranges when aircraft were on approach to Monterey airport. Weekends in Carmel and San Francisco. Hiipies, Peace Signs... oh yes I remember!
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SFC Charles Williams
SFC Charles Williams
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Sounds like we crossed paths...I remember getting there around 67 or 68.
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LTC Marc King
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SFC Charles Williams I was assigned there and arrived on station Nov 1967
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Been in similar barracks but different bases.
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I was in them at Tech School.
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MSG Michael Caldwell
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I was with 2/10 Air Cav across from the NCO club back in 84-85
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I am fascinated by the old bases and barracks. A simpler time and more old school and now I get why the older vets felt the way they did and do.
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SGT Jesse Velasquez
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SGT Jesse Velasquez - I revisited Ft. Ord in 2006, it sure brought back a
It of memories. My barracks is right by Light fighter field, I drove by it to see what it
Looked like, all the windows and doors were all boarded up. I sure miss that place.
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SFC Thomas Howes
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I remember that unit
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LTC Gail Daras
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My husband and I watched the film with interest. It was my first duty station. We closed it down in 93 and both participated in the final ceremony on the parade field.
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SGT Jesse Velasquez
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SGT Jesse Velasquez less than a minute
I remember Light fighter field as well, I was there from 91-93, Aco 1-18 inf. Buffalos. I believe the old iron drill sgt. Statue is still there. Our unit also pulled gate guard occasionally out at the main gate. I've probably waved you on by.
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I was stationed at Fort Ord from 1987 to 1990 I ran the Missile shop for th 519th Maint., commanded the 504th Maint. Detachment, and managed the missile shop for tha 707 th Maint. BN. 7th Inf. (light)
PO2 Rodney Chong
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Remember Fort Ord. Went to basic and commo school there in 1972
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SPC Eod Team Member
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Well I can't say I remember it ever being a base, but my father lives in Monterey, and we used to go out to Fort Ord all the time to just mess around. I remember some people turned the prison there into a paintball park, with an inside arena throughout the complex and an outside field inside the prison yard. It was pretty cool. Too bad it got shut down because the neighbors nearby complained that the paintball guns were scaring the horses.
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Yeah that is too bad. It seems any time someone wants to enjoy themselves (like with racing) someone has to rain on it.
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SPC Todd Hanson
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I had the privilege of going TDY to NPS in Monterey. If I get to go again I will have to explore Fort Ord. In Atlanta the signs are still up on the railroad for fort McPherson
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Yes do visit and take some pictures. In all honesty I still dream of the barracks with the steep roofs and facades. Something like reverence.
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SPC Todd Hanson
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Roger will do. The barracks from the video remind me of ones at FT McCoy
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