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A lot has changed since 1974! SPC Margaret Higgins COL Mikel J. Burroughs CW5 Jack Cardwell Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT (Join to see) CPL Dave Hoover SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SSG Michael Noll SGT Steve McFarland 1SG Steven Imerman CPL Douglas Chrysler SPC Douglas Bolton PO1 H Gene Lawrence Sgt (Join to see) LTC Stephen F. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Fort Polk looked nothing like that in 1974 when I went through Basic Training. What cafeteria? We had a mess hall with "food" that was often unrecognizable. OLD wooden barracks...etc.
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SGT Steve McFarland
LTC Greg Henning It was hotter than hell at Fort Polk during June, July and August. It was 'Little Vietnam" in Louisiana.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT Steve McFarland- Wasn’t much better when I was an AIT instructor back in 1967/68 and I thought I had left Vietnam behind,but dang it followed me home!
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LTC Greg Henning - My first three days in Uncle Sam’s Army at Ft.Dix then out processing to Ft.Lewis ,guess they didn’t want me so close to home,Nov.1965
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SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D
Fort Gordon '66 with a pot belly stove the only source of heat and lived in old buildings that I believe housed enemy prisoners during WWII. Can't even remember one meal so it must have been gourmet meals!!!!
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Not all basic training post had bays, I went to Ft. Leonardwood in 1992 and we had 8 man rooms, did not see a bay until engineer school.
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SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D - Yep D 210 basic our barracks on the 3rd floor had 8 man rooms down the main hall and 4 man rooms on the very end, but on the first floor 1st platoon had big open bays. Not sure why, when I went to engineer school we had bays.
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