[ansel12]

Splinter Village, that’s pretty good, is there any history for them?

Benning was also where I saw my first concrete barracks I guess it was the last week, or last few days or something. I preferred the old open bay wooden barracks.

[TADSLOS]

The Infantry Museum at Benning may have one of the old wooden barracks on display. I know they have several of the old Ranger squad huts from Camp Merrill (Dahlonega, GA) on display. You can still see the Ranger student names and class numbers carved in the walls. The Ranger Department was still operating out of a section of wooden barracks and admin buildings at Harmony Church up until the mid-eighties. I was there from 80-82. My office was in one of those. We still used coal to heat it in the winter.

I stopped by there in 2002 after watching my son graduate from Airborne School. All of those old barracks are gone now- nothing left but a few bricks from the chimney stacks. The company street was even pulled up. A damned shame. That place has some real history attached to it. It's the same locale where Infantry OCS was based during WWII.