Was there from Aug 68 thru Sep 69 when I was discharged. Had my radio training there in 67. Was in on post housing in the old calvary enlisted housing area, hard to plant anything and the rattlers would stay by the foundations, was always calling MPs to kill them. Memorable place. Worked at a monitoring station miles off the main airbase road tracking and monitoring NASA Apollo flights. Just a concrete bunker type building with antenna arrays all over.
We wwre ab alt. labding strip but, not any longer.
After a short leave, we were to report to Huachucha. I don't know why, I guess it was just to hold us over till we received our permanent orders. Anyway, they put me and my buddies up in a barracks and for 3 weeks all we did was fall out for formation in the morning and a sergeant would come by and start picking guys for various details around the base.
For the first few days some of us just dug holes for the planting of trees then one day I was picked to go help out in the supply room. The sergeant there said he could use me on a daily basis and to just report in the mornings without going thru the formation. That was fine with me because that hole digging was hard work.........LOL!