[mystery-ak]

When my hubby trained there in the mid 70's it was an old very, very run down base....barracks were barely liveable....the whole base was like this, living conditions for troops and their families were deplorable....a coat of white paint did not hide the crumbling buildings...the climate and bugs were terrible, and they trained in swamps...everybody who has been to Polk, especially in those years, referred to it as a hellhole.....that is what I was referring to.....above posters have said that Polk has been updated which the troops deserve.

[deport]

You reckon hubby learned a little about surviving in deplorable conditions amongst the swamps, climate and bugs especially in a hell hole located in the As$ of the United States? I bet he did.....

I suspect by the mid-70s it was a mess due to the Vietnam war pull out and troop reductions, etc. Polk was set up in the mid to late 60s to similate Nam in an effort to train troops for surviving the conditions they were expected to encounter over there... [Tiger Land and Tiger Village] ... Pine trees and red sandy clay hills don't normally exist in swamps......

Anyway I was just curious why you felt the way you expressed yourself..... Take care and have a good one.