I haven’t hiked up to those long guns on that hill overlooking Marshall Field since I was a kid.
The Custer Hill area is the large curving bluff where all the Unaccompanied Enlisted Personell Barracks are as well as much of the large vehicle maintenance facilities and the start of the Tank Trail. Its uphill from all the old facilities that date back to the calvary era. If you drove on a long one way, two lane curving road (Appinines) you were on Custer Hill.
While I didn’t bury a horse there, I did go through two tornadoes, one in ‘73 on the bluff above Funston in a tents and one in ‘05 about a mile from my jobsite — I hope they count.
Ft. Riley is a fabulous post. We have photos of us sitting on the barrel of one of those cannons. So much fun and memories! One day, my soldier daughter and I spent the entire day just visiting all the museums and historic sites. I loved the trenches and the buffalo soldiers exhibits. Hence, I know of the burried horse, and his statue!! LOL!
We climbed up to the remains of the chimney of the famous soldier, sorry, I can’t recall his name, Audy Murphy? I’m probably wrong on that.
Now my kids are leaving Ft. Campbell (hell hole) and moving to Ft. Lewis this week.
I never got to tour Ft. Campbell like I did Ft. Riley, I’m sure there’s tons of history there, but it isn’t a military friendly place since Obama. They’re totally PC, and wrecking the post. My kids hated being posted there.
I can tell you a hellish story about their upcoming move. Everything was botched, so far, they’ve put $1300 of their pay into their ‘government move’. It’s been royally screwed up since the orders were issued.
Any my son-in-law just finished his 5th tour.
Thanks gov for appreciating our guys. We
re not fretting, Obama has Osama for a campaign partner.
Our military HATES this resident.