photo by Joe Johnston
Oak trees frame an abandoned barracks building, among those that will be soon torn down.
Company mess at basic training graduation.
Artillery drill, watch those short rounds : )
Barracks.
Company mess at basic training graduation.
Artillery drill, watch those short rounds : )
Barracks.
These look just like the barracks that were at Camp Atterbury (Ind). When they wanted them removed they allowed anyone who wanted, to come and dismantle them for the materials contained therein free.
Thanks for posting. My Dad was in the CA NG in the early to mid-60’s and spent a couple weeks each summer at Camp Roberts. However, I never saw any pictures of the place until today.
These are the same as every WW2 barracks design. I’ve been in that type of building in the 70s and 80s at Ft. Riley KS, Ft. Chaffee AR, Ft. Hood TX and Ft. Sill OK. I stayed in one of the last surviving examples of this at Ft. Sill with a group of Boy Scouts doing a post tour in the 90s.
The same generic design of all the WWII era barracks. My days of Basic Training at Folk Polk, North Fort, memories were spent sleeping in one just like it. Late 1971 to early 1972. Drafty and leaked.
I was housed in one of their single story barracks in the mid 90’s for my USAR unit’s mission change. I was a 39T/29J being re-trained to 63W. I stayed in the 2 story version for basic at Ft. Jackson in 89 and then a few times at Ft. Custer. I hated those old barracks, but did appreciate their history. I often wondered about the soldiers that preceeded me...these barracks sheltered many who gave the ultimate sacrifice!
I preferred the old wooden barracks as shown in your top picture, ( that picture reminds me of basic at Ft. Polk), at jump school I liked the intimacy and the history in the wooden barracks, and was disappointed when during our last week, we were sent over to some new concrete barracks.
Anyone out here in Internet land ever spend time at Ray Barracks in Germany, just outside Friedburg?
If so, ping me. I have a video you like to see.
That night, some enterprenuer who hated to see all that fine ammo go to waste, dug down and salvaged a few boxes.
The powers that be were outraged, so they dug out the ammo, dug a *much* deeper hole, and made sure it was all buried very deeply, so as to prevent salvagers from accessing it.
I have no idea how much was buried, but I would easily believe that it was in the millions of rounds.
I was there at Camp Roberts in 1951 for basic training and leadership school, then shipped off for OCS followed by a lovely flight to Tokyo and cruise to Puson the day after landing..
We used to call it ‘Camp Bob’. I was there for an FTX in 1981 and later as a guest of a CANG mechanised infantry company that a friend of mine commanded.
Roberts is a dreary looking place, but there is seemingly always something going on there, judging by the constantly changing stack of rail cars loaded with equipment. If they close Roberts, that action has to go somewhere, and will probably cost more.
Something about this smells funny.
A couple of the old barracks. Never saw the inside of the "new" barracks.
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Watch "Stripes" when Murray and the rest of the cast get off the bus at Ft. Knox. The barracks behind the bus is the one I bunked in. And the intake building is where I worked from time to time.
Of course I was there in 1976, so I missed my chance at the Big Screen. :B^)
Ed
I wonder if they've ever heard of pyrolysis with a closed loop scrubber?
why does burying their hazardous waste in a private landfill “harm the Earth” less than burying it in any landfill available. I would have piled it up and torched it....gone forever, no waste, no future problems, a tiny bit of air pollution which mother nature would have taken care of in a flash. There’s not a whole lot of pollution in the air from Mt. St. Helen eruption is there...
My father was a career Army officer. I remember as a boy we were stationed at Fort Story, VA. The Army had converted several of the WW2 barracks into family quarters. Each bay was converted into a 3 bedroom apartment, 4 apartments to each barracks building. There were seven kids in our family and we got the entire top floor, two apartments with 6 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 living rooms, 2 kitchens, etc. My Father said it was his favorite set of quarters.
I was stationed at Camp Bob during 87 & 88. Believe it or not there was (and to my knowledge still is) a satellite earth station and a satellite control facility that shows on maps as a power station. The Sergeant Major at the time threatened to move us out of our apartments in Paso Robles and into the very buildings you have posted pictures of. His 11B disposition did not care for us 29Y types because he lacked the clearance to access some of the areas we worked in. Ah the memories....
Thanks for posting the pics and giving me the opportunity to reminisce.