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 went to second grade at the Marine Corps base at Quantico back in the early 60s. The elementary school at the time was a pair of pre-WWII barracks. Each platoon bay had been converted to a classroom. The school was located near the chapel. For phys-ed during rainy days they had us play in the basement of one of the buildings. Livin’ large on the Marine base!
Then I got to try out the WWII barracks at Ft. Knox in basic combat training 1974. Learned how to use a floor buffer real well and also saw the use of Brasso on urinal fixtures for the first time. They are all gone now, including the PX annex where they used to sell beer to the trainees without checking to see that they were at least 18.