Posted by Jack
I thought some of you might like to see these pics from my last training base. I’m an old recycle and even though I am, and basically just a paper pusher, I still had to take some specialized training to keep me up to Army standards.
Unfortunately, our website isn’t really set up for a whole lot of show and tell, so I had to shrink the pics down a lot to get them to load quckly, just hope you can see them ok.
These pics might bring back memories to some of you from the Army, the Guard, Army Reserve or USMC Reserve. Those soldiers all trained at Camp Parks. The photo below shows the entrance to one of the main buildings on post where you go for indoor training classes. I don’t think its been updated in the past 40 years.
During WWII General Patton was the base commander. The base was a lot bigger and a whole lot busier back then with hundreds of armored vehicles running around! Now the base is only sporadically busy with new soldiers being cycled through ever so often. While I was there the base was pretty busy and all the barracks were filled up. I think the barracks were left over from WWII, they were a little on the primitive side, but clean and it kept us out of the weather. That’s about all I can say for them!
This is my class. I’m the oldest guy in it, but I made it!
This (see below) ought to be familiar to anyone who has ever served. It’s the standard GI closet and here you see the sum of my worldly possessions and it ain’t much! The good part is I never had to worry what I was going to wear today.
Shown below are some of my friends who were taking the same class as I was. Behind them is the infamous parade ground where soldiers spent many hours drilling. Sometimes it went on late into the night. Left…left…left, right left…(I can still here that cadence!!! lol)
The picture above is the new Army truck that replaced the duece and a half (2.5 ton) troop carrier. it rides a 100% better than the old deuce and the seating is a lot better too.