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Basic Training: Ft Leonard Wood 1967

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Uploaded by on Nov 7, 2007

A series of still black & white photos from 1967 showing young men from their time of induction into the US Army to basic training and graduation at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

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  • cant wait to go! haha whats the song?

    I leave thursday next week if anyone cares

  • The song is: "Greetings (This is Uncle Sam)" by The Monitors, released in 1966.

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  • Ha Ha they had pugils back then too

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  • went thru basic and AIT there in1968

  • C-3-2. September 1972.

  • @chongo0303 OSUT-Combat Engineers @ FORT LOST IN THE WOODS April-78 i remember an 8ft log we had to duck walk with if you screwed up, today that would be illegal. LAY HOE HEAVE!!!! 12 BO GALOOO

  • @maplemanz I was also in basic there in 1985. July till September. When you were there.

  • @chongo0303 You were there a year after I was,A-2-4 in '82. I have that book and 45 also and not a damn thing to play it on. LOL

    Are we getting old or what ?!!

  • @dover357 I was in those same barracks at reception in '82.We did the fire watch thing also,I was always like what the hell is this for ? Until i found out they used wood stoves during WW II in the barracks. The stoves were gone when I was there but everything else was pretty much the same even the toilets with no walls between them. LOL

  • I was in A-3-3 for basic Jul-Sep 83

  • Although I took basic at Fort Jackson and AIT at Fort Gordon, they were very similar to this, including the old wooden barracks. Another "smell" I remember is the smell of coal burning in the morning, which permeated the whole base. The old buildings were all heated with coal, and it had a very distinctive smell in the morning. While it was still pitch dark, we fell out for PT and the run, and that coal smell is something I still associate with the early morning.

  • Winter of '66 in the reception center at Ft. L. Wood. WWII era barracks. Fire watch duties at night. Every other window had to open at least 4", and this was in Feb.

  • we did almost the exzact same thing i just did five months one station osut training here

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