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Wheres the greasy spoon

I had just left for Minot a few weeks before this was filmed. Had a fun few months there

That’s crazy I was there for structural maintenance at the time of this video!

I was there in 1983 for tech school. I was an aircraft electrician, later stationed at Pease AFB New Hampshire working on Kc-135 and FB-111.

This was taken just four months after I got out of the Air Force. I was at Chanute for fuels training from Feb-Apr of 1986.

@2:01 that P-51H is now at Robin's Air Force Base Museum, in Warner-Robins, GA.

A breath of Fresh Air watching this video. Great to see the base when it was still active compared to so many videos of it in deplorable condition after closure.

Went to Vehicle Maintenance school in the summer of 1976 Good times

Dad was a missile system analyst when retired in 65. While at mountain home I think he went to school at Chanute. If anyone can remember 64 65 a w.g. Logue that was my dad

AGE Instructor 89-93. Fun times. Thanks for the memories.

The airbase is called Chanute Field. My father in law served there in 1941 and I went through meteorology training in 1968.

Went to weather observer school there in 1955. Yikes. Then on to Westover AFB in Mass.

I went to Chanute in 1973 for fire training. Was the last class to graduate under a warrant officer. Did dome fishing around there. Alot of good times. From there to Grissom AFB for about a yr.

Me and my team was sent there TDY from McClellan AFB, California in the summer of 1990 to repair and replaced some old telephone cable's. Chanute to me was a one big base. I was shocked when they closed it down. Sad. That base had a lot of history to it. Thankfully I got a chance to visit there. Good video, Thanks.

This video takes me back to when Army bases looked like Army bases, Air Force bases looked like Air Force bases, Naval ports looked like they were still under construction, and Marine camps looked like exceptionally well managed minimum security prison complexes. Now all bases look like DoD approved; Housing Structure, Dormitory, Single-Occupancy, NCO, option one. Office Structure, Administrative, Personal Management, option three. Dining facility, Enlisted, option two. Industrial, Mechanical Workspace, option seven. Moral and Welfare, Area Beautification triangular, option four. Stock designs, stock color schemes, stock building designs, with stock building materials, zero personality, and zero cares for the “numbers” serving.

went to Wx Oberver”A” school i. 81 and Wx Forecasting scool “C” in 91. Some good times-thanks for posting.

Nice penstock valves

Was at Chanute from Sept. 1983 till Dec. 1983 for Fabrication and Parachute Rigger school and then June 1986 till Aug. 1986 for Fire protection school.

wounder how many gallons per minute are flowing out of the pipes

The Blue Angel was named "Lucy" in honor of Lucy Goff who was Program Director of the USO in Rantoul for decades.

Could have done a lot better with this vid.

MOIST

I was there in early 92 for fire school had a great time

I wish Rantoul still looked like this. Fucking shame.

I was stationed there from 1982 until closure and retirement in 1993. Had a lot of good times there. Did lots and lots of fishing around Illinois. A good safe place for kids to grow up.

I was stationed at Chanute from April 1971 to Feb 1975, first year civil engineering site development then 3 years in the comptroller office. great memories, 45 years ago, hard to believe

That would have been awesome if you got to go in the hangers and take video. It was nice seeing the place as it was before they let it go to crap.

the area is a whole lot different when I was stationed there in 1979.

Woah. I spotted the dorm I lived in for 6 weeks in Feb and March of 91 while I went to some Sheetmetal training there. Not being used to living in a military dorm (mostly hotels when I went TDY) I looked for the elevator to take me to the third floor. What elevator the nice girl at the front desk said? Oh yeh. That's right. Ok. Hoof it. Thank heaven I packed lightly with only essentials. It was cold and windy. Found the club and spent a good deal of time there when unoccupied. Nice room. Fairly new with a "jack and jill' shared bathroom. Got "yes sir'd" a couple of times when I told the young troops next door to pipe down.

AGE Instructor, 1980-1984. Best memories of my life. So sad to see all the videos on RUclips of what Chanute has become. I wish I'd never have seen them now.

Imagine getting a kidnapped and being put there

If u don't reply our comments.. Pls don't posts it in youtube

after leaving Okinawa in may 78, I was stationed at Chanute june 78-july 80 after which I headed to korea for the next 3.5 years....loved it....nice quiet peaceful town we always joked at how they rolled up the sidewalks at sunset....daddy longlegs, aka tsg Leroy legs coined the CORNPATCH ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD name for it....but, great place to be...many good friends there...57 north to exit 335 to visit dads family twice a month

Where was the B-36?

NDI school 1989, 3362nd

I was there summer and fall '75, for Fuels Specialist training, leaving BMT in early August and pulling details until training started in September, and leaving before the cold weather hit. A friend who was still there for AGE training showed me his parka and face mask he was issued since he was going to be there.

When I get up to take a piss

Where is this at?

No description of wtf is going on. Where is the water coming from? Where is it going? WTF is actually going on here? Can we see the inside?

Im a younger airman but currently at my base, we have Grissom Hall that derived from Chanute Grissom Hall as well. I visited it recently with my gf and got some pics inside the buildings. I love the history and heritage. Hope to find a flight patch somewhere in the buildings and add it to my uniform.

Our bus broke down in the corn fields I think around Feb 73?Texas was I. 50's when we left Lackland below 0 in Illinois...we had summer blues on our feet were frozen from unloading our duffle bags stacking in snow bank...I thought it was a AF psychologist test. Stayed in Wll barracks first 2 weeks...find out my dad entered AAF there during WWII and discharged there... surreal! So sad to watch RUclips On Broken Wings Chanute AFB...we were all contaminated lots of us sick or passed on .

Hi admin! I don't understand, why stop sequential 4 pumps? Can you help me? Thank you very much.

Watching water flow for ten minutes how boring

I was an air police officer assigned to chanted afb in the mid 60s it was huge I would rack up 80 or 90 miles per night patrol in my truck

Nice video and fun to watch. Take care now.

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I lived in those dorms while I was going through Aircraft Maintenance School (43151) in 1968.

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