wow.....i was in A 795...which was seen at the very beginning of this. this video reminds me of some of our MPs i held in my arms as they died in theater of operation. to see where we all shined our boots, laughed, went through shark attack, did KP, cried over "Dear John" or "Dear Jane" letters....waited in line for our 5 min. on the pay phones...where we drew our weapons for training...the building where we learned self defense.....the parking lots where we all learned to march...the parade field that we all hated at 0430 but loved on graduation day........HOOAH to all who never had their dog tags placed on the "Walls of Shame" and made it to the end. may those we lost never be too far from our memories....and those of us still here always be "here" for each other....
I arrived there in August 1978 and graduated MP School in January 1979. So many memories and the pride of being a MP. In 78 the barracks were only a few years old. Sad to see that it has become a Ghost Town. Probably the best experience of my life. CO. C, 2nd PLT, 11BN
Those barracks evoke incredible emotion for those of us who were young men. You may see empty buildings, but I see the faces and expressions and hear the voices of the Drill Sergeants and fellow troops. When we were handled physically, screamed every curse word imaginable, and broken down from our entitled lives and indoctrinated with the discipline necessary to live full and productive lives and recognize our resiliency. I see not peeling paint but a day room full of laughing young men eating pizza and watching Marcus Allen make one of the most amazing runs in Super Bowl history. You see concrete, and I see thousands of push ups. You see and empty office, and I see the company guide-on, which won every competition in the battalion that year. You see weed infested corridors, and I see standing in line at parade rest every morning before sunrise waiting for chow, after a lovely 5 mile run up Bains Gap. You see an empty room with with bars, and I see an arms room where I first laid my hands on an M-16. You see a locked door that says knock first, and I see an orderly room, where a Drill Sergeant refused to allow me to go to sick call and called my whiny, because I had a 104 degree fever and pneumonia that nearly took my life. Many things changed, both in the military, Fort McClellan, and the world we live in. But the boys who entered those buildings, came out men and won the Cold War, some of us Desert Storm, and fewer yet were older men leading others into Iraq for a second time. We may be old men now, but we shall always be warriors like those who were molded in those walls of concrete. Echo Company, 12 Military Police Bn 1983-84.
Fort McClellan is where I did basic training in February 1980..I will never forget it. I am. saddened to see it this way! Fort Ord, California is destroyed by vandals. This video is hard to watch. But I do t h and you for letting all of us see what it looks like today. So many memories! So many! (tears)
This breaks my heart. I was there in April 1989. I had no idea it was closed down. Lots of memories. Met some really great people. I also liked and respected my Drill Sergeant. Not easy to watch and it brought me to tears. Thank you for the video.
This is B787. Brought me to tears, upper left bay was mine. Watching it I could see the rows of wall lockers and racks. 24 years ago, but feels like yesterday. This was the home where I finally grew up
Thank you so very much for producing these videos. I went through basic training and AIT from Sept 81 - Jan 82. I remember these barracks. This Veterans Day I decided to look up as much information as possible. You exceeded my wildest imagination!
R Willy I was the last class to graduate from House of Pain, B787 in June of 1999, before base closure. My graduation ceremony doubled as a kind of base closure ceremony. My job each morning was to clean those sinks you tried using in the video. It's cool that they are still shiny, and that I was the last person to touch them before you. Thanks for the memories! Definely saw the ghost images and memories of all my friends as your walked through my old room. Pushing brooms, making beds, running the buffer machine. Getting yelled at, etc. Lol
I went to basic training here in 1980! Barracks were still segregated..men on top floor, women on bottom floor! What a beautiful time to. be in the Army in 1980! So Proud to. have served!
+vicki johnson Hi Vicki! My name is Kevin Paul and I went through basic & AIT there in April 1980 in Bravo Company. Do you remember Drill Sergeant Illot, Cutney, Glover, Gillette. This was a great time in my life as I was 18 and on my way to Germany.
+vicki johnson Hi Vicki! My name is Kevin Paul and I went through basic & AIT there in April 1980 in Bravo Company. Do you remember Drill Sergeant Illot, Cutney, Glover, Gillette. This was a great time in my life as I was 18 and on my way to Germany.
R. Willy, the "overnight room" you mentioned was the drill sergeants office. There were typically 3 drills assigned to a platoon, the carpeted area was where they had their desks. The shower and restroom was shared by all of them, male and female. The offices on the bottom floors were used by the senior drill sergeant and higher command and admin during the day, the CQ drill sergeant and two privates used them at night. The following morning the other drills came in, relived the night NCOIC, and went about their crazy day. We called each "room" a bay, most of the barracks housed the females in one bay, then the males by platoon in each bay by floor. Just a little history from a '97 graduate of B Co/787th MP and someone having been stationed there. Also, for those asking why we don't use these facilities for the homeless or homeless vets. This post was closed due to chemical leakage and other issues. It wouldn't be safe at this point unless the city if Anniston has deemed the water safe again.
This Post was closed due to the BRAC, which it was voted to close in all three rounds. It didn't have anything to due with the water. If the water was contaminated, it happened after the closure.
I was in the Marine Corps and I would like to thank all my fellow veterans for their service. What really saddens me though is that the government did this to a lot of places in 2000. I lived in Jacksonville, FL, and they closed down NAS Cecil Field, which was a master jet base. The old main gate went to crap, but the rest of the base was leased out right away. The Navy still uses it for touch and goes and other operations but it is mainly commercial now. A few years back, the Navy decided they wanted to reopen it as a master jet base and the city of Jacksonville shot it down. I'm glad that Fort McClellan is getting used now.
I remember hearing the platoons marching and singing their cadence. "Standing tall and looking good! (Standing tall and looking good!) Ought to be in Hollywood! (Ought to be in Hollywood!) Whoa whoa whooooa whoa! (Whoa whoa whooooa whoa!)"
Oh yes, those cadences echoed so beautifully through these barracks ... my fav was ... let the 4 winds blow (let em blow, let em blow) from the east to the west I love you the best ... etc...
Wow... I was there in 82. This video is hard to watch. After I left the military I didn't really think about it much. I'm 56 and looking back at pictures brings back memories. Ft. McClellan was a great school for great soldiers. Thank you for the memories
I was stationed here Feb 82 for basic and AIT. So many memories. Left in July. Your left right Charlie. Yo left yo left,now get in step!! Then off to Pirmasens Germany!! Out to the field in Germashiem Germany to guard missiles! 24 on 24 off for a year. Then onto Herlong Ca 84 another middle of nowhere base. Then finally made it to civilization. Presidio of San Francisco Ca. Great duty until we started working 9 days on and 1 day off. Goodtimes. Your left right Charlie 12!! Got out in 88. Now it is July 27th 2020 and it's time to retire and do some work!. On myself of course. 😂 Thank you for this post. Many memories!!
Echo 12 started in March then F-12 in April. I was In F-12 I started basic in April 82. I was in Pirmasens when I was kid at 12 years old...my dad was 1st Sergeant in the Banana building 546th Maint Co. Make sure you are getting regular check-ups my friend. A lot of are sick now from herbicides and other things used at Ft. McClellan.
I was in the women’s barracks Nov 1987 to March 1988. I remember everything. It made me cry to see the place in such condition. I remember where my rack was and everything. I remember the phone booths too. Thank you for bringing those memories back to me.
I was on the base (not these barracks) November 1987-April 1988! 2nd Battalion 48th infantry Delta Co. for Basic and Foxtrot Co. for AIT (I was 54B) @@cheryllocke9306
Thank You R Willy for the trip down Basic & AIT memory lane. I was there late 79 into 80. The building I was in was so new only 2 groups had gone through before us ... They sparkled! There were so many exactly alike in most ways so hard to tell if this might have been my building exactly but regardless it looks nearly the same (relatively) ... I see they finally got phone booths up in the barracks ... There were 2 for all 4 platoons in our company and the were out in the weather ... had to wait in lines to call home back then. I loved the little social areas we had ... so sad to see everything in such a neglected state. This sure does make me relive those days. Love & Peace to All
I was a Charlie 795 Mad Dog from the company of 90/91. There's a good bit of remodeling that must have taken place, if I stayed in those barracks. But if they are the same barracks, it would have been the Big Dogs one. I was a medical hold over from breaking my arm, so I saw first hand how platoon names changed from one class to the next. They knew back then that the base would be shut down, and used only by the Alabama National Guard. It looks like even those days are long over. As rotten as it was, those were still great times. I wish I could return to them. I little more than left McClellan, and I was headed for Desert Shield to become a war vet. Though I really doubt it remains, I had a small role in landscaping around the C795 company sign facing the road, with a few other hold overs. We ended up all over the base doing details. My favorite was the day we spent at the nearby church. We got to order pizza, and they ran out of things for us to do. So, I spent a good bit of time in front of a television in "the kids room", watching cartoons. Nice, quiet, solitary and peaceful.
Delta 787th MP Bn DIngo Dawg '91 OSUT - I remember our cadenece in the mess hall entry being so loud the ladies serving came out to the DS and asked us to hold back because they couldn't hear themselves talk in the mess line. I'll never forget this place. "One highly motivated, trully dedicated, Dingo Dawn into the dining facility Drill Sergeant !!!" Thanks for the memories R Willy!!
Thanks for the video.... I was there from Nov 88- to April 89 Bravo 787. Drill Sgt Gerowski... I still remember him well, whipped this South Side kid from Chicago into shape really quick.
It's all fenced off now when I visited Ft McClellan in the fall of 2020. I did OSUT there in 1984. The whole post is a shadow of its former glory, It was very sad to see. Thank you for your video.
I was stationed there with the headquarters battalion as permanent party from 89 to the beginning of 92 and would do anything from run correspondence all over the base to driving the battalion commander around base. There were some really nice older buildings on that base. Being permanent party on a training base was a wonderful experience. It was fun and rewarding to see all the trainees go through and go from being scared to gaining confidence. Shorty after transferring there I went down to get a soda and encountered a drill sergeant for the first time since my basic and A.I.T. at Ft. Jackson and even though it had been a few years it was still intimidating to be sternly questioned about where I was going. 😀
I’ve always hoped that some of the artists would be able to see their work again! Most of the art was painted over as time went by. It’s so cool that yours is one of the ones that has been preserved, for now.
If you ever want a narrator for this or a story, let me know. I drank from that fountain, I used that toilet, I climbed those stairs. I could map it out like I was there yesterday. I left in 1988. We all got shipped to Panama.
In the first few minutes of the video when you're on the first floor, the doorway that you peeked into was the amory and it held all of our M-16s, Colt 45, 38 Cal and 9mm weapons.
@@dahlgrenjr They moved the chemical school over where the old WAC area was which is now owned by FEMA. They got stuck with the nasty mess we left over there.
Very cool. Went to basic there in the 80's, and we were there yesterday. Sadly, its been fenced up, and most of the old post as most of us remember it is blocked off. Can't even drive to most of the east post anymore. Not sure why all the ROADS are blocked off, but it would have been nice to get close to the barracks I slept in. Anyway, brought back alot of memories. Thanks! Don Heichel - Junk yard dogs
I did my Basic there in 1984 when I was 24...Alpha Co. this is truly breaking my heart seeing it like this, and yet I am reliving it all over again...all of the emotions of long ago when there and now, the memories...PT, our resounding voices singing cadence... all of it.... When I had heard some years ago that it had closed, it was like losing someone dear...I hope it is being guarded to some extent as I couldn't bear to see it sprawled with graffiti and trash.. I had one day hoped to return and visit with my children, walk the steps once again where all of us soldiers marched, where it all began....Thank you for making these videos, a way to share with them, and relive again and again...
Aww someone is really going to appreciate you recording their artwork once they discover this video. It looks like it was all mp. I think they tore down the chemical barracks although they looked very similar to this complex. We were in the furthest southeast corner by the road with the little catholic chapel. Too bad I can't upload pics here. More specifically, the southeast corner of the chemical barracks. There were marine barracks that were structured exactly like ours going south down that same little road. I have yet to see a video of our (Charlie) barracks yet, sadly. Although many have came close. We had our twenty year reunion last September on the very dates we arrived to Fort McClellan back in 1994, only we held the reunion at Leonardwood considering there would be more to do and see related to chemical. I would have loved to have went back to McClellan for it, but it just wouldn't have worked out as well. :( Twenty years have gone by in a flash. This really brings back the memories. The things that were so important back then. The boyfriends and girlfriends, the barracks scandals (haha), the DS's we loved and the DS's we hated (but love them now.) Going back to a place like that and the way that it looks, it's like a still shot of our lives, a memorial, 'We were once here. We came from every place, every corner of practically the world, to learn, to serve, to do our duty. We struggled. We cried. All gave some. Some gave all. But in a memory, in this place, you'll always find each of us....." Thank you for recording this. Rest in peace Chiquita.
Went to Basic training at Ft. Mclellan in '73, as a WAC. I was 19 at the time, feels sad to see the place abandoned. Went on to Ft. Jackson, SC and then Germany...the rest is history.....would do it all again. Thank you for this video
Thanks for this video. Basic and MP AIT 1984. I really miss this place and it makes me sad to see the disrepair, but I will be forever grateful and humbled by the men and women I trained with and served with.
In 1985- 1986, this last building you were in was F-12, my platoon was top floor to the left being 3rd platoon. Was pretty cool to see our old bay. The canvas bag you found was the Dispatch & PMCS book bag.
I lived there. On all sides. The old WAC area, the old MP area AND the new MP sapce in the film I was in the first of the new buildings and we didn't have to wax and buff. You're making me cry!
I was in one of the last built of these new buildings '79 ... Our drill sergeants made us wax and buff anyway ... but the whole place was so beautiful back then ... and I loved running the buffer!
I was there from october 1995 to february 1996. Bravo 787th Fourth Platoon!! This video brought me tears and a lot of good memories!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!! ♥
I was on the US Marine detachment there for MP school from August 93 to April 94. It’s crazy to see the base look like that!! I had a lot of fun there. Sad to see it go to waste. But I now have people that I work with on the fire department that go there for Homeland Security training.
Echo 10, Reception station, October 20 ,82. assigned to E-10 about October 26,...... Finished basic around Christmas, Started AIT In January, Graduated MP School about March 1 or 2, Arrived at Fort Campbell Kentucky and assigned as a line duty garrison MP at HHC LEA . worked my first gate about 3 days later, (Gate 1A), First patrol, area 2 night shift about 10 days after that. 10-18 last 10-15 your 10 22........
I was there October, 1983 to April, 1984. Got recycled in Basic. Got THE worst flu ever had in my life there. They took us to an isolation place till we recovered. I was in Alpha Company to start and finished with Delta. Went straight to Schofield Barracks after OSUT 95B. Great memories! So sad to see it empty. So many homeless vets could live there.
Thank you for this video. Although the barracks I was assigned to back in early 1976 are long gone, it still brings back old memories of being stationed at Ft. McClellan.
Wow, I can't believe how powerful this is. I was 18, shining my boots and running my ass around those buildings. Blows me away. Thanks for posting. What a trip.
If one could get in and take a peek. I lived in a similar barracks in Tx for a couple months and we'd hide all kinds of crap up there in the top bunk! Many "unmentionables"!
Wow, thank you for recording the art. This wasn't my company, but that was all my "era" - one of the last few classes to go through, but not the last class. It makes me wonder, what became of those Privates and Drill SGTs named in the art. All of that art, was done in the *spare* time of the Privates - which wasn't much. Usually on Saturday evenings and Sundays. We thought our Drills, were gods - even though most of them, weren't much older than we were.
I was there in '91.... I remember taking 5 min power naps on the floor in the bay in front of a window... To this day when I see a cat find that little sliver of sun light in a room it takes me back....nice job, Thank you
Thanks for this video! This was where I went to basic training (1997). Sure brought back a lot of memories. We were one of the last groups to go through before they shut the doors, too.
E-10 MP OSUT, Jan 1979. Disobeyed and got married to another private in my platoon during school. Crazy time, crazy memories. Thank you for posting, brought tears of joy and sadness. Such a long time ago.
I was there nov 87-apr 88, D 787. I remember our DS, Sgt Virginia Williams and SSG Timothy McGrath. He was 11b. DS Williams was awesome, tough as nails. Sure would like to see what she's up to! -Priscilla (Emery)
Hello. I was in D Co. 787th from August to December, in 1997. It’s very hard to imagine Ft. McClellan in this deteriorated state. A friend of mine from high school was in B Co. 795th, and got there a few weeks before I did. All the places I’d been, and all the things I’ve done since, I still hold my experiences here as some of the most valuable, as much for becoming a better person, as much as becoming a soldier. We trained with A2’s, and to this day I can shoot those better than the M4 I had for my time in the PA Guard. It just speaks to the people that were there and the pride we all took in being able to participate in the thing that is the Army.
Yall didn't have a little 17 yr old tooth pick from Mississippi in the squad that kept on getting smoked or getting the squad smoked did ya? Just curious, I was there from June to August for basic, had to leave early.
@@firedog9113 Why did you have to leave early? We had a girl that had to leave early due to some medical thing, which was strange. I honestly don’t recall. It’s definitely possible. D Co. had some problems, and the one that stands out the most, was when we were at the grenade range. We were marching up to the range, and two of the dudes in different squads got into a fight while we were marching. Drill instructors were at a meeting, or something, I can’t recall specifically. One of the dudes ended up punching his locker when we got back and broke his hand. He got to stay there when the rest of us left on Dec. 17th, and he got recycled into the next class that started in January. I’ve been trying to find one of the guys I was with there, but haven’t had much luck. I know he went to Ft. Leavenworth as his first duty assignment, and I talked to him a few times after our time at Ft McClellan. He was a good dude.
I cracked my chest bone in 4 placed some how, drills said I was pushing to hard, can't spell it right due to brain injury now. It was a medical discharge.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Brings back memories... basic with D-12 and then AIT at the chemical school summer of 1982. Returned in Summer of 1984 for the NCO technical course
I was there from Jan to May 1986. We were the last to use the 10th, 11th and 12th battalion designations (I was in F-12), before they went to the triple numbers (787, etc). This video is eerie to watch, but it brought back a lot of memories. My wife and I sat and watched it, and she was comparing it to her Air Force training barracks. (We had something better than the Air Force....we had those individual showers, whereas she had to use open bay showers. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) Thank you for making this video.
We called them the Hiltons in 1983, they were home to the 11th and 12th Combat M.P.Corps. They were fairly new in Aug. of 83, I was assigned to the 12th BN, Echo Co. 4th Plt. From your video I think you were 12th BN Foxtrot Co area, which was next door to me. Never thought I would ever see the place again until I saw your video, a lot of memories of another time and place. Watching your video I could hear so many different voices from my youth in my head, ghosts saying remember us and what we did here. A first Sgt. who had won the CMH in a war all but forgotten who wanted to help a bunch of kids who wanted to be soldiers. It now looks like a ghost town, no more running and marching; no more shouting kids yelling "Men at war, kill, men at war, kill, late at night when you're sleeping Echo12 comes a creeping all around." My God, we knew nothing.
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I was in Foxtrot Co. right next to you. Began basic Aug 83 and finished just in time for Christmas exodus. I can't remember his name but I remember saluting that sgt with the CMH. If I recall it was your company which had females, whereas ours had none. We thought they were all dogs for the first few weeks and then they started looking really good! This video sure did bring back the memories!
Wow... not sure what all to say but.... thank you very much! I would of never thought in my lifetime I would feel anything looking back at this place and I definitely just got flooded with a phenomenal amount of memories & emotions. Many of us youngsters grew and learned more in a mere four months there, than most kids do in many years or even decades. Your time is appreciatted more than you could ever know. Todd Dross - February 1984, 10th Battalion, Charlie Company, 1st Platoon Below are a few names I hope get found in a search engine that I haven't heard from for more than 30 years... Fellow soldiers: Michael Blas Larry Bostic David Boyce Bill Burke Duane Cain Michael Church Anthony Clark Kraig Conn Michael Cooke Dave Cupp James Demarco William Dillard Carl Drouillard Staff: Commander CPT Hoehne Senoir Drill SFC Burt Drill SFC Cox Drill SSG Cunningham * Drill SSG Cady * Drill SSG Avery Drill SSG Epley * Drill SSG Anderson Thanks again R. Willy!!!!
I was also in the military and I would hope someone out there would do the same thing and film my old barracks whenever they become abandoned in the future. Glad you found my videos. Also, if you're one facebook, look for the "Fort McClellan Grads" Group. You may find some old friends on there.
@@twinjugstodd I was there from May 1983 to Sep 1983. I had SSG Epley and SSG Mabe. SFC Duncan was SR Drill Sgt. Cpt Stephanie Hoehne was the Commander. SSG Avery and SSG Rimmer were also there...All the Way and Then Some!!! Thanks for the memories!!
I did Basic Training there as a WAC in January 1975. As a trainee, I had no clue as to the size of the base. Thanks for the videos; I haven’t thought of Ft. Clellan in years until I came across the videos.
I was stationed here in 87. I remember these barracks because I went to (FTC) before going on to my basic training unit. Co E 348th battalion...... All women
I remember polishing those floors in the middle of the night and purposely smashing the polish machine into sleeping bunks. Man, thanks for the memories. I got my first tattoo and first lap dance in alabama.
I was in Bravo Company for basic and AIT back in June 1979. The place was brand new and spotless. The trees, scrubs and lawn were well maintained. The place is hardly recognizable now, except for the buildings. Brings back so many memories. I just can’t believe that they let this place decay the way it has. Thank you so much. Very sad to see the place like this.
+E M. Yes. Same barracks. This is the 787 area. The 795 barracks look almost the same as these and were a block up the road. You can view those other barracks in my other Fort McClellan videos.. They were all abandoned in 1999.
+Rifleman Moore Is "fairly recently abandoned" meaning within the past 16+ years? It was closed by the Army/DOD in 1999. I don't understand this "787" (etc) thing....I understand this was the 12th MP BN barracks. I was with F-12 from Jan-May 1986.
I was C-12 from April to August 1985. Wow, this brought back some memories even though Charlie Company was structured differently since the 3rd Floor was for the female platoon. Those landings are all the same. Being one of the oldest MP Trainees I lead my group as acting SGT. I remember when the Senior Drill SGT gave the command for 1st Platoon to lead the company to chow. The acting SGT couldn't remember the command in order; same with 2nd Platoon then 3rd Platoon. Then it was my turn to take the command to chow. I shouted "Company Attention" Then I took each Platoon to chow with commands along with my 4th Platoon; we had some great females in my company. That was a day to always remember. From then on some of the females called me Colonel and I would just laugh. I was older you see and I took everything to heart and what a blessing that day. I had already completed college and was just looking forward to leaving that area. I was only put down for push-ups once in AIT and that was no fun...LOL Graduation Day... Germany here I come! After that I was given the Presidential Physical Fitness Award at Fort Huachuca AZ. Along with other achievements which are all great memories and stories now for my sons and grandchildren. Hard to believe grandmama was in the military and believe me I have shocked many along the journey.
I was born there Noble Army Hospital 1967 Ft. McClellan, Alabama my Dad Army Sgt. served two years on base 1966-69. thanks for the video. I lived in Anniston, Ala 1.5 years.
Funny to think that this was home to many of us going through Basic and AIT... sad to see it this way, as the memories were so full of life for us. I'm glad I'm not alone. E-12, May - Sept 1985 OSUT.
I was in 1st Platoon Cold Steel D-Co Dragons 82nd. I was in the last cycle of Delta in the summer of 95. It became Alpha Co Outlaws the very next cycle.
Just want to say, thank you for taking me down memory lane! I was one of the bull dogs and when you went into that, I got a lot of flash backs! In case you don't know which one i'm talking about, it's the bull dog holding the gun. Really remember a lot about that time. Military Police! Thank you so much for painting the memories and God Bless!
@ You didn't have the ice cream machines? A good and bad thing I suppose ... I guess My company was lucky, also, that we were never given just 2 minutes to eat ... but we were given 10 minutes some times while 30 was standard. We did have one extremely, "mean" drill sergeant, S. Allen, who was so mean they actually got rid of her at some point. She was our only female sergeant ... and while the rules had changed so that they were no longer allowed to physically ... touch us ...slap, hit, kick ...ect ... she slapped a girl so hard she left her hand print on her face for a week. She also put a guy down, for push ups on sharp big rocks and while he did them she threw those big pointed rocks at him ... hard ... we were all glad to see her go. (our company had 4 platoons ... 3 all men and the forth was half men half women). Only one of our drill sergeants were "nice" and I also think he was the only one who didn't screw around with as many of us as he could ... I wonder what basic training is like these days???
Ty 1991, i was in Hooty's kids. sad to see this but brings back so many memories.i was only there for a little while. dropped out but i still feel grateful for my experience.
I went to MP school and basic in August to December 1985 in C12. there were no phones at the front of the Bay then. The room to the right of the DS office was a day room and not allowed to be used until the very end of MP School. I wonder if the Bay with individual showers was a Female Bay. The Male Bay I was in had a large open shower. Thanks for the tour!
I agree. I did my time there March through July of 84 D11. It took me a while to figure out what the pay phones were doing up in the barracks. It is sad to see them all in such a state of disrepair. I remember full well how spotless they were back in the day. Finally yes, showers for us were one long open room. C11 had a platoon of females go through a week ahead of us we never heard what Charlie 11 was like in terms of their barracks.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing. So sad that they closed the Fort. Sad to see how it looks now. From doing PT under the overhangs on the lower level, waiting in line to use the pay phones, Mail Call!!! Private showers. Great memories of the time I was there in 1986. Charlie 40 Wardogs!!
How hard would it be to turn places like that into a redevelopment program for vets that fell through the cracks of society? Redo a couple lines of a budget bill for a social security opt in clause on people who would volunteer to go there.
Thanks for sharing your footage. I had the pleasure of being both Delta 787 & 795 in 1995. I'll have to dig up my photos from my time there and compare. FYI, female recruits lived on the top floor, it was almost as hot as Iraq in the morning and our A/C didn't work as well as it should have. "Of the troops, for the troops!"
Thank you for the video. D787 MP BN on the other side of this bldg Jun-Oct 1987 Plenty of memories and emotions stirred up by this. Proud to have become a man here and disturbed but what it has been allowed to become. Glad to know it is being repurposed but had plans of returning for a visit which doesn't seem likely now.
wow.....i was in A 795...which was seen at the very beginning of this. this video reminds me of some of our MPs i held in my arms as they died in theater of operation. to see where we all shined our boots, laughed, went through shark attack, did KP, cried over "Dear John" or "Dear Jane" letters....waited in line for our 5 min. on the pay phones...where we drew our weapons for training...the building where we learned self defense.....the parking lots where we all learned to march...the parade field that we all hated at 0430 but loved on graduation day........HOOAH to all who never had their dog tags placed on the "Walls of Shame" and made it to the end. may those we lost never be too far from our memories....and those of us still here always be "here" for each other....
To all those who paid the ultimate price for the love of our beloved Republic!
I was in A Co. 795th from Jan - May of ‘93.
I arrived there in August 1978 and graduated MP School in January 1979. So many memories and the pride of being a MP. In 78 the barracks were only a few years old. Sad to see that it has become a Ghost Town. Probably the best experience of my life. CO. C, 2nd PLT, 11BN
Those barracks evoke incredible emotion for those of us who were young men. You may see empty buildings, but I see the faces and expressions and hear the voices of the Drill Sergeants and fellow troops. When we were handled physically, screamed every curse word imaginable, and broken down from our entitled lives and indoctrinated with the discipline necessary to live full and productive lives and recognize our resiliency. I see not peeling paint but a day room full of laughing young men eating pizza and watching Marcus Allen make one of the most amazing runs in Super Bowl history. You see concrete, and I see thousands of push ups. You see and empty office, and I see the company guide-on, which won every competition in the battalion that year. You see weed infested corridors, and I see standing in line at parade rest every morning before sunrise waiting for chow, after a lovely 5 mile run up Bains Gap. You see an empty room with with bars, and I see an arms room where I first laid my hands on an M-16. You see a locked door that says knock first, and I see an orderly room, where a Drill Sergeant refused to allow me to go to sick call and called my whiny, because I had a 104 degree fever and pneumonia that nearly took my life. Many things changed, both in the military, Fort McClellan, and the world we live in. But the boys who entered those buildings, came out men and won the Cold War, some of us Desert Storm, and fewer yet were older men leading others into Iraq for a second time. We may be old men now, but we shall always be warriors like those who were molded in those walls of concrete. Echo Company, 12 Military Police Bn 1983-84.
+Milton Melcher I hear you except the pizza thing and watching tv Back in 83 84 there was no pizza or tv in my osut training. Things changed I guess.
+Milton Melcher
Well said Brother!
Be well keep in touch Randy
I remember kiwi polishing the steps by hand and a brush that place taught me so much
Echo 11 11th Batallion 06/80-09/80!
TV? TV! I DON’T KNOW NUTHIN BOUT NO STINKING TVV’S!
Fort McClellan is where I did basic training in February 1980..I will never forget it. I am. saddened to see it this way! Fort Ord, California is destroyed by vandals. This video is hard to watch. But I do t h and you for letting all of us see what it looks like today. So many memories! So many! (tears)
cool. I did basic there in '79. then on to ford ord. lotta memories!
May 81, Ft.Gordon, Ft.Polk and Bremerhaven WG.
Shed no tears for that hell hole.
@@jazzer770 I was probably literally behind you. I too went to "Planet Ord" after Mac. 7th and 54th MP companies..:-)
I was there too during that same time period. Oct 79 to March 1980.
This breaks my heart. I was there in April 1989. I had no idea it was closed down. Lots of memories. Met some really great people. I also liked and respected my Drill Sergeant. Not easy to watch and it brought me to tears. Thank you for the video.
This is B787. Brought me to tears, upper left bay was mine. Watching it I could see the rows of wall lockers and racks. 24 years ago, but feels like yesterday. This was the home where I finally grew up
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Were you there in the summer of 90' ???
Duane Max I was there Jan-June 92. 23 years ago, my math was a little off!
Duane Max 795th alpha company 1990... M.P. school
I was B787 in '86. There was a Drill Sgt Beasley there, reminded me of Charles Barkley later.
+martypd579 B787 1988 here
Thank you so very much for producing these videos. I went through basic training and AIT from Sept 81 - Jan 82. I remember these barracks. This Veterans Day I decided to look up as much information as possible. You exceeded my wildest imagination!
I'm glad you found my videos of Fort McClellan! This is the exact reason why I made these. Thank you
hey me too,, Flint
R Willy I was the last class to graduate from House of Pain, B787 in June of 1999, before base closure. My graduation ceremony doubled as a kind of base closure ceremony. My job each morning was to clean those sinks you tried using in the video. It's cool that they are still shiny, and that I was the last person to touch them before you. Thanks for the memories! Definely saw the ghost images and memories of all my friends as your walked through my old room. Pushing brooms, making beds, running the buffer machine. Getting yelled at, etc. Lol
All these soldiers in the comments better stop reminiscing and get their barracks squared away before DS makes the walls sweat.
I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks for recording this. Brought back so many memories, breaks my heart to see it abandoned.
Thank you! I have several other Fort McClellan videos on my channel.
Mary Kaye Waterson I
@@rwilly I will have to check those out!
Very sad
@@rwilly would I be able to walk around here safely? I'm new here.
I went to basic training here in 1980! Barracks were still segregated..men on top floor, women on bottom floor! What a beautiful time to. be in the Army in 1980! So Proud to. have served!
+vicki johnson Hi Vicki! My name is Kevin Paul and I went through basic & AIT there in April 1980 in Bravo Company. Do you remember Drill Sergeant Illot, Cutney, Glover, Gillette. This was a great time in my life as I was 18 and on my way to Germany.
+vicki johnson Hi Vicki! My name is Kevin Paul and I went through basic & AIT there in April 1980 in Bravo Company. Do you remember Drill Sergeant Illot, Cutney, Glover, Gillette. This was a great time in my life as I was 18 and on my way to Germany.
I was there too in July of 1980 - Company E-12 2nd Platoon - "Echo 12, Leads the Way!"
R. Willy, the "overnight room" you mentioned was the drill sergeants office. There were typically 3 drills assigned to a platoon, the carpeted area was where they had their desks. The shower and restroom was shared by all of them, male and female. The offices on the bottom floors were used by the senior drill sergeant and higher command and admin during the day, the CQ drill sergeant and two privates used them at night. The following morning the other drills came in, relived the night NCOIC, and went about their crazy day. We called each "room" a bay, most of the barracks housed the females in one bay, then the males by platoon in each bay by floor.
Just a little history from a '97 graduate of B Co/787th MP and someone having been stationed there.
Also, for those asking why we don't use these facilities for the homeless or homeless vets. This post was closed due to chemical leakage and other issues. It wouldn't be safe at this point unless the city if Anniston has deemed the water safe again.
Hey Stranger. Just found this video and showing it to Mari. Looks like the 787th areas. I was D-795
When I was there in 06/81, I was assigned to B-11.
This Post was closed due to the BRAC, which it was voted to close in all three rounds. It didn't have anything to due with the water. If the water was contaminated, it happened after the closure.
where was the armory? did they show that in the video?
787 Alpha Co. 96
I was in the Marine Corps and I would like to thank all my fellow veterans for their service. What really saddens me though is that the government did this to a lot of places in 2000. I lived in Jacksonville, FL, and they closed down NAS Cecil Field, which was a master jet base. The old main gate went to crap, but the rest of the base was leased out right away. The Navy still uses it for touch and goes and other operations but it is mainly commercial now. A few years back, the Navy decided they wanted to reopen it as a master jet base and the city of Jacksonville shot it down. I'm glad that Fort McClellan is getting used now.
I remember hearing the platoons marching and singing their cadence. "Standing tall and looking good! (Standing tall and looking good!) Ought to be in Hollywood! (Ought to be in Hollywood!) Whoa whoa whooooa whoa! (Whoa whoa whooooa whoa!)"
Oh yes, those cadences echoed so beautifully through these barracks ... my fav was ... let the 4 winds blow (let em blow, let em blow) from the east to the west I love you the best ... etc...
yes the echo was great!
@@LoveAndPeaceOccurs that's my favorite cadence too - I still sing in sometimes when I'm working out
@@EveDahlSwag Me too! Just wish I could get in as good shape as I was back then (end of 1979 into 1980)... alas.
I was here for basic training and MP school in 1978. Brings back a lot of memories...Thanks!
I was there then
Mud puppies
D-11
I was there July-Oct 1978
Wow... I was there in 82. This video is hard to watch. After I left the military I didn't really think about it much. I'm 56 and looking back at pictures brings back memories. Ft. McClellan was a great school for great soldiers. Thank you for the memories
O also was there in 82, I think it was June.
I was housed in bravo. Aug 82
I was there in 82. Can't remember the company, platoon, or anything except SFC Saucedo.
I was there in 82' Are you co. A. 11th BN ?
I was stationed here Feb 82 for basic and AIT. So many memories. Left in July. Your left right Charlie. Yo left yo left,now get in step!! Then off to Pirmasens Germany!! Out to the field in Germashiem Germany to guard missiles! 24 on 24 off for a year. Then onto Herlong Ca 84 another middle of nowhere base. Then finally made it to civilization. Presidio of San Francisco Ca. Great duty until we started working 9 days on and 1 day off. Goodtimes. Your left right Charlie 12!! Got out in 88. Now it is July 27th 2020 and it's time to retire and do some work!. On myself of course. 😂 Thank you for this post. Many memories!!
Echo 12 started in March then F-12 in April. I was In F-12 I started basic in April 82. I was in Pirmasens when I was kid at 12 years old...my dad was 1st Sergeant in the Banana building 546th Maint Co. Make sure you are getting regular check-ups my friend. A lot of are sick now from herbicides and other things used at Ft. McClellan.
I was in the women’s barracks Nov 1987 to March 1988. I remember everything. It made me cry to see the place in such condition. I remember where my rack was and everything. I remember the phone booths too. Thank you for bringing those memories back to me.
I don’t remember what company I had. I’m 51 years old and can only remember a little.
I was on the base (not these barracks) November 1987-April 1988! 2nd Battalion 48th infantry Delta Co. for Basic and Foxtrot Co. for AIT (I was 54B) @@cheryllocke9306
Thank You R Willy for the trip down Basic & AIT memory lane. I was there late 79 into 80. The building I was in was so new only 2 groups had gone through before us ... They sparkled! There were so many exactly alike in most ways so hard to tell if this might have been my building exactly but regardless it looks nearly the same (relatively) ... I see they finally got phone booths up in the barracks ... There were 2 for all 4 platoons in our company and the were out in the weather ... had to wait in lines to call home back then. I loved the little social areas we had ... so sad to see everything in such a neglected state. This sure does make me relive those days. Love & Peace to All
I was a Charlie 795 Mad Dog from the company of 90/91. There's a good bit of remodeling that must have taken place, if I stayed in those barracks. But if they are the same barracks, it would have been the Big Dogs one. I was a medical hold over from breaking my arm, so I saw first hand how platoon names changed from one class to the next.
They knew back then that the base would be shut down, and used only by the Alabama National Guard. It looks like even those days are long over.
As rotten as it was, those were still great times. I wish I could return to them.
I little more than left McClellan, and I was headed for Desert Shield to become a war vet.
Though I really doubt it remains, I had a small role in landscaping around the C795 company sign facing the road, with a few other hold overs. We ended up all over the base doing details. My favorite was the day we spent at the nearby church. We got to order pizza, and they ran out of things for us to do. So, I spent a good bit of time in front of a television in "the kids room", watching cartoons. Nice, quiet, solitary and peaceful.
They didn't vote to close McClellan until 1995. It closed May 20, 1999.
I was in one of the last classes through. June of '98 Chemical Corps. The memories this video brings back are crazy.
Me too Nov of '98 Chemical Corp as well!!!
Chemical Corps, did that include smoke recon in the group. I remember hearing there were 3 MP barracks and 1 for all others like smoke and Chemical.
@@firedog9113 Yeah, we had Smoke platoons with us as well. Yeah, this video was very bittersweet.
You are bringing back forgotten memories from 34 years ago . incredible
Remember the disco hut and Baines Gap? '85 graduate here.
Delta 787th MP Bn DIngo Dawg '91 OSUT - I remember our cadenece in the mess hall entry being so loud the ladies serving came out to the DS and asked us to hold back because they couldn't hear themselves talk in the mess line. I'll never forget this place. "One highly motivated, trully dedicated, Dingo Dawn into the dining facility Drill Sergeant !!!" Thanks for the memories R Willy!!
Thanks for the video.... I was there from Nov 88- to April 89 Bravo 787. Drill Sgt Gerowski... I still remember him well, whipped this South Side kid from Chicago into shape really quick.
It's all fenced off now when I visited Ft McClellan in the fall of 2020. I did OSUT there in 1984. The whole post is a shadow of its former glory, It was very sad to see. Thank you for your video.
I was Stationed there from August 1984 through January 1986!
Student/Trainee Military Personnel Office - Enlisted Promotions Specialist
I was stationed there with the headquarters battalion as permanent party from 89 to the beginning of 92 and would do anything from run correspondence all over the base to driving the battalion commander around base. There were some really nice older buildings on that base. Being permanent party on a training base was a wonderful experience. It was fun and rewarding to see all the trainees go through and go from being scared to gaining confidence. Shorty after transferring there I went down to get a soda and encountered a drill sergeant for the first time since my basic and A.I.T. at Ft. Jackson and even though it had been a few years it was still intimidating to be sternly questioned about where I was going. 😀
I was there sept97-feb98 ,C co. 795 the Mighty Bulldogs , seeing the condition of these barracks is just heart breaking !
Company A, 40th MP BN, 1988. I'm actually still in touch with my drill sergeants 32 years later.
Which one?
C795 graduated June 98. Great memories. Gave me chills
@11:20 I did that doorway painting. Never imagined seeing my Door again. So many memories from that place. Sad to see it that way.
I’ve always hoped that some of the artists would be able to see their work again! Most of the art was painted over as time went by. It’s so cool that yours is one of the ones that has been preserved, for now.
Very cool, thank you for posting these.
If you ever want a narrator for this or a story, let me know. I drank from that fountain, I used that toilet, I climbed those stairs. I could map it out like I was there yesterday. I left in 1988. We all got shipped to Panama.
Yes! I can even tell you which shower stall was mine!
I helped paint a "Wolfhounds" mural. Did you see it? Does it still exist?
In the first few minutes of the video when you're on the first floor, the doorway that you peeked into was the amory and it held all of our M-16s, Colt 45, 38 Cal and 9mm weapons.
We were MPs. On the other side of the PX, they did biological warfare training.
@@dahlgrenjr They moved the chemical school over where the old WAC area was which is now owned by FEMA. They got stuck with the nasty mess we left over there.
Very cool. Went to basic there in the 80's, and we were there yesterday. Sadly, its been fenced up, and most of the old post as most of us remember it is blocked off. Can't even drive to most of the east post anymore. Not sure why all the ROADS are blocked off, but it would have been nice to get close to the barracks I slept in. Anyway, brought back alot of memories. Thanks! Don Heichel - Junk yard dogs
I did my Basic there in 1984 when I was 24...Alpha Co. this is truly breaking my heart seeing it like this, and yet I am reliving it all over again...all of the emotions of long ago when there and now, the memories...PT, our resounding voices singing cadence... all of it.... When I had heard some years ago that it had closed, it was like losing someone dear...I hope it is being guarded to some extent as I couldn't bear to see it sprawled with graffiti and trash.. I had one day hoped to return and visit with my children, walk the steps once again where all of us soldiers marched, where it all began....Thank you for making these videos, a way to share with them, and relive again and again...
I did my basic there 84-85 also alpha company
Aww someone is really going to appreciate you recording their artwork once they discover this video. It looks like it was all mp. I think they tore down the chemical barracks although they looked very similar to this complex. We were in the furthest southeast corner by the road with the little catholic chapel. Too bad I can't upload pics here. More specifically, the southeast corner of the chemical barracks. There were marine barracks that were structured exactly like ours going south down that same little road. I have yet to see a video of our (Charlie) barracks yet, sadly. Although many have came close. We had our twenty year reunion last September on the very dates we arrived to Fort McClellan back in 1994, only we held the reunion at Leonardwood considering there would be more to do and see related to chemical. I would have loved to have went back to McClellan for it, but it just wouldn't have worked out as well. :( Twenty years have gone by in a flash. This really brings back the memories. The things that were so important back then. The boyfriends and girlfriends, the barracks scandals (haha), the DS's we loved and the DS's we hated (but love them now.) Going back to a place like that and the way that it looks, it's like a still shot of our lives, a memorial, 'We were once here. We came from every place, every corner of practically the world, to learn, to serve, to do our duty. We struggled. We cried. All gave some. Some gave all. But in a memory, in this place, you'll always find each of us....." Thank you for recording this. Rest in peace Chiquita.
Yo, chemical Corp 1997. We were the last or second to last training cycle for 54b
Cold steel Charlie. Fit to fight, trained to kill, drive on drill sergeant drive on. Hooah. " I was there August 96 to January 97 for NBC osut
I have pictures
Went to Basic training at Ft. Mclellan in '73, as a WAC. I was 19 at the time, feels sad to see the place abandoned. Went on to Ft. Jackson, SC and then Germany...the rest is history.....would do it all again. Thank you for this video
I was stationed there in 72 went on to Ft Dix very sad
Thanks for this video. Basic and MP AIT 1984. I really miss this place and it makes me sad to see the disrepair, but I will be forever grateful and humbled by the men and women I trained with and served with.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. These buildings were leased last month so they may be repurposing them very soon.
In 1985- 1986, this last building you were in was F-12, my platoon was top floor to the left being 3rd platoon. Was pretty cool to see our old bay. The canvas bag you found was the Dispatch & PMCS book bag.
Did my training there in 1993. Thanks for the memories
Was there for Basic and AIT, Charlie 12, 1981. To all my MP Brothers gone now. RIP. You are remembered 95 Bravo forever!
We were there about the same time.....I was Alpha 12, and started in October of 81
I was Bravo 12. Oct. 1981.
"We'll protect, we'll defend, best by far Bravo 10." A long time ago in 1981.
95Bravo...wow thanks
I also was a guest for 8 months in 84,
54 ECHO school. Had a lot of fun there football crazy people. But was nicely acclimated.
I lived there. On all sides. The old WAC area, the old MP area AND the new MP sapce in the film I was in the first of the new buildings and we didn't have to wax and buff. You're making me cry!
I was there in 1977
I was there in 1977 also.
I was in one of the last built of these new buildings '79 ... Our drill sergeants made us wax and buff anyway ... but the whole place was so beautiful back then ... and I loved running the buffer!
I was there from october 1995 to february 1996. Bravo 787th Fourth Platoon!! This video brought me tears and a lot of good memories!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!! ♥
I was on the US Marine detachment there for MP school from August 93 to April 94. It’s crazy to see the base look like that!! I had a lot of fun there. Sad to see it go to waste. But I now have people that I work with on the fire department that go there for Homeland Security training.
All through the middle of this video you are walking through my barracks from 1985. Very hard to see this in such terrible shape. That's a damn shame.
Echo 10, Reception station, October 20 ,82. assigned to E-10 about October 26,...... Finished basic around Christmas, Started AIT In January, Graduated MP School about March 1 or 2, Arrived at Fort Campbell Kentucky and assigned as a line duty garrison MP at HHC LEA . worked my first gate about 3 days later, (Gate 1A), First patrol, area 2 night shift about 10 days after that. 10-18 last 10-15 your 10 22........
Went there this weekend in 1979. Lots of memories, thanks for the video.
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. September 1980, went on to be a CW3 helicopter pilot. GO ARMY
I was there October, 1983 to April, 1984. Got recycled in Basic. Got THE worst flu ever had in my life there. They took us to an isolation place till we recovered. I was in Alpha Company to start and finished with Delta. Went straight to Schofield Barracks after OSUT 95B. Great memories! So sad to see it empty. So many homeless vets could live there.
There in 86..I got that flu too...had it for all 6 weeks of basic! Always passed out on hikes. At age 35 I could not recycle so I just suffered.
I did both basic training and AIT in 1998 here. What an experience, it's a damn shame to see this installation in this shape.
Thank you for this video. Although the barracks I was assigned to back in early 1976 are long gone, it still brings back old memories of being stationed at Ft. McClellan.
I did my basic training here in 1974, so many memories for me, 44 years ago, seems like yesterday
Hi! 🙋♀️ I did my Basic there in the summer of 1962! WAC!!!
This place holds alot of great memories...i could never picture it this way in my mind...i was shocked to hear it had closed.
My husband and I both were in 787th. Different companies and a year apart though. This makes me want to cry.
Wow, I can't believe how powerful this is. I was 18, shining my boots and running my ass around those buildings. Blows me away. Thanks for posting. What a trip.
Ceiling tiles probably caved in from all the bogey bait hidden in them. LOL. Thanks for the video... brings back memories. Drive on MP.
Holy crap, I thought that was just! I left with a MONSTER care package still shoved in the ceiling.
If one could get in and take a peek. I lived in a similar barracks in Tx for a couple months and we'd hide all kinds of crap up there in the top bunk! Many "unmentionables"!
Wow, thank you for recording the art. This wasn't my company, but that was all my "era" - one of the last few classes to go through, but not the last class.
It makes me wonder, what became of those Privates and Drill SGTs named in the art.
All of that art, was done in the *spare* time of the Privates - which wasn't much. Usually on Saturday evenings and Sundays.
We thought our Drills, were gods - even though most of them, weren't much older than we were.
I wonder how much candy is still hiding over those ceiling tiles.
Omg... One can only imagine what's up there!!!
I think I still have a snickers bar up there.
Brenda Comeaux I doubt the candy we hid up there (those of us that had top bunk) are there or have already been eaten by bugs or rodents.
@@cheryllocke9306 Yes, I'm sure they cleaned their plates and left shortly afterwards, in search of homes full of cat haters.
Brenda Comeaux lol that’s what my husband said.
I was there in '91.... I remember taking 5 min power naps on the floor in the bay in front of a window... To this day when I see a cat find that little sliver of sun light in a room it takes me back....nice job, Thank you
Thanks for this video! This was where I went to basic training (1997). Sure brought back a lot of memories. We were one of the last groups to go through before they shut the doors, too.
Lol... me too. 54b graduated April 1998
E-10 MP OSUT, Jan 1979. Disobeyed and got married to another private in my platoon during school. Crazy time, crazy memories. Thank you for posting, brought tears of joy and sadness. Such a long time ago.
I was there nov 87-apr 88, D 787.
I remember our DS, Sgt Virginia Williams and SSG Timothy McGrath. He was 11b.
DS Williams was awesome, tough as nails. Sure would like to see what she's up to!
-Priscilla (Emery)
I remember SSG McGrath. I was there a couple of cycles before you I'm guessing.
Wow thanks for bringing back the memories of the place I did basic there 07/12/1986 ..... Fond memories thanks again.
Both nostalgic and heartbreaking. Oh to be young again. C-10 '81.
I was there summer of 82. This video brings back memories.
I went thru my basic training and A.I.T. in 12/1977 - 04/1978 in "C" {"Charlie Company}. Drill Sgts. Ledford, Covington, etc.
Hello. I was in D Co. 787th from August to December, in 1997. It’s very hard to imagine Ft. McClellan in this deteriorated state. A friend of mine from high school was in B Co. 795th, and got there a few weeks before I did. All the places I’d been, and all the things I’ve done since, I still hold my experiences here as some of the most valuable, as much for becoming a better person, as much as becoming a soldier. We trained with A2’s, and to this day I can shoot those better than the M4 I had for my time in the PA Guard. It just speaks to the people that were there and the pride we all took in being able to participate in the thing that is the Army.
Roll on, 28th.
Yall didn't have a little 17 yr old tooth pick from Mississippi in the squad that kept on getting smoked or getting the squad smoked did ya? Just curious, I was there from June to August for basic, had to leave early.
@@firedog9113 Why did you have to leave early? We had a girl that had to leave early due to some medical thing, which was strange. I honestly don’t recall. It’s definitely possible. D Co. had some problems, and the one that stands out the most, was when we were at the grenade range. We were marching up to the range, and two of the dudes in different squads got into a fight while we were marching. Drill instructors were at a meeting, or something, I can’t recall specifically. One of the dudes ended up punching his locker when we got back and broke his hand. He got to stay there when the rest of us left on Dec. 17th, and he got recycled into the next class that started in January. I’ve been trying to find one of the guys I was with there, but haven’t had much luck. I know he went to Ft. Leavenworth as his first duty assignment, and I talked to him a few times after our time at Ft McClellan. He was a good dude.
I cracked my chest bone in 4 placed some how, drills said I was pushing to hard, can't spell it right due to brain injury now. It was a medical discharge.
My mom was there in 1961 for training. She was a WAC. God rest. her soul. I miss her. Next month it will be 3 years since soc he paaed
So very sorry for your loss. I'm thankful for her service! I was there in 62 for Basic. WAC!!
@@lynadams2220 The Old WAC barracks is where we stayed in 83 for chemical school AIT. :)
Thank you so much for sharing this. Brings back memories... basic with D-12 and then AIT at the chemical school summer of 1982. Returned in Summer of 1984 for the NCO technical course
Wow...what memories this brings! There...Charlie 787 MP Bn......Warmongers!!
C Co. 787 4th Platoon Aug ‘89 - Dec ‘89
I was there from Jan to May 1986. We were the last to use the 10th, 11th and 12th battalion designations (I was in F-12), before they went to the triple numbers (787, etc). This video is eerie to watch, but it brought back a lot of memories. My wife and I sat and watched it, and she was comparing it to her Air Force training barracks. (We had something better than the Air Force....we had those individual showers, whereas she had to use open bay showers. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)
Thank you for making this video.
Wow so many memories went to basic and AIT here in 1998 chemical corps thank you
June 98!
We called them the Hiltons in 1983, they were home to the 11th and 12th Combat M.P.Corps. They were fairly new in Aug. of 83, I was assigned to the 12th BN, Echo Co. 4th Plt. From your video I think you were 12th BN Foxtrot Co area, which was next door to me. Never thought I would ever see the place again until I saw your video, a lot of memories of another time and place. Watching your video I could hear so many different voices from my youth in my head, ghosts saying remember us and what we did here. A first Sgt. who had won the CMH in a war all but forgotten who wanted to help a bunch of kids who wanted to be soldiers. It now looks like a ghost town, no more running and marching; no more shouting kids yelling "Men at war, kill, men at war, kill, late at night when you're sleeping Echo12 comes a creeping all around." My God, we knew nothing.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I have several other Fort McClellan videos.
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I was in Foxtrot Co. right next to you. Began basic Aug 83 and finished just in time for Christmas exodus. I can't remember his name but I remember saluting that sgt with the CMH. If I recall it was your company which had females, whereas ours had none. We thought they were all dogs for the first few weeks and then they started looking really good!
This video sure did bring back the memories!
was there in aug 83- dec 83 12 BN Bravo co. 4th platoon
Wow... not sure what all to say but.... thank you very much! I would of never thought in my lifetime I would feel anything looking back at this place and I definitely just got flooded with a phenomenal amount of memories & emotions. Many of us youngsters grew and learned more in a mere four months there, than most kids do in many years or even decades. Your time is appreciatted more than you could ever know.
Todd Dross - February 1984, 10th Battalion, Charlie Company, 1st Platoon
Below are a few names I hope get found in a search engine that I haven't heard from for more than 30 years...
Fellow soldiers:
Michael Blas
Larry Bostic
David Boyce
Bill Burke
Duane Cain
Michael Church
Anthony Clark
Kraig Conn
Michael Cooke
Dave Cupp
James Demarco
William Dillard
Carl Drouillard
Staff:
Commander CPT Hoehne
Senoir Drill SFC Burt
Drill SFC Cox
Drill SSG Cunningham *
Drill SSG Cady *
Drill SSG Avery
Drill SSG Epley *
Drill SSG Anderson
Thanks again R. Willy!!!!
I was also in the military and I would hope someone out there would do the same thing and film my old barracks whenever they become abandoned in the future. Glad you found my videos. Also, if you're one facebook, look for the "Fort McClellan Grads" Group. You may find some old friends on there.
Thanks, I found the group. And yes I hope that someone does the same for you as well. Karma's a pretty cool thing!
@@twinjugstodd I was there from May 1983 to Sep 1983. I had SSG Epley and SSG Mabe. SFC Duncan was SR Drill Sgt. Cpt Stephanie Hoehne was the Commander. SSG Avery and SSG Rimmer were also there...All the Way and Then Some!!! Thanks for the memories!!
I did Basic Training there as a WAC in January 1975. As a trainee, I had no clue as to the size of the base. Thanks for the videos; I haven’t thought of Ft. Clellan in years until I came across the videos.
Thanks so much for posting this video. I was at Ft McClellan April thru August of 1995. B 82nd Chem Co.
JohnHowardGraphicDesign Charlie Company Sept 94 - Feb 95. :) We just missed ya. :)
Thank you for sharing this. Brings back so many memories from the summer of 1982.
I was stationed here in 87. I remember these barracks because I went to (FTC) before going on to my basic training unit. Co E 348th battalion...... All women
Wow! Thank you for sharing this video! So many memories! I was there for basic and AIT, B co 795 sept 93-Jan 94!
I remember polishing those floors in the middle of the night and purposely smashing the polish machine into sleeping bunks. Man, thanks for the memories. I got my first tattoo and first lap dance in alabama.
Me to lmao!
I was in Bravo Company for basic and AIT back in June 1979. The place was brand new and spotless. The trees, scrubs and lawn were well maintained. The place is hardly recognizable now, except for the buildings. Brings back so many memories. I just can’t believe that they let this place decay the way it has. Thank you so much. Very sad to see the place like this.
I always find fairly modern facilities like this, fairly recently abandoned, to be the most spooky, brilliant exploration, thank you!
+Rifleman Moore I agree! Thanks
+Rifleman Moore
I left there in 1983...Is that recent?
+Rifleman Moore - Is 1983 recent? Those are the same barracks I was in back in 1983.
+E M. Yes. Same barracks. This is the 787 area. The 795 barracks look almost the same as these and were a block up the road. You can view those other barracks in my other Fort McClellan videos.. They were all abandoned in 1999.
+Rifleman Moore Is "fairly recently abandoned" meaning within the past 16+ years? It was closed by the Army/DOD in 1999.
I don't understand this "787" (etc) thing....I understand this was the 12th MP BN barracks. I was with F-12 from Jan-May 1986.
I was C-12 from April to August 1985. Wow, this brought back some memories even though Charlie Company was structured differently since the 3rd Floor was for the female platoon. Those landings are all the same. Being one of the oldest MP Trainees I lead my group as acting SGT. I remember when the Senior Drill SGT gave the command for 1st Platoon to lead the company to chow. The acting SGT couldn't remember the command in order; same with 2nd Platoon then 3rd Platoon. Then it was my turn to take the command to chow. I shouted "Company Attention" Then I took each Platoon to chow with commands along with my 4th Platoon; we had some great females in my company. That was a day to always remember. From then on some of the females called me Colonel and I would just laugh. I was older you see and I took everything to heart and what a blessing that day. I had already completed college and was just looking forward to leaving that area. I was only put down for push-ups once in AIT and that was no fun...LOL Graduation Day... Germany here I come! After that I was given the Presidential Physical Fitness Award at Fort Huachuca AZ. Along with other achievements which are all great memories and stories now for my sons and grandchildren. Hard to believe grandmama was in the military and believe me I have shocked many along the journey.
I was born there Noble Army Hospital 1967 Ft. McClellan, Alabama my Dad Army Sgt. served two years on base 1966-69. thanks for the video. I lived in Anniston, Ala 1.5 years.
Funny to think that this was home to many of us going through Basic and AIT... sad to see it this way, as the memories were so full of life for us. I'm glad I'm not alone. E-12, May - Sept 1985 OSUT.
i was there for basic training back in sept.1982. thanks for sharing.
+jimmy rivera
D-10, Sept 1982 as well
wow. thats pretty cool tom. we've been around a long time my friend.
+jimmy rivera what company were you in Jimmy?, I was in Delt 10
+tom miller "Delta"
+tom miller sept 1980
2cd battalion, Alpha company, 1st platoon.
Sgt. Ford
Sgt Nifong.
Thanks for filming brings back lot of memories! 38th AVN BN Eye of the Cyclone.
Damn.......A-Co 82nd Chem 1st Plt Sept 97'-Feb 98'.........the memories.
I was in 1st Platoon Cold Steel D-Co Dragons 82nd. I was in the last cycle of Delta in the summer of 95. It became Alpha Co Outlaws the very next cycle.
I was a Private there from March to July 1995. C CO 787th. Lots of memoroes flowing through me watching this. Also remembering the DFAC
Watching this broke my heart.. 1984 company D, 12th MP batallion..
I was in Delta 12 as well. August-December 1984!!!
Delta 12 here as well 1983
Alpha Company, 1984
@ HA! I was in F-12 from September 1984-January 1985.
Charlie Company, winter of 1984. Graduated and went to Kaiserslautern.
Great memories!!!!
Just want to say, thank you for taking me down memory lane! I was one of the bull dogs and when you went into that, I got a lot of flash backs! In case you don't know which one i'm talking about, it's the bull dog holding the gun. Really remember a lot about that time. Military Police! Thank you so much for painting the memories and God Bless!
one of the best chow halls.
James Varner, I gained 20lbs eating there
I couldn't believe they had soft serve ice cream machines ... but I limited myself to one per week.
@ I still chow down my food in 2 minutes to this day - one habit I can't seem to shake - lol
@@EveDahlSwag So Funny!!!
@ You didn't have the ice cream machines? A good and bad thing I suppose ... I guess My company was lucky, also, that we were never given just 2 minutes to eat ... but we were given 10 minutes some times while 30 was standard. We did have one extremely, "mean" drill sergeant, S. Allen, who was so mean they actually got rid of her at some point. She was our only female sergeant ... and while the rules had changed so that they were no longer allowed to physically ... touch us ...slap, hit, kick ...ect ... she slapped a girl so hard she left her hand print on her face for a week. She also put a guy down, for push ups on sharp big rocks and while he did them she threw those big pointed rocks at him ... hard ... we were all glad to see her go. (our company had 4 platoons ... 3 all men and the forth was half men half women). Only one of our drill sergeants were "nice" and I also think he was the only one who didn't screw around with as many of us as he could ... I wonder what basic training is like these days???
Did basic and AIT here in 89. Dang the memories......... Thanks for the video
Me, too! C Co. 787. Aug - Dec.
Looks just like my barracks in Benning in 2010
Ty 1991, i was in Hooty's kids. sad to see this but brings back so many memories.i was only there for a little while. dropped out but i still feel grateful for my experience.
I went to MP school and basic in August to December 1985 in C12. there were no phones at the front of the Bay then. The room to the right of the DS office was a day room and not allowed to be used until the very end of MP School. I wonder if the Bay with individual showers was a Female Bay. The Male Bay I was in had a large open shower. Thanks for the tour!
I agree. I did my time there March through July of 84 D11. It took me a while to figure out what the pay phones were doing up in the barracks. It is sad to see them all in such a state of disrepair. I remember full well how spotless they were back in the day. Finally yes, showers for us were one long open room. C11 had a platoon of females go through a week ahead of us we never heard what Charlie 11 was like in terms of their barracks.
Class of 1988, here. A795. It appears that we were the last ones through.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing. So sad that they closed the Fort. Sad to see how it looks now. From doing PT under the overhangs on the lower level, waiting in line to use the pay phones, Mail Call!!! Private showers. Great memories of the time I was there in 1986. Charlie 40 Wardogs!!
How hard would it be to turn places like that into a redevelopment program for vets that fell through the cracks of society? Redo a couple lines of a budget bill for a social security opt in clause on people who would volunteer to go there.
Bro, that actually sounds viable....
great idea. You are making too n uch sense for those greedy politicians.
brother- the ground is toxic, most of us are paying the price. Dont go there. definately dont drin the water or roll around in the dirt.
graduated basic and ait there in 1998. in 2010 i survived cancer at age 30. connection? who knows....
you do know that place is literally toxic right?
Thanks for sharing your footage. I had the pleasure of being both Delta 787 & 795 in 1995. I'll have to dig up my photos from my time there and compare. FYI, female recruits lived on the top floor, it was almost as hot as Iraq in the morning and our A/C didn't work as well as it should have. "Of the troops, for the troops!"
This is where my dad did basic training before being drafted in the WW2.
Thank you for the video. D787 MP BN on the other side of this bldg Jun-Oct 1987
Plenty of memories and emotions stirred up by this. Proud to have become a man here and disturbed but what it has been allowed to become.
Glad to know it is being repurposed but had plans of returning for a visit which doesn't seem likely now.