Man I remember seeing all the cool paintings other soldiers had done throughout the decades at every post I went to. Fort Campbell KY had some of the most intricate paintings done by soldiers I had ever seen. Some time later, SMA decided that all the "old" esprit de corps stuff needed to go and we ended up having to paint over all of it. Felt like sacrilege painting over all that history and all the names....
I was stationed there from April 1969 - February 1971 . I could not have asked for a better duty station. I was stationed with C company 5th Battalion 1st Brigade. As a Specialist In the Basic Training Unit. Everyone I Ever Met there during my tour of Duty were Fantastic. Thanks for the memories
I did Basic and then Advanced Infantry Training at Ft. Ord in 1963. Then I went to Ft. Benning, GA. for Jump School. I ended up at Ft. Campbell, KY. and served with the 101st Abn. Div. 2/506 thru 1966 - Good times! I was in both the old and the new barracks up on the hill when I was at Ord. My recollection of the ice plant is most vivid on and around the rifle ranges down by the beach. I also have a very vivid recollection of the fog in and around that Monterey Penninsula. I heard that the fog is why Salinas was the artichoke capital of the world at one time. I'll never forget arriving in Salinas by train from Los Angeles at O'dark 30hrs. and being loaded onto cattle trucks for the final leg of the journey to the Repo Depot on the base. I had just turned 17 in the week prior to my induction into Uncle Sam's fighting force. I enlisted in the Army because I had seen a cardboard cut-out of a paratrooper in his Class A uniform and knew that that was the uniform that I wanted to wear. Plus, I wanted to jump out of airplanes even though I had never flown in one! I accomplished both of those goals and the journey started at Ft. Ord.
My father was drafted in 1950 and sent to Fort Order for basic training (boot camp). He grew up very poor and always told me the best thing about Army boot camp was the food he said the DIs would say TAKE ALL YOU WANT..BUT EAT All YOU TAKE he had no problem with that and for a guy that only weighed 110 lbs he was in heaven. My father always said when he finished boot camp and was marching on the parade ground at graduation it was one of the proudest moments of his life. My father fought with the 7th Infantry Div during the Korean War (Pork Chop Hill) I'm sure he would be so sad if he saw what has happened to Fort Ord. He passed away this past April but I will always have the stories he told me of the Army and Fort Ord. Thank you for the video.
Sandra Ponce My husband is really impressed by your comment as he too was attached to the 7th Div, just much later than your Dad. 😊 And they told my husband the same thing: TAKE ALL YOU WANT BUT EAT ALL YOU TAKE. 😎 Very cool comment.
My wife was always curious about why I never left a bite of food on my plate no matter where we ate, at home or in a restaurant. I told her it was because the Army had conditioned me to eat everything I put on my tray or plate. In nearly every mess hall I was ever in there was a sign that said exactly what your father said he had been told: _"Take all you want but eat all you take."_ Good times!
I so appreciate a tour with someone who has knowledge and experience to serve as a guide. I’ve just watched a couple of videos were they had no knowledge, and were so looking for creepy that they saw everything as creepy where it wasn’t. You on the other hand speak know the background history that needs to be told. Thank you for your service.
Great video, brought back memories. I was drafted In In April 1969, did basic and AIT training there. Went to Vietnam and was with the Americal Division, 198th light infantry brigade in Chu Lai. When I came home I was stationed at Oakland Army Base for the balance of my time and was an overseas orientation/processing Sgt for the troops heading out.
August through October 1970 for BCT. 2nd platoon, Company C, Third Battalion, Third Brigade. I can’t really say it was an enjoyable experience, but was something I am glad did. No one was sent home, you were recycled to finish your training if you didn’t make it the first time.
Did basic and AIT at Fort Ord. Basic from 02/72 thru 04/72, C-2-2. In the wooden barracks. AIT also wooden barracks not far from the bowling alley. B-1-4. After grad from AIT got 1 week leave and 3 days travel time to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. USMTM-SA . Did one year there, came back in Aug 73 and did my last 18 months at Fort Riley. Hated it but glad I was there.
I was with Bravo 7th S&T at Fort Ord, CA in the mid 1980s to 1989 & the onto Des./Storm. I was a 55 B Amo/explosives expert. Our motto was "Silent & Deadly". I was on DRB (on call 24 hrs a day for almost 1 year non stop) for like constantly because I was the only 55 B my company had.
I'm enjoying watching you videos about the bases on the West Coast. Have you thought about doing a video about Camp White? It's now known as White City, Oregon, but in its heyday it stretched from Eagle Point to Phoenix, Oregon and across most of Medford and the Rogue Valley. There a lot of info to be found that's worth looking into, so I hope you do. In the meantime, great job! I'm impressed and that's not easy to do. 😎
stationed there 73-74. attached the the hospital, optician at the optometry clinic. mornings taking in the new trainees then active duty personnel. afternoons was retired personnel and dependents. it was good duty station and sad to see that they closed it
i was stationed on the hill First brigade HQ 1966 to 1968. Recently visited Ord after 50 years. Now i know how a GM worker felt returning to a crumbling factory. It's sad to leave it like this.... just a waste (like the Vietnam war effort).
I was drafted in October of 1972 after being bussed from my home town of San Diego to the L.A. induction center and then bussed to Fort Ord to begin basic, all in one day...I was 20 years old.
I was assigned to Fort Ord upon return from Vietnam in 1971. I was the Honor Grad of my Instructor Training Course before going to Drill Sgt Course. I was a DS from '72 until Feb '75. Met my 1st wife in Monterey. Received direct appointment to Cpt Inf while at Ord. In '73 or '74 there was a contest at Ord to find the "ideal looking" Drill Sgt. He was found in another company of my Bn and he was the "model" for a bronze, life-size statue of a DS and the statue was placed at or near the front gate. It was supposed to remain there "forever in honor of all Fort Ord Drill Sgts." Question: Is it still there? If so, can someone get a picture for me? If it is no longer there, does anyone know what happened to it?
1971 ~ Basic and AIT for a total of 3 months at Ft. Ord. But I stayed at Ft. Ord for 6 months, because I was in the hospital for 2 months with a disease I contracted the night before I was inducted. And I was a "hold over", waiting for the next training cycle to begin, doing KP most of the time. So, I was actually, somewhat accustomed to the army before I started Basic training. I did basic in the furthest S.East corner concrete barracks, as it can be seen on Google Earth. And then I did AIT in one of the WWII barracks. This was in the spring and summer of 1971, and I was sure I was going to Vietnam, so I paid serious attention to training. They taught us some fundamental things, but not nearly enough to go to a war zone. I only shot the M16 once while in training for 3 months. They ended up stationing me at Ft. Carson, basically as a place holder, assigned to the old Mule Barn area at that fort, which is no longer there. They didn't send me to Vietnam because I could not sprint. I could march, and double time for 3 miles, and carry an M60, but I didn't have that extra "gear" to sprint. Being a very slow runner was something that bothered me while growing up, but in the army, it saved my life. A mixed blessing. As a draftee, in 1971, I had a charmed army career, capped of with a 3 month early out and honorable discharge. The G.I Bill was not gutted at that time like it is now, and I spent 3 years in college and got a nice loan to buy a big city condo.
Don't know I can agree that it was "a primitive existence" -- or at least, it wasn't in my case. This was because I was not in infantry AIT (which would have been daunting) but was taking the Basic Army Administration Course so I could be the company clerk upon returning to my NG unit in Seattle. I had really quite an easy time of it. And, since the cook school was charged with preparing and serving all of our meals, we had it pretty good, since, in those days, they held those cooks to a very high standard of food preparation.
I am born and raised in the Monterey Bay area and Fort Ord was a big part of the civilian population in our county and yes when they pulled out and closed ft ord it left for a broke community empty buildings empty homes shut down businesses but then I look at this video today and I remember as a kid riding around with a cab driver and having to pick people up at the Barricks . I remember the weekly weekend war games that were played and how are you could hear the sonic boom’s everywhere boom boom boom boom I also remember Silas B Hayes hospital and the large presence of military personnel. I have to say this video is a flashback from the past as with the first barracks they were temporary I remember I was in e High school and took a college class in English threw Monterey Peninsula College and I attended the class there in the old temporary Barricks on second and third Avenue I also had a friend who rented a building on the old Fort Ord base and later on helped tear down some of the Barricks and recycle the wood oh I have to say it changed our community there it’s been 28 years since the closure of Fort Ord but a real interesting video to watch years later thank you for the video
Basic in C-2-1 near main post, September 66 to December 66. Butt can water froze on top in the later months. DI Miller was a boozer, we fire guards would see him stubble in about 0200 from Monterey, then fall out for rev at 0500. The CS gas course separated the men from the boys. Chow was so bad we survived on "soul milk" (chocolate milk).
(73) During 'Survival' training our Capt pulled a chicken from a cage, wring'd its neck, split it open at the rear, pulled out the egg sack, removed an egg and then proceeded to squeeze the the contents into his mouth. "Whatever it takes to survive" Then went onto a spiel about not hitting his officers or NCO's?? Soon after while returning to the Cattle Trucks, we were captured and placed in a mock-up VC POW camp... That freaking barber chair where they interrogated prisoners while everyone watched was quite intimidating to say the least...
wanted to see ghosts, but the imagination took over,,, Light fighter 1988-1991 Charlie company, 1st squad, second platoon, 13th Engineer battalion , Sapper Light- fit to fight! Combat Leaders course, pushed up the sand, ooooooh, Confident Course,,, no longer exists,,,, but seeing that soldier crab walk backwards,,, thanks for the memories,,, even though I wised up and joined the Air Force and finished my career in the medical field, deep down original green, 6 years, with 18 coats of blue,,,, thanks for those who served, and continue to serve......Blue Skies
Joseph Ornelas I was there with you brother! David Shaw here. SFC Hansen was tough on us. Remember Zahourek, Wheeler, Mack, Perry, etc.? Dean Johnson and I are still best friends (since high school).
You forgot “ Rights of passage”, lol. 5th Bn 15th FA, 1984-1990…..and those damnable quarterly 25 mile road marches, running on the beach….Division runs with the mayor of Carmel, Clint Eastwood.
i eas at fort ord from 86 to 89, im from akron ohio, i went out in 2014and again last year 2015 and drove on to ft ord, my company was still intact, and walked through battalion hqs, the px looks the same is being used by the presidio of monterey, very sad, and i wonder where the hell the time went, i was in hsc 7th sand t battalion, i worked in the warehouses by highway 1,
Drafted in 65 from Los Angeles but Fort Ord was closed due to spinal men. Sent to Fort Polk, La instead. Ord looks pretty plush compared to Tiger Land.
Fort Ord was the logistics port of entry to get everything together, and ready to go to war, and bused to Travis AFB to the combat zone. If it was closed is ok, but for many years it went into spoilage, abandonment, and destruction , as if someone just wanted to get even, and that wasn't ok. Fort Ord, good bye, time to close the page.
My thinking is that when Fort Ord was closed and turn over to CA, everything was documented, but no special attention were devoted, and the rest is history ; every piece of land is sacred, but Fort ORD was neglected, sad!
Who ever the vandals were, need to rot in hell! This is degusting what has become of this historical place, my brother was stationed there in 1968-69 before going to Vietnam! Thank God he made it back, and is still loving today..
Yeah that's what I heard too. I believe the military brought them in so they could stabilize the dunes during shooting practice. They aren't native and they should never have been brought here in the first place.
Basic, Jan - Mar, 73, C-4-1, D SSG Berry. I do not remember the Ice Plants, but I do remember not placing your hands in pockets and flinging a cigarette butt. All pocket related.
Man I remember seeing all the cool paintings other soldiers had done throughout the decades at every post I went to. Fort Campbell KY had some of the most intricate paintings done by soldiers I had ever seen. Some time later, SMA decided that all the "old" esprit de corps stuff needed to go and we ended up having to paint over all of it. Felt like sacrilege painting over all that history and all the names....
I was stationed there from April 1969 - February 1971 . I could not have asked for a better duty station. I was stationed with C company 5th Battalion 1st Brigade. As a Specialist In the Basic Training Unit. Everyone I Ever Met there during my tour of Duty were Fantastic. Thanks for the memories
I did Basic and then Advanced Infantry Training at Ft. Ord in 1963. Then I went to Ft. Benning, GA. for Jump School. I ended up at Ft. Campbell, KY. and served with the 101st Abn. Div. 2/506 thru 1966 - Good times! I was in both the old and the new barracks up on the hill when I was at Ord.
My recollection of the ice plant is most vivid on and around the rifle ranges down by the beach. I also have a very vivid recollection of the fog in and around that Monterey Penninsula. I heard that the fog is why Salinas was the artichoke capital of the world at one time. I'll never forget arriving in Salinas by train from Los Angeles at O'dark 30hrs. and being loaded onto cattle trucks for the final leg of the journey to the Repo Depot on the base.
I had just turned 17 in the week prior to my induction into Uncle Sam's fighting force. I enlisted in the Army because I had seen a cardboard cut-out of a paratrooper in his Class A uniform and knew that that was the uniform that I wanted to wear. Plus, I wanted to jump out of airplanes even though I had never flown in one! I accomplished both of those goals and the journey started at Ft. Ord.
My father was drafted in 1950 and sent to Fort Order for basic training (boot camp). He grew up very poor and always told me the best thing about Army boot camp was the food he said the DIs would say TAKE ALL YOU WANT..BUT EAT All YOU TAKE he had no problem with that and for a guy that only weighed 110 lbs he was in heaven. My father always said when he finished boot camp and was marching on the parade ground at graduation it was one of the proudest moments of his life. My father fought with the 7th Infantry Div during the Korean War (Pork Chop Hill) I'm sure he would be so sad if he saw what has happened to Fort Ord. He passed away this past April but I will always have the stories he told me of the Army and Fort Ord. Thank you for the video.
Sandra Ponce My husband is really impressed by your comment as he too was attached to the 7th Div, just much later than your Dad. 😊 And they told my husband the same thing: TAKE ALL YOU WANT BUT EAT ALL YOU TAKE. 😎 Very cool comment.
My wife was always curious about why I never left a bite of food on my plate no matter where we ate, at home or in a restaurant. I told her it was because the Army had conditioned me to eat everything I put on my tray or plate. In nearly every mess hall I was ever in there was a sign that said exactly what your father said he had been told: _"Take all you want but eat all you take."_ Good times!
I so appreciate a tour with someone who has knowledge and experience to serve as a guide. I’ve just watched a couple of videos were they had no knowledge, and were so looking for creepy that they saw everything as creepy where it wasn’t. You on the other hand speak know the background history that needs to be told. Thank you for your service.
I loved my 3 years at Fort Ord HHC 4-17 87 to 90. The year it rocked was a crazy year.
Thanks for the memories!!!! HHC 4-17th Inf. (Jan. 92-Summer 93)
I was a medic with 8th Evac in the early 80's. Thank you for posting the video!
Great video, brought back memories. I was drafted In In April 1969, did basic and AIT training there. Went to Vietnam and was with the Americal Division, 198th light infantry brigade in Chu Lai. When I came home I was stationed at Oakland Army Base for the balance of my time and was an overseas orientation/processing Sgt for the troops heading out.
Good memories. Sad to see the state of condition Ft. Ord is in now. Great video. .
August through October 1970 for BCT. 2nd platoon, Company C, Third Battalion, Third Brigade. I can’t really say it was an enjoyable experience, but was something I am glad did. No one was sent home, you were recycled to finish your training if you didn’t make it the first time.
They really didn't want to recycle anyone because of the expense.
Did basic and AIT at Fort Ord. Basic from 02/72 thru 04/72, C-2-2. In the wooden barracks. AIT also wooden barracks not far from the bowling alley. B-1-4. After grad from AIT got 1 week leave and 3 days travel time to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. USMTM-SA . Did one year there, came back in Aug 73 and did my last 18 months at Fort Riley. Hated it but glad I was there.
I was with Bravo 7th S&T at Fort Ord, CA in the mid 1980s to 1989 & the onto Des./Storm. I was a
55 B Amo/explosives expert.
Our motto was "Silent & Deadly". I was on DRB (on call 24 hrs a day for almost 1 year non stop) for like constantly because I was the only 55 B my company had.
I'm enjoying watching you videos about the bases on the West Coast. Have you thought about doing a video about Camp White? It's now known as White City, Oregon, but in its heyday it stretched from Eagle Point to Phoenix, Oregon and across most of Medford and the Rogue Valley. There a lot of info to be found that's worth looking into, so I hope you do. In the meantime, great job! I'm impressed and that's not easy to do. 😎
stationed there 73-74. attached the the hospital, optician at the optometry clinic. mornings taking in the new trainees then active duty personnel. afternoons was retired personnel and dependents. it was good duty station and sad to see that they closed it
i was stationed on the hill First brigade HQ 1966 to 1968. Recently visited Ord after 50 years. Now i know how a GM worker felt returning to a crumbling factory. It's sad to leave it like this.... just a waste (like the Vietnam war effort).
I was in H-1-1 for Basic Training in May-June 1967, so it seems likely our paths might have crossed. I hope you're doing well.
I was drafted in October of 1972 after being bussed from my home town of San Diego to the L.A. induction center and then bussed to Fort Ord to begin basic, all in one day...I was 20 years old.
I was assigned to Fort Ord upon return from Vietnam in 1971. I was the Honor Grad of my Instructor Training Course before going to Drill Sgt Course. I was a DS from '72 until Feb '75. Met my 1st wife in Monterey. Received direct appointment to Cpt Inf while at Ord. In '73 or '74 there was a contest at Ord to find the "ideal looking" Drill Sgt. He was found in another company of my Bn and he was the "model" for a bronze, life-size statue of a DS and the statue was placed at or near the front gate. It was supposed to remain there "forever in honor of all Fort Ord Drill Sgts."
Question: Is it still there? If so, can someone get a picture for me? If it is no longer there, does anyone know what happened to it?
Do you remember a Mst. Sgt. James Prout, he was there from '73 - '74 before he died in a motorcycle accident?
My gosh, you weren't one of the Tunnel Rats were you? Basic, Jan - Mar, 73, C-4-1 SSG Berry...
1971 ~ Basic and AIT for a total of 3 months at Ft. Ord. But I stayed at Ft. Ord for 6 months, because I was in the hospital for 2 months with a disease I contracted the night before
I was inducted. And I was a "hold over", waiting for the next training cycle to begin, doing KP most of the time.
So, I was actually, somewhat accustomed to the army before I started Basic training. I did basic in the furthest S.East corner concrete barracks, as it can be seen on Google Earth.
And then I did AIT in one of the WWII barracks. This was in the spring and summer of 1971, and I was sure I was going to Vietnam, so I paid serious attention to training.
They taught us some fundamental things, but not nearly enough to go to a war zone. I only shot the M16 once while in training for 3 months.
They ended up stationing me at Ft. Carson, basically as a place holder, assigned to the old Mule Barn area at that fort, which is no longer there. They didn't send me to Vietnam
because I could not sprint. I could march, and double time for 3 miles, and carry an M60, but I didn't have that extra "gear" to sprint. Being a very slow runner was something
that bothered me while growing up, but in the army, it saved my life. A mixed blessing. As a draftee, in 1971, I had a charmed army career, capped of with a 3 month early out
and honorable discharge. The G.I Bill was not gutted at that time like it is now, and I spent 3 years in college and got a nice loan to buy a big city condo.
Don't know I can agree that it was "a primitive existence" -- or at least, it wasn't in my case. This was because I was not in infantry AIT (which would have been daunting) but was taking the Basic Army Administration Course so I could be the company clerk upon returning to my NG unit in Seattle. I had really quite an easy time of it. And, since the cook school was charged with preparing and serving all of our meals, we had it pretty good, since, in those days, they held those cooks to a very high standard of food preparation.
I am born and raised in the Monterey Bay area and Fort Ord was a big part of the civilian population in our county and yes when they pulled out and closed ft ord it left for a broke community empty buildings empty homes shut down businesses but then I look at this video today and I remember as a kid riding around with a cab driver and having to pick people up at the Barricks . I remember the weekly weekend war games that were played and how are you could hear the sonic boom’s everywhere boom boom boom boom I also remember Silas B Hayes hospital and the large presence of military personnel. I have to say this video is a flashback from the past as with the first barracks they were temporary I remember I was in e
High school and took a college class in English threw Monterey Peninsula College and I attended the class there in the old temporary Barricks on second and third Avenue I also had a friend who rented a building on the old Fort Ord base and later on helped tear down some of the Barricks and recycle the wood oh I have to say it changed our community there it’s been 28 years since the closure of Fort Ord but a real interesting video to watch years later thank you for the video
B C T C-2-1 Jun-Aug 1971 Two schools through Dec Good video
Basic in C-2-1 near main post, September 66 to December 66. Butt can water froze on top in the later months. DI Miller was a boozer, we fire guards would see him stubble in about 0200 from Monterey, then fall out for rev at 0500. The CS gas course separated the men from the boys. Chow was so bad we survived on "soul milk" (chocolate milk).
(73) During 'Survival' training our Capt pulled a chicken from a cage, wring'd its neck, split it open at the rear, pulled out the egg sack, removed an egg and then proceeded to squeeze the the contents into his mouth. "Whatever it takes to survive" Then went onto a spiel about not hitting his officers or NCO's?? Soon after while returning to the Cattle Trucks, we were captured and placed in a mock-up VC POW camp... That freaking barber chair where they interrogated prisoners while everyone watched was quite intimidating to say the least...
I went through Basic there in 1972. At that time General Hal Moore of Ia Drang, and 'We Were Soldiers" fame was CG of Ft. Ord.
My old man was there for basic in 69, I cant believe they are tearing it down, It should be a historical sight in my opinion.
I did Basic and AIT at Ord Under LT General Hal Moore winter 1971 then off to Vietnam. No one DE Trained us When we came home .
Sad to see when I can Romberg what it looked like when I was in medical company 1966-1967 will Romberg you always
Gang showers and such. I remember having to Brasso the copper base for the partitions and shower drains...
After basic training at Fort Knox, my brother was stationed there in the late 50s. I don't think he enjoyed it at all
I was at Planet Ord 83-85 C Battery 6/8 FA
My grandpa Robert Lee Ring " Bob " RING. I was born. Here in 87
I was born there in 87 too!
wanted to see ghosts, but the imagination took over,,, Light fighter 1988-1991 Charlie company, 1st squad, second platoon, 13th Engineer battalion , Sapper Light- fit to fight! Combat Leaders course, pushed up the sand, ooooooh, Confident Course,,, no longer exists,,,, but seeing that soldier crab walk backwards,,, thanks for the memories,,, even though I wised up and joined the Air Force and finished my career in the medical field, deep down original green, 6 years, with 18 coats of blue,,,, thanks for those who served, and continue to serve......Blue Skies
Joseph Ornelas I was there with you brother! David Shaw here. SFC Hansen was tough on us. Remember Zahourek, Wheeler, Mack, Perry, etc.? Dean Johnson and I are still best friends (since high school).
You forgot “ Rights of passage”, lol. 5th Bn 15th FA, 1984-1990…..and those damnable quarterly 25 mile road marches, running on the beach….Division runs with the mayor of Carmel, Clint Eastwood.
1974 B-3-3. open toilet and shower, you did get use to it real fast.
"Don't step on the iceplant!" How often I heard those words during my time at Ft. Ord. Fortunately, they were usually directed at somebody else.
Ice Plant is not a native plant and being pulled out now, it is there still and near Freeway built in '74
I was with 7th MP CO., 7th ID at Ft. Ord '83-'84. Hate to see the condition it's in now. Sad.
i eas at fort ord from 86 to 89, im from akron ohio, i went out in 2014and again last year 2015 and drove on to ft ord, my company was still intact, and walked through battalion hqs, the px looks the same is being used by the presidio of monterey, very sad, and i wonder where the hell the time went, i was in hsc 7th sand t battalion, i worked in the warehouses by highway 1,
I think you arrested me. Car chase on base
I was in one car chase on base but the individual we were chasing was a female dependent. Glad it wasn't you!
83-85, A 1/32.. Hello
Drafted in 65 from Los Angeles but Fort Ord was closed due to spinal men. Sent to Fort Polk, La instead. Ord looks pretty plush compared to Tiger Land.
It was the Army! Looks can be decieving!!!
I was there for basic n AIT Jan-June 1973. Then went to Germany 8th Div until Jan 1976.
During the Vietnam war, no one was sent home. They were recycled until they got it right or go to jail if they went AWOL and prosecuted.
Basic Training November 1959. C-5-1.
B Brty 2/62 ADA Stinger Plt , 7th INf (light) .
R.I.P Brothers
Fort Ord was the logistics port of entry to get everything together, and ready to go to war, and bused to Travis AFB to the combat zone. If it was closed is ok, but for many years it went into spoilage, abandonment, and destruction , as if someone just wanted to get even, and that wasn't ok. Fort Ord, good bye, time to close the page.
My thinking is that when Fort Ord was closed and turn over to CA, everything was documented, but no special attention were devoted, and the rest is history ; every piece of land is sacred, but Fort ORD was neglected, sad!
Who ever the vandals were, need to rot in hell! This is degusting what has become of this historical place, my brother was stationed there in 1968-69 before going to Vietnam! Thank God he made it back, and is still loving today..
I still remember how much it sucked in 1968! However, I finished and graduated with the company....
83-86, 4/9
0:31 Lol ice plant is an invasive plant... Ice plant actually harms native plants.
Yeah that's what I heard too. I believe the military brought them in so they could stabilize the dunes during shooting practice. They aren't native and they should never have been brought here in the first place.
@@jamesperkins7923 yeah they were to help stop erosion, but there roots are so shallow they don't help a lick.
Basic, Jan - Mar, 73, C-4-1, D SSG Berry. I do not remember the Ice Plants, but I do remember not placing your hands in pockets and flinging a cigarette butt. All pocket related.
2/8 Field Artillery 1977-78
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All wars are a waste. I been to several in my lifetime with the Army.
Don't for get Korea 1950