Signal Corp Museum, Ft Gordon, GA: Recently toured Signal Corp Museum at Ft Gordon, GA. Those of you who like me spent time there in the 60s will not recognize the place. wooden...

ceallachain Loc: Cape May, NJ

Recently toured Signal Corp Museum at Ft Gordon, GA. Those of you who like me spent time there in the 60s will not recognize the place. wooden barracks are gone so too I'll assume is the need to keep the fire going through the night. Anyway here's what they exhibit for fellow Vientnam signal members.

JMorris271 Loc: Columbia,SC

Nice shot.

tramsey Loc: Texas

Been there done that, I mean with the fire, I felt like an idiot back in the frontier days, keeping that stupid fire going. The wooden barracks are all gone, that's good. They should've plowed the rest of it under to.

Nice shot though

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

ceallachain wrote:

Recently toured Signal Corp Museum at Ft Gordon, GA. Those of you who like me spent time there in the 60s will not recognize the place. wooden barracks are gone so too I'll assume is the need to keep the fire going through the night. Anyway here's what they exhibit for fellow Vientnam signal members.

I go further back. Ft Monmouth NJ 1958 32B40

crimesc324 Loc: West Palm Beach, Florida

ceallachain wrote:

Recently toured Signal Corp Museum at Ft Gordon, GA. Those of you who like me spent time there in the 60s will not recognize the place. wooden barracks are gone so too I'll assume is the need to keep the fire going through the night. Anyway here's what they exhibit for fellow Vientnam signal members.

Don't forget using the buffer on the linoleum hallways. Had to keep the fires burning there when I was in the 1st trng brigade

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ceallachain wrote:

wooden barracks are gone so too I'll assume is the need to keep the fire going through the night.

Please explain about the fire.

Bruce with a Canon Loc: Islip

South Eastern Signal School, 31M, 31L. Fort Gordon, 71-72.
MP school was also at Gordon.

For all the training on solid state communications equipment . I was stationed in Alaska where, in winter solid state was useless at 40 below. We used An/Trc 24 tube powered FM radios with An/tcc 7 carrier gear.
Love vacuum tubes, turn them on they run forever.

The heat, fried catfish and country chicken YUM.
Augusta had a little hole in he wall restaurant owned by a dear "older" woman ( I was 21, everyone was OLDER).
Her place was filled with trainees. Her husband was killed in Viet Nam. She supported her kids by feeding GI's.
She had no menu, you walked in and she fed you catfish, chicken, the best cole slaw on the planet hush puppies.
IF someone was unfortunate enough to use off color language Mama would slap you upside the back of the head an tell you to behave.

Great memories from Fort Gordon and Augusta, Thanks@

Bruce with a Canon Loc: Islip

jerryc41 wrote:

Please explain about the fire.

Every night some luck souls would pull "Fire duty" keep the wood fires burning in cold months. Summer months troops would pull security guard. Ensure everyone was where they were supposed to be and no one entered the barracks. When the wood barracks were replaced with brick buildings fire guards were no longer needed.
Soldiers still pulled barracks duty.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

The kerosene stoves used 5 gal jerry cans which had to be changed through out the night by the fire guard.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bruce with a Canon wrote:

Every night some luck souls would pull "Fire duty" keep the wood fires burning in cold months. Summer months troops would pull security guard. Ensure everyone was where they were supposed to be and no one entered the barracks. When the wood barracks were replaced with brick buildings fire guards were no longer needed.
Soldiers still pulled barracks duty.

Thanks.

ceallachain Loc: Cape May, NJ

And your buddies were not too happy in the AM if the barracks were cold and even worse so if the shower water was cold. BTW, the coldest day of my 73 years was spent at Ft Gordon. In mid February 1964 they had a cold rainy day that just bit into your bones. I couldn't believe I was so cold. And I'm originally from MA where the winters are usually cold. I sent 6 months down. Double MOS, 051 and 053. Liked the USO club that was in Augusta.

macv dave

ceallachain wrote:

Recently toured Signal Corp Museum at Ft Gordon, GA. Those of you who like me spent time there in the 60s will not recognize the place. wooden barracks are gone so too I'll assume is the need to keep the fire going through the night. Anyway here's what they exhibit for fellow Vientnam signal members.

Thanks for this post. A lot of memories (not all good) but many of them are unique. The Georgia red clay. Went from there to Ft. Monmouth, then Ft. Lewis,Wa. , then to the Mekong Delta (Adv Tm #51) Remember the movie theater in Augusta too -"good" movies!!! And there was the Escape & Evasion course. Found out (mistakenly) first hand why the swamp was "off limits". And yes, the MP school - learned a little from a guy who was in that school and have showed some cops and construction workers how to "pointedly" direct traffic. I think that the MP school is in Ft. Leonard Wood now. Would love to pay a visit to the Museum. Dave

bersharbp Loc: Texas

Bruce with a Canon wrote:

South Eastern Signal School, 31M, 31L. Fort Gordon... (show quote)

You left off an/grc-26

WOOTTEE Loc: plymouth Ma.

ceallachain wrote:

Recently toured Signal Corp Museum at Ft Gordon, GA. Those of you who like me spent time there in the 60s will not recognize the place. wooden barracks are gone so too I'll assume is the need to keep the fire going through the night. Anyway here's what they exhibit for fellow Vientnam signal members.

Aug. - Nov. 75 31M20
Fond memories of walking Augusta National. There was a major hurricane that came through and my company was selected to go and police up the swath of debris. Back then I had no interest in golf, today I would have paid for the honor!

gblack67 Loc: Daytona Beach, Florida

Ft. Gordon is a great place. Went to MP school there back in 1967. Did the fire watch and polished the floors and froze my behind off in the old wooden barracks.