Yea, we were kind of segregated from the guys. Now that I think back it was a kind of pot bellied stove. The funny thing though, if there was a problem with the unit, they weren't too concerned about it. We slept in those barracks bad unit or not. Yea, lucky to have survived. I think about that dead girl all of the time.

Hi Merry Christmas, I see that you were at Ft. Gordon a decade before I was stationed there, I bet it was really different there. Yea, Our WAC barracks was stuck in the middle of now where, Our group of girls was 8 at the most, and we turned heads on the forts, OMG girls ! Yea, I really liked White Sands, Our barracks were very modern. If I looked out my bedroom window, I could see where I worked at McAfee Army Hospital. My room was large, I had my own bathroom, it was almost a pleasure to be stationed there. If it weren't for the bats ! They would linger around the light poles at night, sometimes I had to run home from work. The base was a little lonely, not enough to do. I would take long walks in the desert, or take a bus to Las Cruces, took in some concerts at New Mexico State. It all seems like yesterday.

Hello, Merry Christmas to you ! Yes, I'm sure I had your father as a instructor. Wow, he taught at Ft. Gordon for 29 years, now he deserved a medal for that service.

Hi there, yea isn't it funny..Everyone remembers those darn barracks.Merry Christmas

Thank You, and thank you for your service.

Hi, sorry I had to laugh..great way to start our careers in the military by lying to us. My recruiter told me I could keep my butt length long hair. As long as I wore it off my collar, Nope !! It took years to grow it back...not happy !

Hi there, I'm not surprised that those barracks burned down..Probably due to the ancient heating system. I used to meet up with a few male friends from Fort Bliss, and we would play in Juarez, Mexico most weekends. We used to stay at the rooms at the YMCA. Fun times ! The stories I could tell !!

Hi there, thank you for the welcome. Yea, it seems like a lot of us were there at the same time.

Hi, thanks for responding, looks like we may have been on the base at the same time. I went to Fort Hood, Texas afterwards. I almost went to Vietnam, Brussels..But remained stateside..I was at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for a few years. I have been reading where kerosene was used also in those barracks. I just figured that's how it was done in the south..those barracks were so old....Us WAC's were left by ourselves, it felt strange. I signed up for medical and got the signal corps..just a few of the lies I fell victim too, but I learned a lot at Signal School.

I attended Signal School in 1967, my name then was Pvt Phyllis Brenning. I was there for AIT and I was a WAC (Women's Army Corp) us girls had our own small barracks, there were maybe 8 of us there for school in January 1967. I understood that the old white wooden barracks had been there since civil war days. The first night I slept there, they had some kind of a heater near the entry door..I thought it was a coal heater. The next morning one of the girls had died in her sleep. No one told us how she died, we figured it was from the heater, I assumed she had a respiratory issue. I remember having black dust on my face and in my nostrils. So welcome to Georgia. I spent a lot of time at the horse riding stables run by Colonel Thompson, he had a young daughter and we used to ride horses every chance we had. I loved Georgia all of the time I was there, I never made it to Savannah though. I would love to hear from any other WAC member that was there during 1967. Phyllis Wynne, phyllis_wynne@yahoo.com.