Here's Where I Took My AF Tech School... So Sad...

[Gunny]

Wow... other Chanute stories, cool.

Yeah I volunteered to wax and buff the barracks floors each day after everyone else left to go MARCH to school, in the COLD, and SNOW. Meanwhile, I got a system down where I could buff the floors spit shined in nothing flat, so afterwards I could go over to the TDY barracks and have a nice breakfast, and then RIDE to school in a buddy's truck that I had met, a nice WARM truck. I had a lot of people ask me if I wanted to let them do the floor buffing each morning to which I always replied, NOT A CHANCE. I got a "STRAGGLE PASS" too that dismissed me from marching.

They tell you NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ANYTHING, but, sometimes it works out to your advantage.

Chanute was just a short bus ride up to my home in WI, and the bus would pick you up and drop you off right on base. I got to go home for Christmas and New Years. I was glad to leave Chanute though when tech school was over. Went home for about a week then off to Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV. Ya, and I had orders for Shaw AFB right up until about 2 weeks before graduation, then they changed them to Nellis. We had a "base trading" day for people that have the same job... I didn't even go... and I still had people asking to trade me for Nellis. NOT A CHANCE again...

I was out of the house and ESPECIALLY my dad's house by the time he went to Chanute. I went back to Miami when he went to Keflavik. No F-ing way was I going there even if they'd let me. I think it was a unaccompanied post.

We were forever going to Monterey, CA and San Angelo, TX. My dad was a linguist so he kept getting orders back to DLI. Then he had a course in Crystal City, in Arlington, VA,Why we lived in DC beats the Hell out of me.

When I get unlazy and want to focus, there are pics of Iraklion Air Station on the net of how it looked when we were there, and the graffiti'd up ghost town it is now. That was kind of sad. The pics focus more on the AF there, naturally. Not Dependents so I recognized very little except the main gate and the NCO club. There were no pics of housing.

Speaking of, the housing we lived in on the Presidio of Monterey in 66 and 72 got bulldozed flat too. NOTHING on Lackland is what it was when I was a kid except the commissary and BX. Why that, who knows

Oddly, I only lived on base as a Marine when I was a boot living in the barracks. Once I got married I never did. The ex and I were both active duty and we made out better living off base. So we thought anyway. Closest I came was I had gotten assigned a house in Wire Mountain (SNCO housing) on Camp Pendleton but decided to retire the next month so had to turn it down and pull my name.

[Elessar]

We were forever going to Monterey, CA and San Angelo, TX. .

My son is doing his Doctorate Internship at the newer VA Hospital/Clinic at was
once Fort Ord.

I was in Monterey for a day while on a familiarization tour. The Group there (now just
a station) is situated in a gorgeous building and grounds.

[Gunny]

My son is doing his Doctorate Internship at the newer VA Hospital/Clinic at was
once Fort Ord.

I was in Monterey for a day while on a familiarization tour. The Group there (now just
a station) is situated in a gorgeous building and grounds.

I only lived on Ft Ord once. Housing was NICE.That was in 68-69. 66-67 and 71-72 we lived on the Presidio of Monterey. That housing was basically a huge apartment complex. Walking to and from school was just "wonderful". 45 degrees downhill to school, and 45 degrees uphill home. Both those housing areas are gone.

[Elessar]

I only lived on Ft Ord once. Housing was NICE.That was in 68-69. 66-67 and 71-72 we lived on the Presidio of Monterey. That housing was basically a huge apartment complex. Walking to and from school was just "wonderful". 45 degrees downhill to school, and 45 degrees uphill home. Both those housing areas are gone.

Virtually all plowed over and under now.

Was your father ever in Plattsbugh NY, Davis-Monthan in Tucson AZ?

[Gunny]

Virtually all plowed over and under now.

Was your father ever in Plattsbugh NY, Davis-Monthan in Tucson AZ?

Neither place. Funny, we moved a lot, but mostly to the same general areas. Monterey, CA, San ANgelo & San Antonio, TX, Key West and Miami, DC, Eastern Med. we lived on the Marmara Sea in Turkey and Crete, in Greece which for radio activity are pretty close. He was at Keflavik Iceland which was an extension of his commnd at Cardsound Key (Miami)' All of those are Security Service, Linguist/code related bases.

Kansas and IL were the odd men out. Kansas he was with SAC, and I don't know about IL. I didn't ever live with him there.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Neither place. Funny, we moved a lot, but mostly to the same general areas. Monterey, CA, San ANgelo & San Antonio, TX, Key West and Miami, DC, Eastern Med. we lived on the Marmara Sea in Turkey and Crete, in Greece which for radio activity are pretty close. He was at Keflavik Iceland which was an extension of his commnd at Cardsound Key (Miami)' All of those are Security Service, Linguist/code related bases.

Kansas and IL were the odd men out. Kansas he was with SAC, and I don't know about IL. I didn't ever live with him there.

Like you @Gunny, I was married when I joined the AF, so I never spent much time living in the barracks. I was divorcing the woman and never had her with me but that didn't matter. I only lived in the barracks at Nellis AFB for a couple months. I didn't know I could move off base as an AIC until I got to talking to someone who was living off base. He said if you're married you can move off base, so I did. Got Variable Housing Allowance, Basic Allowance for Quarters and Basic Allowance for Sustenance. Course I got a roommate but still, we had a great apartment in Vegas, even had a wet bar. That roommate, by the way, is dead now. Tim Lidstrand from Omaha. Called him up one day and his mother answered and said Tim is no longer with us. I did not know he was bipolar, but I did know he liked to drink. Well, between the bipolar and boozing he shot himself one night... sad. Tim was good people. I was B shop, he was A shop, radar, radio, IFF, that stuff, coded the jets every morning with a new IFF code.

[Gunny]

Like you @Gunny, I was married when I joined the AF, so I never spent much time living in the barracks. I was divorcing the woman and never had her with me but that didn't matter. I only lived in the barracks at Nellis AFB for a couple months. I didn't know I could move off base as an AIC until I got to talking to someone who was living off base. He said if you're married you can move off base, so I did. Got Variable Housing Allowance, Basic Allowance for Quarters and Basic Allowance for Sustenance. Course I got a roommate but still, we had a great apartment in Vegas, even had a wet bar. That roommate, by the way, is dead now. Tim Lidstrand from Omaha. Called him up one day and his mother answered and said Tim is no longer with us. I did not know he was bipolar, but I did know he liked to drink. Well, between the bipolar and boozing he shot himself one night... sad. Tim was good people. I was B shop, he was A shop, radar, radio, IFF, that stuff, coded the jets every morning with a new IFF code.

My first roommate got blown up in Beirut. I never got too close to any Marines much after that. He was also my "bunkie" in boot camp.