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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
LOL
Been waaaaayyyy to stupid at work!
Been digging through some of the service's more remote warehouses...and it still amazes me just what some supply officer/nco stashes in remote corners:
Two crates of 3.5-inch bazookas, Korean War issue and never been used!
A propeller from a landing craft....at Fort Hood?!
And among a stack of replacement gun tubes, two tubes for an M-60A2...glad to see some things just never, ever change!
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Yeah some things never change. Went to Ft Picket in '73/4? for LogEx. As a driver I had all kinds of free time. At the time Picket was a ghost fort except for a few areas the VaNG kept up for training purposes, but that was only about 10-15% of the WW2 'temporary' buildings. Those abandoned buildings were OFF LIMITS, but did that stop me and a buddy from exploring? Nope..
Old theater coughed up two cases of BAR magazines in the grease.
Tripod for M1919 MG
Base plate for 60mm mortar...
what would have been a
battalion HQ building we found some old old FMs, a box of maps (none of which were for the local area I might add)
The
Hospital was creepy as we went there late in the day. Trees were growing up through the roof, windows smashed, there was white enamelware everywhere.. urnals, bedpans, washbasins, is what I recall offhand, but we didn't stay long.. pig patrol rolled by and we high tailed it out of there.
But until you jogged the gears and blew some cobwebs away it was a forgotten memory. Some strange things can be found in out of the way places... the theater being the out of placed stuff.