Go Back   Professional Soldiers ® > Special Forces > Special Forces Questions

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 12-23-2010, 20:05   #1
f50lrrp
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Monterey California
Posts: 392
Sharpe Army Depot

Yesterday, as I was driving to Sacramento to visit my Father-in-Law, I drove through Stockton and noticed signs to the Sharpe Army Depot. These signs triggered memories of my time in RVN.

We used to receive crates of obsolete weapons and exotic weapons from the Sharpe Army Depot. Every time that I used an M-1 carbine or an M-2 it came from a crate from Sharpe. Every time that I was issued a Colt Woodsman (silenced) it came from Sharpe... How many of you experienced using weapons from Sharpe Army Depot?
f50lrrp is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-24-2010, 09:51   #2
Sinister
Quiet Professional
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 261
Sharpe was the Army's Pacific through-shipping depot, not necessarily where your weapons originated from.

As a kid I used to watch hundreds of helicopters flying en route from Sharpe railhead to Oakland Army Depot (to be put on ships for RVN).

I'm not sure how active Sharpe is currently, as much of the PACOM stuff now routes through Defense Logistics Agency Depot - Tracy.
Sinister is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-24-2010, 10:09   #3
The Reaper
Quiet Professional
 
The Reaper's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,816
The depots in that area were consolidated and Tracy has most of the activity.

Sharpe is still there, though.

TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
The Reaper is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump



All times are GMT -6. The time now is 18:22.



Copyright 2004-2022 by Professional Soldiers ®
Site Designed, Maintained, & Hosted by Hilliker Technologies