07-09-2014, 14:17
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GB Club gets a makeover
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Crews are working today to revamp a Fort Bragg restaurant as part of a reality television show.
The Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible'' is filming on Fort Bragg today and Thursday for an upcoming episode that revolves around the Green Beret Club.
The restaurant, which has a Special Forces theme, is getting a makeover as part of the show, which features celebrity chef Robert Irvine.
It will reopen later this week, but it's unclear when the episode will air.
The Green Beret Club is off Gruber Road, at the intersection of 9th Infantry and Buker streets.
Irvine has been on Fort Bragg since Monday, visiting with troops and jumping with the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army parachute team.
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07-09-2014, 16:17
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Beat me to it! I look forward to seeing the results.
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07-09-2014, 17:04
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I really hope that someone took possession of all the photos and memorabilia that was in the building so that it can be cataloged and preserved..
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07-09-2014, 17:49
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As long as they continue to serve Jalapeno popcorn, it's worth the trip.
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07-09-2014, 20:25
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It's going to take more than a made for TV makeover to get me excited about the "edifice formerly known as the GBSPC" (or the first time I went there when it was the "5th SFG(A) Area Studies Building").
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07-09-2014, 21:05
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Last time I was there, some years ago in '09, it was pretty much a psyops hang out. Maybe 6 - 7 SF guys and a company or so of pysopers.
Didn't have the same 'feel'.....maybe it's rejuvenated tho.
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07-09-2014, 21:20
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The pussification of the sport parachute clubs...and I thought it was bad enough when they turned the "I Bar" at Fort Benning into a Little Caesars takeout pizza parlor. 
Things like this make me glad my biggest worry now is finishing the dog pen for my hounds under the mulberry behind the machine shop.
Richard
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07-10-2014, 04:07
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The Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible'' is filming on Fort Bragg today and Thursday for an upcoming episode that revolves around the Green Beret Club.
The restaurant, which has a Special Forces theme, is getting a makeover as part of the show, which features celebrity chef Robert Irvine.
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Stras "I really hope that someone took possession of all the photos and memorabilia that was in the building so that it can be cataloged and preserved.."
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Irvine and his little interior designer minion have a track record of "gut & flip".
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About the Show
Turning around a failing restaurant is a daunting challenge under the best of circumstances.
Attempting to do it in just two days with only $10,000 may be ...
More About Restaurant: Impossible
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/res...ml?oc=linkback
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I would be real concerned about the memorabilia.. 
Personally, I just don't trust a 92G on roids who worships FLOTUS ..
YMMV.. 
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07-10-2014, 05:36
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I really hope that someone took possession of all the photos and memorabilia that was in the building so that it can be cataloged and preserved..
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The museum is involved. Roxanne is taking care of the memorabilia.
I here they're gonna make copies of a lot of it, make a presentation, and have it loop playing on a big screen or something like that.
The originals will be stored safely..
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07-10-2014, 05:46
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I miss the old GB back before the last 2 "makeovers".... Late 80's/early 90's before the landscape around the GB changed. It's not the same.
I'll go have a beer there but it'll never be retro'd back the way it was.
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07-10-2014, 17:53
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As long as they continue to serve Jalapeno popcorn, it's worth the trip.
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They stopped that years ago.
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07-10-2014, 18:00
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The Green Beret Club has mustered out a profit that's just enough to keep the doors open, but it has had to make some concessions, McCollum said. The 50-seat restaurant, at 9th Infantry and Buker streets, no long offers dinner or bar service.
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Ok so GB Club will no longer be a bar?? Hell that's the only thing that kept it alive. When they stop having the wings and dinner menu it took a dive down hill hard.
We should have moved it back in 2004 when they remodeled it then. I got the history and location of the building. But nothing around there is SF. That has killed that place.
Well it will be popular again for a few months.
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07-10-2014, 18:14
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If they took down the pictures of our fallen brothers, I will never set foot back in there again.
They should have just moved it to the corner of Desert Storm and Yadkin years ago, but I understand that was squashed by the red-cockaded woodpecker and their tree-hugging, bark-eating lovers.
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07-10-2014, 18:45
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If they took down the pictures of our fallen brothers, I will never set foot back in there again.
They should have just moved it to the corner of Desert Storm and Yadkin years ago, but I understand that was squashed by the red-cockaded woodpecker and their tree-hugging, bark-eating lovers.
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Charlie Mikes seems to have those photos. Even Mckellars has stopped being a bar. Military clubs are history it seems.
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07-11-2014, 09:11
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Irvine and his little interior designer minion have a track record of "gut & flip".
I would be real concerned about the memorabilia..
Personally, I just don't trust a 92G on roids who worships FLOTUS ..
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You are spot on JJ.
Robert Irvine was fired by the Food Network after it was found out he lied on his resume and rehired because the Low IQ Viewers wanted him back. Makes you wonder how many other "Chef's" on the Food Network are actually chefs.......
I've watched Food Network over the years and they are quickly moving away from real food to food reality shows with people that have nothing to do with food.
Anything for money..........
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