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Originally Posted by The Reaper
I think it would not have been necessary, but for the fact hardly any SF guys had been there for years.
I have been maybe three times in the past year, more and more, it was a junior PSYOP and CA Club, for a quick drink on the way home (or back to the barracks). Very few customers, almost no SF unless it was a function. We got run out at 1900 one night because they were closing. They used to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, stayed open till the last paying customer left, and recently, they were down to just a few bar menu items after work. I didn't even see any of the jalapeno popcorn they used to be famous for. The fact that the MPs used to stake it out has not helped either.
The real problem was that they moved all of the SF off Smoke Bomb Hill, and the remaining SF no longer patronized it.
They really should have moved the Club to the 3rd, 7th, USASOC, USASFC area, and my understanding is that they tried, but the area they wanted to put it in, had red-cockaded woodpeckers there first.
The sad truth is that the SF soldiers and retirees on Ft Bragg have not patronized it, and the best features of the club went away. MWR runs it, and they did not like to lose money. If this remodel fails, they will probably close it for good.
Sadly, I guess its time has come and gone.
TR
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This isn't towards TR, but to evryone, GB or Non-GB. So the club was doing poor and needed a face lift. Hell I remember then face lift of 2004 that SGM Nann did with his crew of SFQC OTs did for the club. So for all of the soldiers in and around the location of the GB, the SF Soldiers and Retirees that had gone or went to the GB Club. If the club was still the GB club and if you seen the TV Show and seen what is looks like now would you have gone or be going to it over going to Charlie Mikes or what ever your local hang out it. I feel another resaon for the demise of teh GB Club was the closing of the post. The fact that Retirees and old timers had to drive onto post, then driven and hang out with fellow Brothers, then drive back off post scared many poeple.
I think a point that Richard brings up is critial. I don't see from a CPTs, to a new MSG to a Senior or flag Officer holding "their" EVENT at the GB club anymore. I was going to hold my retirement party/BBQ or whatever until this happen. I can tell you that members of my ODA still went there to hang out after work, becuase it was our club and we were Green bBerets that cared about our club and not some off post establishment.
Another question, for all the SF people on Bragg that are on here. To all the People working nwo as a Retiree within a SF Unit or Command ever get a Post level, USASFC or USASOC Survey over the renovation of teh GB CLub? I know I never saw one in my Inbox for the USASOC Global or my AKO box. Yet Post conducted a Survey over the renovation for the Club to get the "input" of the Soldiers.