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Originally Posted by PRB
When did they restrict ID holding visitors?
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When FORSCOM built a command center on CMK and their employees started using the Camp Rowe DFAC.
I was a visitor to CMK several times before I was a student, spent a few cold nights in the tarpaper shacks.
I went through Phase I in Feb 84. We stayed in the tin Quonset huts for the first few weeks, then moved into the tarpaper shacks after we came back from survival. There was one remaining Quonset hut the last time I was there in 2007 or so, it was TMC 14.
Back in my day, the mess hall was a line of mermites or C Ration cases, and we ate on picnic tables outside, regardless of the weather.
There was one small latrine back then, with a half dozen sinks and toilets. There were a few shower heads, and they had one 50 gallon hot water tank for the entire class.
Then they tore down the shacks and built the "million dollar shitter." Then they built an even larger latrine building to accomodate the increased student load.
I stopped and spoke with Lowell the last time a few years back. I just stopped by his WW II HQs building to say hello. It was full of stories, like he was, and it was three hours later before I could get away. The man literally knew more about CMK than anyone alive. I thought he had finished his book, I guess from the article he had not.
RIP, MSG Stevens. See you on the far side.
TR
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