On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:32:16 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:26:11 -0400, John H.
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:39:06 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:08:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch.
I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt
walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I
could take that guy".
A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking
around ;-)


Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge
belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up.

There were not any live rounds on our side of the base and our drill
rifles did not have firing pins in them. I am not quite sure what arms
we were under. ;-)


We had the belt. That was all.

We wore the belt, canteen, ammo pouches and toted a real M-14...but no ammo.

This was a 2 hour fire watch in the barracks. There was a water
fountain in the hall and if we were going to carry anything it
probably should have been a fire extinguisher. ;-)



We had too walk around outside for a couple hours watching for fire. They
had lots of fire drills at Lackland, but were told if there was a real fire
to exit fast, very fast, forget boots, etc. The barracks were built in
1921and could burn to the ground in a few minutes.

That sounds like the ones we had in Bainbridge FT school. They were
WWII tho. It was all wood construction with asbestos siding, similar
to the smaller "temporary" buildings on the DC mall, that were there
until the 60s (Lady Bird had them destroyed). Those are not to be
confused with the larger "tempo" buildings up around 18th street.
In Cape May we had new concrete block barracks that were pretty
fireproof except for contents.
The funny thing was you could smoke inside at Bainbridge but you had
to go outside to smoke in Cape May.