My generation spent some time in one of the U. S Military forces. Only a few of us will forget Boot Camp. However, before I went to Boot Camp I along with most of the other youths in Weatherford, joined the National Guard, mainly to keep from being drafted but almost as importantly we could buy beer at the amory and for only 25 cents a can. Falstaff or Lone Star was then the beer of choice. The third idea of joining was to get an electronic school in the Signal Corp.
*Pictures of Weatherford National Guard follow:
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In due time I opted for Radio Repair School, and was sent to Augusta, Georgia and Camp (later Fort) Gordon. That was a let down as we were promised we would go to Fort Monmouth, NJ near New York City. The two of us went, the other lad went to the Morse Code school for Radio Operators, had no Boot Camp or Basic training not much in the way of military training at all, when we arrived in Camp Gordon. Captain Work was the captain of our company in 1949. He held a barracks inspection one day shortly after our arrival and he tore us apart. I got on the KP band wagon. But all the companies had a day each 2 or 3 weeks when they were held out of school and went to company duty. My duty was always KP. Captain Work left for Korea a few months after we arrived and Captain Heaton took over the company.
*pictures here of Augusta, GA and Camp Gordon. Click on the small picture to see a larger size
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More Pictures to come as soon as my scanner gets repaired