From the Air Force News Service:
(U.S. Air Force photo/Alan Boedeker)
3/10/2010 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- The last of three remaining remnants from Lackland's World War II-era housing facilities, a military open-bay barracks, was moved to a site behind the History and Traditions Museum.
The only basic military training dormitory left from the 1940s, Bldg. 6351 was loaded by a crane onto a flatbed trailer and relocated behind the museum. It will become a part of the museum's enlisted heritage exhibits following renovation and restoration.
The building was moved because of the construction area for a new BMT Airman Training Complex, the first of eight complexes and four dining-classroom facilities being built to replace the current recruit housing and training buildings. Two other remaining open-bay barracks in the construction area were torn down.
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"You're going to step back in time," said Mr. English about restoration plans. "If you came here in the 1950s, '60s or '70s and lived in one of these two-story dorms, you'll recognize it when you walk in.
"At least one side will be renovated like it was in the '60s with beds and we'll have (uniformed) mannequins in various positions (to simulate) making up a bed."
Interactive displays also are being considered which Mr. English said would give returning Airmen an opportunity to reclaim some past victories on how fast they can make a bed with military corners.
"It would definitely be a treat for them (to come back and relive the past)," he said. "We are always impressed and interested to hear their stories about when they were here."
Yeah... I have a whole slew of stories about bed-making, any one of which might have been the highlight of my USAF basic training experience. Yet somehow my nostalgia button ain't being pressed all that hard, yanno? OTOH... I might have lived in that barracks in the way-back, seeing as how it was one of perhaps several hundred back in 1963. That otta be worth something. Maybe.
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