Snodgrass Cabin---Training

[Gettmore]

Was lucky to be there when these men were training...

 

[111thNYSV]

En Garde!

 

[Gettysburg Guide #154]

"You'll poke your eye out!" "Not with these cool sunglasses."

 

[EJ Zander]

"You'll poke your eye out!" "Not with these cool sunglasses."

Getty Lee called and wants his sunglasses back.

 

[unionblue]

@Gettmore ,

Ah! The lost art of bayonet training!

It was the one exercise I excelled at during my own Basic Combat Training while stationed at Ft. Dix, NJ, way back in 1971. (I only wish I had some cool sunglasses while I had my training.)

Thanks for the pictures and the memories.

 

[Reverend Ron]

@Gettmore ,

Ah! The lost art of bayonet training!

It was the one exercise I excelled at during my own Basic Combat Training while stationed at Ft. Dix, NJ, way back in 1971. (I only wish I had some cool sunglasses while I had my training.)

Thanks for the pictures and the memories.

Such training was indispensable if you were heading into either Philly or Trenton on a Saturday night.

 

[Virginia Dave]

@Gettmore ,

Ah! The lost art of bayonet training!

It was the one exercise I excelled at during my own Basic Combat Training while stationed at Ft. Dix, NJ, way back in 1971. (I only wish I had some cool sunglasses while I had my training.)

Thanks for the pictures and the memories.

I was there in 1971. Was injured during training and spent a month in Walson Army Hospital. I still carry the scars. My room mate was David Berkowitz. Does that name sound familiar to you?

 

[redbob]

The old thrust and parry takes me back to my days at MCRD San Diego in 1970. I always figured that if they got so close that I needed a bayonet, things had taken a definitely serious turn.

 

[unionblue]

@Gettmore ,

Ah! The lost art of bayonet training!

It was the one exercise I excelled at during my own Basic Combat Training while stationed at Ft. Dix, NJ, way back in 1971. (I only wish I had some cool sunglasses while I had my training.)

Thanks for the pictures and the memories.

I was there in 1971. Was injured during training and spent a month in Walson Army Hospital. I still carry the scars. My room mate was David Berkowitz. Does that name sound familiar to you?

I enlisted July 31, 1971, and went to Ft. Dix for the next 8 weeks of Basic Training. I had about 35 roommates in an open bay on the 3rd floor of my white, concrete-block barracks. Delta 2-2 was my outfit during that time. Don't recall a David Berkowitz.

My nickname in the Company and what I was called for the entire time was, "Preacher," mainly because when are duffle bags were opened and searched by the Drill Sergeants, the Bible presented to me by my church as a going-away present fell out. The name stuck and my fellow trainees thought I really was a preacher for the rest of my time there.