Chapter 9
1970 Fort Gordon
1/29/2009
black, white, colored and shades of gray
Rather than text, this video may give a better feel of the mood of previous Ch 144B. When I opened that box of chocolates 40 yrs ago it turned out to be an assortment. That time has a special meaning for me. Not sure what? Maybe a little tolerance, maybe a little empathy.
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video notes to self:
Aug 69 pfc Steve Fischer muster for road patrol behind our barracks
Mar 70 pfc (Floyd) Wally Walfield Chateaugay (current Asst Police Chief Veterans Affairs Birmingham, Alabama) on duty Gate 1or 5 heading for the Gordon Hwy and Bobby Jones Expressway
Oct 69 Mark McGinty, spc4 Frank Walters (Riverrat, 50 cal machinegun-boat, Mekong River Vietnam), pfc Gene Flynn, pfc Ed Hunter ready for stockade duty to ride with me in '55 chev
Apr 70 pfc newguy Johnson, Peters, Steve fast Moore, Pitts, Jansen (Berlin, NY) rear of barracks
Jun 70 blank, Dane Moyer, Joe Hutchinson, me, Steve Pelligrini, wife three '70 Fiat trip to Charlestown, SC National Seashore beach
video May 13, 70 Interview James Brown about riots prior 2 nights in Augusta, negro Charles Oatman's abusive death
video May 12, 70 Interview Governor , & Lester Maddox , riots due to conspiracy? [ Chronicle retrospective1 , Chronicle retro 2 , Socyberty ]
May 69, Wilt Bennet, me, Jack McMahon pith helmets, MP School FT Gordon
training huts on the range
45 cal semi automatic pistol range
May 69 parade rest mess hall formation awaiting chow MP school
May 69 Falstaff Beer 3.2 party end of MP training
May 69 1st Squad 2nd Platoon graduation, khakis uniform, await orders for assignment to ?
squad leader, Bennett, me
Aug 69 140th MP Company assignment at Ft Gordon
Chevy road patrol squad car
Aug 69 pfc "bearman" Olmsted green fatigues and my personal car 55 Chev Belair going on duty
Stockade and Correctional Holding Detention, general compound
Max Security Cell Block
Oct 69 Ed Hunter and me
Hunter bunk mate
me, dress greens uniform, barracks floor always roped off to keep waxed buffed and spotless for inspection
Eugene Geno Pitts Atlanta gave everyone a nickname, took months to understand his drawl
Geno, comic books and sprite
Bruce "stupid" Patellis, Steve "head" Stevens , Okinawawa. Stupid bad mouthed the Army for 2 yrs then re-upped and with signing bonus bought a big orange or lime 1970 Plymouth Superbird with huge spoiler.
Jun 70 Dane Moyer (Pottstown, PA) apartment, MP-peacenik
Steve Pelligrini and Dane off duty
Steve Moore (East St Louis Mo), Ed Hunter (LA & San Diego) new Camaro visit my Augusta house rental (landlord-whites only to rent)
one of several roommates Bill "wildman" Brown, Joe Cromer, Craig Wiley, Bill Chiche, Jack Hendrickson, Joe Hutchinson,
Jan 70 snow shut down Fort for a day, (coal fired boiler smoke I stoked as fireman in MP School- converted to gas as Post Engr Master Planner giving me credit for Environmental Engineer position and Professional Engineer license to come)
Post Engineer assignment
drafting table with rapidograph pens on mylar
Arnold Palmer was far from the leaders in the Masters I attended, but I washed my clothes at his Laundromat blocks from my house. Post Engr civilian gave me his prized tickets for one day. Bill Casper won that year Apr 1970, Nicklaus a few strokes back.
69 shack homes, countryside, watermelon wagon?, Rich. Co. Jail chain gang