By THE BAYONET, Lori Egan

Construction begins for Armor School basic combat training barracks

The Armor barracks complex groundbreaking at Harmony Church Tuesday was a historic event for the Army because it signifies Fort Benning’s transition to the Maneuver Center of Excellence and the colocation of Infantry and Armor training.

The significance of the day was not lost on 18-year-old Pvt. Nicolas Torres, who helped set up the tents and hand out programs for the ceremony.

“It’s historic and makes me proud I enlisted as an Infantryman,” he said. “We’re on the battlefield with tankers and now we’ll be training with them. It really is one force — one fight.”

Both the Infantry and Armor chiefs spoke about working as a combined arms team.

“As an Infantryman with many years in the Army, I will never go on any battlefield again without some tanks to support me,” said Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, Fort Benning’s commanding general, “to bail me out … to provide the shock effect and the thunderbolt action a tank provides


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 Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back." - Hericletus, circa 500 BC

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TwoXForr (2/19/2008)

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Not Harmony Church, that is where I went through Basic, give them the Sand Hilton, and move the Infantry back to the WWII barracks. 

They're gone, dude.  All gone. 

Read about it at my web page:

http://www.geocities.com/martinjmpr/harmonychurch.html

TwoXForr (2/19/2008)

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Not Harmony Church, that is where I went through Basic, give them the Sand Hilton, and move the Infantry back to the WWII barracks. 

There are no more WWII barracks.  Even the foundations are long gone.

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American GI.  One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

"History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS

"If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it." – Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Defend the Second Amendment

TwoXForr (2/19/2008)

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Not Harmony Church, that is where I went through Basic, give them the Sand Hilton, and move the Infantry back to the WWII barracks. 

Nothing but tall pines left out there, bro. I went thru Bravo 2-2 in 87 and stopped there last April....nothing there.


......."If you dream about shooting me, you better wake up and apologize" Reservoir Dog

Accesions Command and TRADOC are going to be at Knox.

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American GI.  One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

"History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS

Farewell to where I sweated to earn blue.

 

"The degenerative and loony should never be denigrated but, rather, thanked. In their absence, the rest of you would be obliged to fill congressional seats... positions naturally unsavory to the sane and honorable."

Thorax