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I might buy that if it weren’t for Fort Jackson.
I assure you, Forest Acres, SC, does not need that much guarding.
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Yeah, but there’s three awesome restaurants by the back gate that I want protected with all of the Army’s might.
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]
Camp Pendleton is temporary?
Camp LeJeuene is temporary?
Edit: The Marine/Army distinction makes more sense.
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“Permanent” and “temporary” are elastic terms. The Navy operated out of Main Navy, The Munitions Building, and the W Building for years and they were temporary structued erected during WWI to conduct that operation.
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“Permanent” and “temporary” are elastic terms.
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Oh, don’t get me started. My undergrad advanced comp professor took issue with my use of the term “permanently mounted” in referring to the built-in furniture in my dorm room. IIRC, his exact words were, “Let’s see how permanent they are if you give me five minutes and a sledgehammer.”
Oh, and allow me to be the first to point out that I misspelled “Lejeune” in the original post. Missed the edit window.
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]
Oh, don’t get me started. My undergrad advanced comp professor took issue with my use of the term “permanently mounted” in referring to the built-in furniture in my dorm room. IIRC, his exact words were, “Let’s see how permanent they are if you give me five minutes and a sledgehammer.”
Oh, and allow me to be the first to point out that I misspelled “Lejeune” in the original post. Missed the edit window.
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Are you actually trying to tell us that professors can be pedantic at times?
I would never suggest such a thing. This guy was just a prick.
Thanks for all the info and guesses. And the breastworks. Fort A.P. Hill IS in the mountains. I found this site for the fort and it mentions that it started as a “Military Reservation”, It later became a “camp” and was that when I traveled on a state road thru it when finding an alternate route to I-95 in my periodic trips between Georgia, the Carolinas, and New England in the '80s.
I noticed on roadmaps later that it was now a “fort” vs. "camp.
The training or no trining is not a factor in the designation as Hill is a training facility as are many, as cited above. I’ll search the miitary websites.
Hill also hosts the Boy Scouts Jamboree.
Thanks again.
And speaking of breastworks, when I was enrolled in a Naval “A” school at Bainbridge, MD Naval Training Center (many years ago), I ran into a female Drill Instructor of the WAVES (female US Navy recruits) boots that I had gone thru high school with in Mass. a few years earlier.
(I guess I can hijack my own post.)
[QUOTE=Ignatz]
Fort A.P. Hill IS in the mountains.
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Which mountains would they be? I’ve driven route 301, which nearly bisects this reservation, and I might characterize the terrain as hilly, but far from mountainous. In fact, I can’t think of anything east of the entire length of I-95 that I’d call a mountain.
Or am I missing a big whoosh here??
Oh, and Navy facilities aren’t all bases - I spent many years working aboard the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, and the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, and the Naval Air Station, Pensacola.