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Originally Posted by manaboutown
I was stationed at Ft. Jackson, SC in 1965. The barracks were terrible, uninsulated firetraps. Soft coal was burned to warm the shower water. Of course burning it seriously polluted the environment. We did morning pushups in a low lying cloud of coal smoke. If a man blew his nose into a handkerchief lots of black soot was deposited into the cloth. Ugh!
Freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. the barracks were not insulated, heated or cooled. It was a dump!
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Quote from Infantry Museum. “During the 1940s, Fort Benning rapidly expanded to meet the demands of the WWII military buildup. These “series 700” buildings were intended to last only as long as the war, but they proved to be so solidly constructed, they were kept in use well into the 1990s.”
Coal was the fuel used by most homes including the apartment building I lived in so I did not notice and difference and never blew black stuff from my nose although I did plenty of pushups. Someone was on Fire Duty every night shoveling coal so even if there was a fire I doubt anyone would be trapped.