LEFT & CENTER: Two view of Barracks 517, looking south towards The Pentagon. In the left photo, the back of the Headquarters Company Orderly Room can be seen. These views are from July 1970, only a year after these barracks were finally condemned, and HQ Company moved to North Post. |
ABOVE: We will take an "after" photo of this location shortly.
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ABOVE: This view was taken from the cinder-block WAC barracks which were just to the south of the Orderly Room looking west towards the cemetery. The lower part of Columbia Pike is a short distance to the left. The area shown is now Section 60 of the Arlington Cemetery, where 5,000 have been buried as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo taken 1968. |
ABOVE: We will take an "after" photo of this location shortly. |
ABOVE: Each barrack had a 'roster board' which listed names and room numbers (in crayon) for those in Headquarters Company who bunked there. You can see Bill Jentz' name in Room 5A, and Jack Brennan in Room 7A, but the two did not know each other, despite living about 20 feet from each other for over a year, though part of that could be due to both being on shiftwork in The Pentagon. This photo was taken in March 1969 by Bill Jentz. A month later, Headquarters Company moved to the then-new brick barracks on North Post. Those barracks lasted as long as the old wood barracks on South Post- about 30 years- as all but one of them were leveled in 2007 to build even newer barracks. |
