Camp Crockett (Augusta, Georgia)

USA / Georgia / Harlem / Augusta, Georgia
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Operated until February 1969 to train Infantry that were going to Airborne school.
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Coordinates:   33°22'23"N   82°14'12"W

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  • I spent two months training at comp crockett in 1968 and it was the most mentally and physically chalenging time of my life. May God bless those who served with me as the TET offensive was going on at the time and we were infantry. Need I say more.
  • did my AIT at crockett in July -august 1968 then to benning for jump school straight to viet-nam. what ever happen to Crockett and the no showers and out houses???? looked at the maps but no listing
  • Try this site. http://www.vietvet.org/crocket.htm I was part of the first group through in 1967. I heard years later that only 50 of us made it back. I spent my last year as a teenager in Nam, all of 1968 and I was blessed by God for being part of the 50 who made it back. I think more about Crockett than Nam not sure why. Maybe it's because Nam was Nam and Crookett should never have been.
  • I arrived at Camp Crockett in Nov. of 68 and showered at Litner Pond a few times. Remember the small fuel oil stoves in the quonset huts? Remember the PX trailer? Remember the shuttle bus ride from main post down Range Road to Gibson Road where Crockett was? I do. The remains of Camp Crockett are still visable using Google Maps..Just follow Range Road to Gibson road with Litner pond as your land mark..If you were there you'd know Litner Pond was about 200 yards from the camp.
  • Those who trained at Crockett were apart of a very special fraternity..The 7th bridgade camp was only open about two years before it was realized it couldn't be operated to anything close to military standards..Here is a thread that contains more info about Camp Crockett then your likely to find anywhere..Even the internet contains very little information about Camp Crockett. http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=345990
  • I was there from July thru August 69.All I can do is shake my head..One hell of a place.Only the strong survive.God Bless those of who did.
  • January and February 1969. One of the worst places to train. Still around in 2014 but kinda old.
  • I arrived at Camp Crockett Late November 1967 and Left February 1968.. I have pictures that I took at Camp Crockett, Jump School at Ft. Benning was next. BILL GRIST
  • I was at Crockett Dec.68 -Jan.69 before I went to Benning. Closest company to the hand-to-hand sand/sawdust ring. For the entire company, we had two lister bags for drinking water in the middle of the company street. There was the story that someone in our company kept dumping a can of piss into the bags of the neighboring company. They were going to court martial the guy that did it until the men of the neighboring company pleaded with their captain to let him keep doing it because it took the taste of wet canvas away.
  • 33°22'23"N 82°14'12"W .I was there in Sept of 68 a place you will never forget....Mike Van Meter
  • I was at Camp Crockett from Dec 68-Feb 69 then on to Ft Benning, I do remember the lister bag in the company street which was frozen most of the time and also the showers at Lightner pond shower house once a week if you didn't miss the truck. And who could forget the yukon stoves in the quonset huts, I was also lucky to be on guard duty one night when someone threw a smoke grenade in our px trailer and then gunfire broke out at one of the barracks and who could forget the outdoor toilet that someone rigged a hand grenade to so that when you opened it boom and someone did. I was also lucky enough to have my rifle stolen while I was at chow, we had to stack arms in the street and when I got out it was gone, my platoon sergeant was determined enough to help me find it, I think the guy who took it was going to sell it. Just a few of the fond memories from Camp Crockett.
  • I arrived at Camp Crockett February 1968. Porto-lets, no running water, crappy food, cold and dirty all the time. No blank adapters for M-16s, running around with an M-14 on one shoulder and an M-16 on the other. The crazies, suicides, gang rapes, violence. and now I find out we were smack dab in the middle of an Agent Orange testing area. The hits just keep on coming.. oh, before I forget... Hey Bruno I bet that Brasso tasted like shit.. You still owe me a can.
  • My uncle was there Nov-Dec, 1967. Looking for more information about the place.
  • I was there late March-early June 1969 at E-8-3, Airborne Preparatory Infantry AIT. As I recall, it was located on the main post, not too far from the main EM club. Buildings were the usual 1917 "temporary" uninsulated fiberboard-clapboard construction two-storey, with NCO rooms on the second floor. So, apparently, the program remained, but they moved it to the facilities on the main post. We had newly-minted SGT E-5s from the "Shake & Bake" course at Fort Benning as our sort-of Trainee Platoon Sergeants, doing their 9 weeks of OJT before shipping out for Viet Nam, in addition to regular Drill Sergeants assigned for each platoon. Each company included the three major Infantry specialties: 2 platoons of 11B (riflemen), one of 11C (mortarmen), and one of 11H (recoilless riflemen). Never used an M-16 until a year later when I got to a TO&E unit (82nd).
  • There was an old C-119 parked as a display in the NW corner of the vacant lot to the west of our company area.
  • Crockett was such a joke Oliver Hardy was born not two miles away in Harlem. Just walk down Range Road to Hwy 47 - the up 47 for a mile and your in Harlem. We never knew at the time we were so close to real beer and women, and no one told us either. lol
  • This was the hell hole of the army. was there Feb '69 - April '69. Quanzit huts, little oil burning stoves for heat, cold water showers outside toilets. Demoralizing as hell. Went on to Nam served with the 1st Cav. 12 months in the field assigned to machine gun team.
  • Camp Crockett was the 7th Bn, and was not on Main Post, The 8th was- and the folks at Crockett would have thought those 2 story WW 2 barracks were heaven. Crockett was off in the woods, Quonset huts, cold showers, and rampant crime and violence. Oh- and they forgot to mention- Agent Orange was test sprayed at Gordon in 1967. About 600 gallons, helicopter spray for testing.
  • I just got my brother's military records from the National Personnel Records Center. He had passed away 20 years ago and I'm doing research for his daughters. Bob was 11 C 10 sent to fort Gordon for advanced infantry training. The only infantry training at the fort I could find was at Camp Crockett. His papers list Co A 7th TngBn 3rd Tng Regt. He started training Sept 19 , 1966 and was enroute to USAR RVN on Nov 19th 1966. Any further info on this camp would be appreciated.
  • correction , USAR - PAC ... He served in HHC 2nd Bn 35 Regt 3rg Brg 25th Infantry Div Dec 1966 - Nov 30 1967
  • Tom Evans I'd have to look up the dates I was there but it was just before Christmas. Cold, I remember the crunch of gravel under foot at morning formation. Our DI had a hair lip, remember him? I remember the oil stoves, outside toilets, the ice storm on our bivouac and waking up in a frozen ice covered mummy bag, the PX trailer was a highlight. One night we were locked in out Quonset hut because the company next door was rioting, there was a taxi driver killed with an entrenching tool and I remember going on the main post to the PX on a weekend. We'd go up to a group of troops BSing and start to talk, they'd ask us where we were from and when we said Camp Crockett they all would just back away and leave. I passed on going Air Borne, straight to the NAM, C 2/2 (MECH) 1st INF DIV. Don't know that I'd want to do it again but I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
  • I remember all the details you mentioned except we were placed on marshall law the night of the riots. This was November of 1968. One of the companies was made up of early release convicts. Went to jump school the next month in December. I volunteered for Viet Nam and ended up assigned to the 3rd Inf Bn (The Old Guard) Military District of Washington (MDW) Arlington VA
  • Ring Neck D/2/503rd 173rd airborne Bong Son central highlands 1968
  • Was there Aug and Sept 1968 instead of jump school went home for leave then straight to Nam spent my year in 1st Squadron 4th Cavalry Big Red One . Labor Day 1968 they ransacked the PX's at Camp Crockett we made sweeps trying to find stolen items don't remember finding anything but rattlesnakes
  • Was there in 1969. Was a holdover from basic training. Army felt a college grad in accounting would be great at airborne infantry so got shipped out to Crocket. Made sense to someone. The Captain called me to his office on day 2 and assigned me to his office and that was the last I saw of quanset huts. I have a lot of respect for all the guys that completed training at crocket.
  • I believe I was in the first group and hated every minute of that place. we were met in a open field and greeted by a 1star Gen ( I believe his name was Big Stick Richardson ) sometime in the early morning . No food, no place to stay, on the first day . we moved to the quanset huts. Killers and Boys scouts mixed together . Two stepping in my Quanset huts. So glad I got out of that place. dropped out of Jump school once I arrived at Ft. Benning .
  • It was open past 1969!! I was there in January & part of February 1970. Blew my knee out in training and ended up at Brooks Army Hospital and Medical Discharge. I have an artificial knee thanks to that place.
  • On September 22, 1967, I too also went to camp Crockett after completing 10 weeks of basic training and then on to jump school at Ft Benning GA. My orders were for. A/ 3/503rd 173 Abn Inf, at Bong Son, were l humped the highlands and rice paddies. It was these 21 weeks of training that allowed me to survive this tour with the Herd, and an additional second tour with the 5th Special Forces Group Abn for two more years in Nam at Camp A236 Bu prang. Subsequently, from those claustropholic escapades trained well and blessed to have make it back period. l am now stronger from those experiences and want to wish all the military and the Vets....Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
  • 1968 - 1971, active duty, I was an 11C2P, infranty wepons, 81MM. I was at Camp Crockett April 68. Afterwards went to jump school at Benning, then to; A company, 2nd Bat 509th airborne Mechanized. I was lucky and ended up in Germany. Soldiers in our training unit were all pre-Airborne trainees. I remember Crockett well, it was a camp specifically built for training those going to Nam. We trained a lot, ran a lot, did a lot of push ups every day, no paved roads, gravel between all Quonset huts, exercised on the gravel, crossed swamps, a few snakes swimming by, red ants crawling on you, redish soil, hot and humid, shower water was ikely swamp water, it seemed to change skin to reddish tone, had to hike the several miles to base on weekends to get to PX etc. MP’s didn’t even patrol the camp. Leg’s on base (no offense meant) diidn’t care for us much. As I recall, they were primarily Signal Core? And or Nursing Core? The Camp did have a mock Viet Cong village a few klicks pout we practiced against. Also, remember the Black Lable Beer. LOL. I am originally from Southern California, Retired now in Colorado, with Kids, Grandkids and a Great Granddaughter, I used GI Bill and finished with a Bachelor of Science in Business. I don’t know about everyone else, but Crockett made me stronger mentally and physically. Let’s continue to remember those who did’t make it back. Thank for your service gentlemen. Airborne, All the Way.
  • I too was at Camp Crockett in that first group in 1967. We first stayed in cinder block buildings on the main post before moving out to the newly completed Camp Crock-a-shit. After jump school went to Fort Bragg for SF training but quit and ended up in the 509th Abn in Mainz Germany. In October '68 I went to A Co. 3/503d under the command of Huba Was de Cege iat Bao Loc Lam Dong Province. I was in Lima platoon you would have been a short timer. You may have known a guy named Cox and an E-5 we called Gabby. I remember a guy named Dunn who was in the gunslingers.
  • I was at Camp Crockett during the fall of 1968. Quonset huts, porta-potties, one large Lister bag hung near the main entrance. The showers were about 1/4 mile from the Quonset huts. I made the trip maybe twice in the ten weeks I was there. Mostly we just rinsed off in the afternoon rains. A bunch of naked guys standing around trying to cool off and rinse off some of the gunk growing on our skin. The night before we were to ship out, several of us blew up a porta-potty behind my Quonset hut. MPs showed up in a Jeep with a M60 mounted in the back seat. No one blabbed, so we all had to pay for the porta-potty as we went through our last pay call. I hated almost every minute I was at Camp Crockett. Today I appreciate the training. I now know I can endure a lot more duress than I once did. Not something I would care to do again, but I am glad I had the experience and training. In the Army's infinite wisdom, me and maybe thirty others in my company had our orders changed at the last minute before going to jump school. I was sent to Germany to guard tanks and other heavy vehicles. Being Infantry trained and small arms qualified, I was assigned to be our company armorer and CO's driver. To this day I carry a small guilt around with me knowing hundreds who trained like me went on to Nam. They served and probably many died. I trained the same as they did, but I spent my time in a country that didn't like me being there and a place where I could not speak the language. God Bless out current military personnel.
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