I have a tin Marx building on my layout, very close to the old wooden ones. WE had the updated wood barracks at Harmony Church, Ft. Benning where we trained as infantry in 1957. Later while doing WW II re-enacting we stayed in them at different bases. At that time, in the 1980s, at Ft. Indiantown Gap we stayed in some old original WW II barracks, still open but the latrines weren't as good. I marveled at the design of those buildings. The military got their money's worth out of them. In Germany we were issued the M59s, the vet NCOs we had weren't impressed. Called them "death traps' but more comfortable.
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