[Trombone-l] Basic and trombone (was New place, old desires)

[billdin@comcast.net]

Hey Tom, 



I was an Army puke too, and I did Basic in 1967 at a lovely little place in Texas. I always thought that it had the most romantic name for an Army post that I had ever heard. I wanted to petition Congress to change the name, as I felt that it misrepresented the true feelings expressed by most of it's unfortunate trainees. 



Oh yeah, it is called FORT BLISS! 



Bill Dinwiddie 

billdin at comcast.net 



   
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ervin" <ervint at u.arizona.edu> 
To: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu 
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 12:25:58 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: [Trombone-l] Basic and trombone (was New place, old desires) 

You guys who got to do some music in basic....wow. 

I got drafted in 1966, and there was this war on.  No openings in any   
of the better bands, no projected vacancies. 
I was able to scramble an audition and get a MOS of a trombone   
player, by enlisting for another year, in the Army. 

But boot camp was at Fort Ord.  Seems there was a meningitis outbreak   
at Fort Ord, so each training company was quarantined from all   
others, no mixing.