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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3902599, member: 5798"] The meningitis concern was still prevalent when I got there in 1969. We were in the old barracks. We were restricted to our company street. That sucked because we were NOT on the hill in the newer barracks. [B]We had nothing.[/B] No day room, no TV's, no vending machines...............nothing!! We roughed it. The food was great. Yes, at the end of the day, we were all hungry as hell and ate [U]everything[/U] put on our plate, and looked around at everyone else's plate hoping there was something on their plate they didn't want. Every platoon wanted to be first to go in so that after everyone had been served, if they called seconds, you could get more. You couldn't get more if you were still eating. Our company cook knew what seasoning was and how to use it. :( Two MAJOR newsworthy occurrences happened during my 8 weeks there. The 1st moon landing on July 20, and the Tate-LaBianca murders (Charles Manson) in Los Angeles a month later. [/QUOTE]