Both my nephews went through there in the last five years for different training courses, one enlisted, one commissioned.

I was able to drive up to see my one commissioned nephew graduate in late July, they were out of regular suites to put him in in the college dorm-type buildings so they put him in a senior officer grade suite, came with extra blankets, extra fluffy pillows and a white bathrobe, plus booze in a refrigerator, which we couldn't touch. The enlisted guy (the one that did a tour in Afghanistan) graduated from there when high school was in session so I couldn't get free. To a casual visitor like me what I saw looked like a college campus and the Px was like a supermarket.

Stopped in on the way home at Wilson's Creek Battlefield (1861) over by Springfield.





"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744