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I for one am sorry to see the move. Knox is only 280 miles away, Benning is 650. I'll probably never get to see the new place.
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I for one am sorry to see the move. Knox is only 280 miles away, Benning is 650. I'll probably never get to see the new place.
I started going to the old AF musuem when I was a kid. Dad probably took me at least once a month.I hope it would be a cold day in you know where if they decided to move the National Museum away from Wright-Patterson.
Not that I go there very often it is a sense of pride in being able to live in the area with all this aviation history.
The one day I was on Ft Knox we went to the Patton Museum and it was closed. Going out on one of the ranges while the guard was having a live fire exercise with M60s (armor) more than made up for it though. Nothing like standing next to a tank when the main gun goes off.
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So are you going to be moving as well?we are takeing most of the collection of armor with when we move we are all ready hett'ing stuff down every monday i'll make take some good pic's as well as the new armor cav museum will be 3 times larger then the current patton patton museum.
I liked the old infantry museum at Benning. It had style and character you can only get from an old creepy building full of cool stuff. The new museums tend to be long on sorry looking diaramas and short on actual equipment and displays of interesting stuff.
I was not going to make that comment lonegunman but I'm glad you did...now I can express my feelings toward the new Infantry Museum.
It is unfortunately exactly that...a collection of diaramas and pictures. There are certainly some impressive uniforms, assorted weapons and a very few MV's. In fact I think all the vehicles inside include a bradley, a WWII GP jeep and a mule. The mule has no seats..just steering..engine and deck.
Nearly everything is behind ropes or glass.
A friend and I toured the museum again last Wednesday and we both agreed the old Museum was far superior.
Don't get me wrong...it's an incredible facility..depending on who you ask $86 to $91 million worth! But after my second tour I was moved to name it "The Past Behind Glass".
As you said...it is a high-tech...non-touchy-feeling type operation.
There are NO vehicles displayed outside, don't know if there are plans to but the landscaping would lead me to believe not.
It is definately worth touring but as a career Infantry Soldier I have to say
i am disappointed after touring the old museum many times.
I can only hope the new Armor Museum planners will keep that museum more along the lines of the Patton Museum at Ft Knox which I toured long ago and was just amazed.
I have some pictures a friend and I took in the 1968 to 1970 era of the original Patton museum, mostly of the outside displays because the old Brownie camera didn't have a flash. We were going to school in Louisville at the time and that was a favorite hangout on weekends. I remember the wide ruts in the road from tank traffic and the warning signs along the way warning that the tanks had right of way. The new museum was much larger but didn't have the same atmosphere of old canvas, wool uniforms, and leather that the new one had. I can't imagine after they move it that it won't be even more sanitized. I quess that's what they call progress. I'll have to see if I can find that album and post some of the pictures.I would be sorry to see the Patton Museum move from Fort Knox, although Benning is much closer to where I live. I took Basic at Knox (D-17-5) in 1970, followed by AIT at Fort Knox (D-5R-2), where I received my 11-Delta MOS and there are a lot of memories from that time. For AIT I was in the Disney Barracks (AKA Disneyland). I reported for Basic on January 5, 1970 and it was COLD!! I remember pulling guard duty at the Patton Museum and even worse, pulling Fire Duty in the freezing cold. Fire duty for those that might not know is where you were responsible for shovelling coal into the coal-fired furnaces in the different buildings, the Patton Museum being one. Being stationed at Fort Knox for five months of training is where I first startedt o appreciate MVs. This was firmed up by duty in Germany with the 3rd Armord Division. I really enjoyed visiting the Patton Museum during my tenure at Fort Knox and I have visited it several times since. My other memories of Fort Knox include the terrible dust clouds from all of the armored vehicles running around, mostly M60s, M113s and M114s. I have a lot of photos of the Patton Museum from 1970. I'll see if I can find some to post.
Okay I have to respond with an off topic lame joke.First the national Boy Scout museum moved from Murray, now the Patton museum is moving from Ft. Knox, I wonder what's next?
I vote we move the state capital from Frankfort to Nome Alaska.
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