Moving Company C
Moving C Company:
When I was first at Devens in 59-60 I had the pleasure of participating in the moving of C Company and the rest of 1st Student Battalion from the Robbins pond area up the hill to the barracks behind the PX and the other community facilities. At the time D Company was disolved into A, B, and C Companies.
Using the word "pleasure" is the most polite way I can say it.We came marching in from school in the late afternoon, Friday, cold, ready for the weekend. Formation held in ranks, unusual. The First Sergeant comes out to address the company, also unusual.
"The Company is moving up the hill to new barracks. In fact the entire battalion is moving--D Company to be absorbed by A, B, and C Companies. The Pass Box is closed. No one will leave until the entire company and ALL it owns is in the new barracks and squared away."
This included everything -- bunks, lockers, day room, orderly room, everything, plus each company had to provide detail people to move the Mess Hall and everything in it but the reefers & stoves.. The Army gave us two deuce and a halves to help us. This was in 59-60, remember, there might have been 10-15 cars total that could also help -- in a company of near 300 students.
The MPs finally closed the road between the old and new areas after a couple hours as there was something like 800-900 exhausted troops and all that stuff scattered in disarray from point A-B
The company finally got it all there, arranged (more or less) in the right platoons and mostly crammed away. The CO and First Sergeant opened the weekend pass box around 0230 in the morning, but just about everyone just collapsed.
TomH
Co C, 1st Stu Bn
USASATC&S
Oct 59 - Jun 60