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panamadan · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 174

good points Don. I think that many posts should look as this as a example that they should emulate.
Dan

Dontos · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

BTW: My years of wreaking tanks ended in 2006, when I retired.

All my restoration work is a pennance for the years of tank wreaking...LOL!!

Regards
Don

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:11 am Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Don,
I'm curious how you were able to work out this range survey trip with the range control folks. Are these ranges that are in less use since the BRAC move? Or unrelated?

Neil

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:22 am Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

- Neil_Baumgardner

Don,
I'm curious how you were able to work out this range survey trip with the range control folks. Are these ranges that are in less use since the BRAC move? Or unrelated?

Neil

Yes Don...tell us the nitty-gritty, Inquiring minds want to know! And we want names! Laughing

Just kidding (Neil)....to be fair, I suspect less activity and unused ranges have a lot to do with it (but I also look forward to the "official" version). Times change, too, when I visited some years ago, wandering downrange was out of question, which is funny now, because "back in the day", wandering (and indeed officially sanctioned activities and duties, like test projects) up and down ranges on foot and in vehicles was No Big Deal (ordnance concerns, etc. were ignored). The PSS-2 searchlight project specifically involved troops and vehicles (jeeps, truck and tanks) traipsing up the middle of range grounds at night trying to establish detection limits of the searchlight. I guess OSHA or somebody would be all over that s**t now. It's all fun until somebody gets blowed up*. Wink

*which never happened, in my 2+ years at Planet Knox.

Dontos · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:37 am Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Neil

There has been some significant personnel turn over. The people we contacted were mutually interested in Ft Knox History and it got better from there.

As for the 'searches' they are escorted and with appropriate safety briefings and understandings.

We haven't gone into any impact areas, just downrange areas. There are some places on Ft Knox we won't be able to go, too many big or little things go boom,....

Regards
Don

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Yeah, I was just wondering how it was done - naturally wondering if something similar could be feasible at APG...

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

- Neil_Baumgardner

Yeah, I was just wondering how it was done - naturally wondering if something similar could be feasible at APG...

I don't know if it is the same with APG as Fort Knox, but there are numerous cemetaries on post left over from the communities and churches that were displaced as the post expanded over the years. I happened to meet the post "historian" who oversees the cemetaries at a CG event at the museum who was very interested in our proposal. From that contact it progressed on to others also interested and now to our current situation. You may want to see if APG has a post historian who would be interested in seeing what is out there.

Good luck.
Garry

TerryStibal · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 4:30 am Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Just for the record, OSHA does not have jurisdiction over active duty personnel. Civilian employees, yes, but not the troops.

T. Stibal, former OSHA assistant area director

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Armor for the Ages has been updated with a new section, GHOSTS OF FORT KNOX Part II. Also, check out the second installment of director Chris Kolakowski's video of changes in the Patton Museum.

armorfortheages.com/GG...PMmain.htm

Garry

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:29 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

The Patton Museum volunteer section has been updated with news of the grand opening of the General George Patton Museum of Leadership on June 14 and photos in the Volunteer News section on recent work on exhibits.

armorfortheages.com/GG...PMmain.htm

Garry

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

As has been posted already in this forum, the Patton Museum had its official grand opening/rededication on June 14. Armor for the Ages has been updated to show this event and updates to the Patton Museum Photo Tour section as well as some news bits from NACM at Fort Benning.

armorfortheages.com/

To go directly to the Patton Museum Volunteers home page to see the opening ceremony of the Patton Museum of Leadership rededication and grand opening and a new Patton Museum Photo Tour section that reflects the changes to the museum's exhibits, click on the link below.

armorfortheages.com/GG...PMmain.htm

To go directly to the National Armor and Cavalry Museum home page with an updated NACM News section showing the progress on the restoration of vehicles to be used in the new armor exhibit inside the Infantry Museum, click on the link below.

armorfortheages.com/NA...CMmain.htm

Garry

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Chris Kolakowski, director of the Patton Museum of Leadership, has announced that he will accept an offer by the city of Norfolk, Virginia, to become the next director of the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial. His last day at the museum will be August 30 and he will start his new position on September 16.

Garry

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

A new section has been added to Armor for the Ages. This is the third range search at Ghosts of Fort Knox, Part III.

armorfortheages.com/GG...ctPage.htm

Garry

the_shadock · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: News from Ft Knox

Garry,

I've heard of someone who has an M26 Pershing hull and who's looking for a turret. I know that there is one on a range in Fort Knox. Do you think that there is a possibility for a private collector to acquire it?

thanks

P-O