Too bad if Fort Ord is a ghost town now. In the early days, it was proposed to make Monterey the capital of California. It could still be done. Rebuild Fort Ord as State Capital. Who the hell needs Sacramento. From a Fort Ord veteran, Basic, company C-4-1, October to December 1963.

Army and Marine Corp should reclaim that base for training potential is endless. Infrastructure in place for any units to occupy except building repairs.

Too bad that the land and buildings can't be used for the homeless.

I live in Marina. Many of the barracks are graffiti-covered, and undergoing demolition. New homes are being built.

Basic training May 1968 then to Reforger 1 then Vietnam back at Ft Ord until May 71 then bye bye

Basic late May - July 1972 H-1-3, 3rd Platoon Leader, Great times

Arrived late May 1972, stayed in on old holding barracks for a couple of days then went up the hill to H-1-3, Great DI's learned a lot, had too much fun. Thank You Ft Ord for all the great memories.

This is when the old fort was still in fairy good shape. That is compared to the disgusting place I seen 3. Years ago. I felt like just burn it down.

I received my Hvy Wepons trng at Ft. ORD IN 1958. Still remember being told "don't step on the ice plants". Loved the surrounding towns.

Went there for AIT Supply

Tear them down. Old warriors are owed that much for their service.

I remember Ft. Ord from my time there in 1971, A-2-1. Being a young 18 yr old from Southern Indiana, I fell in love with the place right off, Sad to see it deteriorate to such a degree but today I hope the mess has been cleaned up and life moves on. Wish they would have built a museum to showcase all the thousands of soldiers that came thru over its time.

I was there 52 years ago today. Just before Vietnam. It was okay for a training base.

I was in the Marines, but back in 92 I went with the first combat engineer battalion out of camp Pendleton to fort ord for 3 weeks!!! they had a place called impossible city, where we trained at!!! IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL BASE AND IT'S A SHAME THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT!!!! SEMPER FI!!!👊👊👊👊💀😇

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great place to place all the homeless people of california. Where are all the WJW's? Letting this place fall apart like this is a national disgrace.

They sure had upgraded the housing lived there in 86 and it was a much smaller houseing are lived 222 n Ord ave in sub standard quarters just down the street from Hays elementary lots of cockroaches lol

Sad sight.I was there from 90-92.lots of hills for running and road marching lol

Hey, u went right past my old barracks. I'm sure it's no longer there. When was this video made?

I was there 1990-1992 14th Engineer Battalion I loved it there but I do believe it was haunted

Donald you knew Tom hall?

I was stationed there between 1986 -1989 at the airfield doing Army weather support

I WAS IN THE 7th AVIATION AT FT.ORD,CA. FROM 1979 thru 1982 LOVED IT GOT TO THE WEST COAST AND HAWAII....

Is this the army base? That's where I was born. My dad was in the army. Thanks for sharing.

i was there from 86 to 89 captain charles j toomey jr was my co and first sargent tennon, my first sargent. i was with hsc 7th s and t bn i was pfc bates, i just went back to visit in september of 2014

oooo come on jesus Christ I think he knew what was going to happen why did he fucking hasatate to put the last x in before the pop up happen

my co was captain charles j toomey jr and first seargent tennon. i wish i could go back to these times

i was stationed at fort ord from 1986 to 1989 i was with hsc company 7th s and t bn, i just came back from visiting ft ord september 2014, i was also lifegaurd at swimming pool as special duty last year i was there, i miss it there, this is pfc bates,

this was Quartermaster row all wear houses home to C.I.F. and all incoming weapons my unit 7TH S&T BN ran all of this i was there from 1976-1978

It's weird. I've never seen the place of my birth until now. I was born there in 1991.

Arrived there the night of Jan. 26, 1955. In Co. C, 63rd. Reg, 6th. Inf. Div. Our group was the first to occupy one of the new concrete barracks. Some were still under construction. Where are you, Rodney Pitts ??

They could do a lot with this. There is so many homeless. And this all is going to waste. Very sad.

Looks like the motor pool, I was stationed there from 1986-1989 with the 301st Trans Co.

I was there in 77'-78' 7th MP's, loved the post! Never should have closed it. Plenty of room to build, mild weather, near Fort Irwin desert training area.

I went to Ft. Ord for boot camp 1970. was drafted. became a combat medic. very different world then. spent some good times at the beach near Stillwell hall. very idealistic then. there were numerous draftees there. my drill sgt was definitely old school. lean mean fighting machine I didn't care for any of that then but I do have good memories of it now. lots of ice plant. from Colorado mountains. very good experience

Yes the hospital is still there, but a business is being ran out of the builiding.

My grandfather's last duty station was Ft. Ord, he retired from the Army in 1960. He was a combat medic who served during WWII and Korea. Great man.

you must of lived there around 1989/90 or so i went to stillwell elementary around that time ft ord was a great place

crazy i was born there lol

Went to Combat truck driving school there, 1970

thank you for the video. I was born at Fort Ord in 1969. My parents lived on Walker Street which I guess is now considered in the town of Marina. Is the hospital still standing?

We were stationed there from '91-'93, among some of the last to leave. We lived off of Coe Ave. in the on-post trailer park. They had just built new, VERY nice officer family housing on the far end of post. I couldn't believe they were closing it after spending all that money.

This is sad. I was born on Fort Ord. My childhood home looks post-apocalyptic. The playground i used to play at looks like something from Pripyat. Thanks Bill Clinton for shutting down and wasting hundreds of brand new buildings and prime-coastal real estate.

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Walley Drive kids! We rode our bikes everywhere! Happiest memories of my life are from Ft.Ord. I remember riding my bike to the library where my sister worked and there was an earthquake. Didn't even realize it I just kept riding! LoL! I wish I could find some of the kids I played with Tisha Rice, Raquel DaSilva and Sherrie(don't remember her last name)

Thanks you actually on the end drove by C4-2 Barracks, one that I went thru Basis and AIT there in 1972. Great memories after growing up in S. Cali, and hitting this place with the buzz of military life while at war, most of us were 20 something kids... ! I never understood why they closed it.?

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We didn't realize it at the time, but part of what made us special was where we lived and worked and to see it decaying like this is extremely sad.

Love this place. Dad was stationed here and so many others I know. Bike on the trails now. Glad it's a national monument now. Central coast lifer!

I was there a few months ago and there is nothing to tell the history of the base. NOTHING not even a sign showing what was there