[rollei_list] Re: Comic art was Re: OT: Miscellany
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:54:50 -0400
At 03:38 PM 9/10/2007, Michael Eric Berube wrote:
>I think that you mean that it closed in 1993. I don't know when they had
>shifted training shooters from Ft. Meade to Lowry, but my AIT was there
>NOV87-MAY86 and 'Lowry Technical Training Center' was still a very
>active in training instrumentation calibration folks as well as the
>aerial & satellite recon photo interpretation folks, illustrators,
>video/mopic and still photographers etc... They had the best damn 'mess
>halls' that I ever ate at and a package store just outside of every gate.
I do not recall precisely when Lowry closed
though I suspect that five minutes on GOOGLE
would reveal this. I just know that DOD had
decided around 1973 to ramp it down with eventual
closure the goal: this was a huge issue in
Colorado Senate and House elections for a decade
or more. A cousin worked at Lowry and lost her
job there in 1983 though the Feds shifted her to
a job in downtown Denver to protect her retirement.
I had not realized that photographers were ever
trained at Fort Meade, and I find that most
questionable: Meade was an Armor post until 1923
but has been a command post since then. It
certainly has not been a training post since at
least 1947 to my fairly certain knowledge, though
some training was conducted there during World War II.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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