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Fort Chaffee
Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas
Information on the following photographs provided by
John T. Gerlosky
CWO W3 United States Army Retired, February 2010. Thanks John!
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Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center
Arkansas Army National Guard
This is a photograph of a wall to
the left of the Military Police (MP) main gate entrance to Fort
Chaffee. Please note the shadow in the lower right hand corner of
the MP gate.
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This photograph is a side view of
the MP gate. To the left of the door, you will see the side view of
the monument to Major General Adna R. Chaffee as shown in photograph
3.
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Fort Chaffee
Activated 11 September 1941
Named Camp Chaffee in memory of Major General Adna R. Chaffee
First Chief of the Armored Forces
1884 - 1941
Given permanent designation as Fort Chaffee 21 March 1956 by the Hon.
Wilber M. Rucker, Secretary of the Army.
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This photograph shows the MP main
gate. Please note the gate's shadow which appears in photograph 1.
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This photograph is a typical two
story building used to billet basic training troops with one level
buildings in the background used for mess halls, supplies and
company, battalion and regimental administrative headquarters.
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This photograph shows an end view
of the two story building shown on photograph 4. Please note the
wooden ladder for troops on the second level to escape in the event
of a fire. Each of us, during basic training, served as barracks
orderly. In this capacity, we also stoked the coal fires for heat
during the night and the standing order was to alert the sleeping
troops in the event of a fire.
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This photograph shows the entrance to an old abandoned cemetery. In
an orientation guide, before beginning basic training, I remember
seeing this cemetery. However, I cannot remember any details from
this orientation.
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This photograph shows the main
auditorium building at Fort Chaffee as I recall. Here, we began our
orientation and later watched many training films.
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In this photograph, you are looking
at the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the 1st Training Division of
which I was a member of Charlie Company. As individuals or marching
to training sites, our Training Cadre asked us "Who are you?". We
always shouted back "Charlie 3-2-1".
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In this photograph, I am guessing
that this is what is left of the buildings in photograph 8.
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In this photograph, I think you are
looking down the street between two rows of troop barracks which is
probably associated with photograph 8 but looking down the street
that you see in the lower right hand site of the photograph.
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