I know I've mentioned alot about AIT already and might repeat a few things, but I guess when you reach my age, that's to be expected. We still had to stand in the chow line at Parade Rest, but we had more time to eat. I don't know if every meal was enough time to take as much time as we wanted, but it was much more leisure eating than Basic. In general, the base is very linear with two main avenues forming like the legs of a triangle. The one leg was the shopping/recreational area like PX, Commissary, Fast Food, Bowling, Clothing Sales, etc. The other leg included Barton Field which was in my mind the main feature. Along one side of the field, the 'back' side were most of the units. Ours was on the far end close to the wood line. The other side of Barton field was the Base Command HQ and all the signal corps for that matter and alot of the trianing 'Halls'. Signal Tower is the icon of Ft. Gordon. I think SGM Mercado (one of my heroes in the Army) was a prominent figure there. The units ao's are rectangular 3 or 4 stories with halls that are along the length of the building. The halls have similar rooms on either side of the hall. I think my room was on the second floor. I had a wall locker and a bottom bunk and shared the room with 5 or 7 other trainees. One feature that stands out it an overhang below the window. Outside that always seemed like a patio.
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