Obama declares Fort Ord a national monument

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13. Fantastic news, but I'm still glad they closed it

Fort Ord had barracks where every troop had his or her own room and own latrine before any other base did, and they had a marina where soldiers could moor their sailboats. So, of course, the first fucking thing every recruiter except mine did was to pull out a picture of Fort Ord and tell you how wonderful base life was in the Army. (Mine told you how fucked-up the Army could be. He told you about the rock painting, the bad food, running five miles a day in driving rain, shit details and the possibility of getting killed in a training accident. And then he went to the latrine for ten minutes. If he came back and you were still there, then he told you the good stuff. And they made him US Army Recruiter of the Year two years in a row!)