General Discussion

In the early 1980s Fort Drum, NY, was used only as a training base. The reserve and National Guard units in the area would go there in summer, and in the winter active duty troops would do winter training. My unit in the 101st got picked to do winter training, so...first they issued us a massive amount of cold weather gear, then they gave us a class on how not to get third-degree frostbite, and then we flew to Griffiss Air Force Base 60 miles away from base to begin our winter adventure.

There was a base regulation that every unit had to serve liver at least once during the training cycle.

On liver night, NO ONE went to the mess hall. No one. Not even the colonel running the exercise ate there, and he ate every meal there. We went to the PX snack bar and bought the worst pizza ever made.