he pending sale of New Mexico’s storied —a cavalry post dating from the 19th century Indian wars—got us thinking. Whatever happened to other, staging point of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan, now home to the “other” USS Sea, Air & Space Museum; Alabama’s , one of the largest U.S. Army bases during World War II and postwar headquarters of the Women’s Army Corps and Military Police Corps, since converted into a master planned community; Massachusetts’ , among the Navy’s first shipbuilding facilities, now administered by the National Park Service and home to the 1797 frigate USS , the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat; Indiana’s , the largest reception center for inductees during World War II, which now encompasses residential neighborhoods, a golf course and a state park, as well as offices for the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars; and Pennsylvania’s (aka Camp Shenango), through which more than 1 million troops passed en route to Europe during World War II, since converted into an industrial-residential community. All of which prove there life after military service.
