Fort Huachuca Army Brat
The world of Tumbleweed Forts, the book
Category: Military Life
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By Frank Warner I’ve been looking for old photographs of Colonel Johnston School in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Now a fellow Army brat has sent me a picture his father took from the sky. David Penman of Grand Forks, North Dakota, says his father, Staff Sgt. Keith Penman, snapped this photograph from an airplane that flew…
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Photo: Mr. Archie Brown (at right in white) and his well-dressed Fort Huachuca Accommodation School Band More than 50 years ago, a Navy veteran from Kansas taught hundreds of soldiers’ children in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, how to play musical instruments. His students still remember following Archie H. Brown through the streets of Tombstone and Sierra…
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Photo: Army brats normally wear civilian clothes, but here in Fort Huachuca of 1963 is my brother George, for the fun of it, wearing a small Army uniform that his three older brothers wore before him. An Army brat is the child of a soldier. Usually, the term is applied to those children who have…
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What is “the voice” in the book Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat? Elizabeth Wrozek, curator of the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, asked that great question in the June 15th discussion and book-signing at the museum. My simple answer: The boy is narrating the story as it happens. He knows only what…
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I heard about them. My father hunted them. But the javelinas, wild pigs of the Huachucas, never crossed my path when I lived in Fort Huachuca in the 1960s. So I was surprised June 16th this year when, in a visit to the fort, I saw this javelina bothering a food caterer’s van during a…
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Excavators hunting “lost gold” in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, believed their 1963 search was aided by electronic tools from a downed flying saucer. This is in my book “Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat,” but here are some of the details, and they’re not in any Fort Huachuca history book – not yet anyway.…
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This is a place to discuss the book, Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat, and any subject related to the story. Tumbleweed Forts, by Frank Warner, is about a boy's life in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in the early 1960s. It’s about youngsters making friends and exploring, soldiers experimenting with drones, and all sorts of…
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