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From: Bob Morecook
Date: October 17, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
Hi Rick,
We left Fort Ben in Winter 1961. The post was full of excitement because Dinfos was scheduled to arrive. The building housing Dinfos was less than two blocks from our house. Our Dinfos Barracks was between the two.
Bob
From: Forest Brandt
Date: October 17, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
Steve,
The two guys who helped me put the BRO show together on AFVN, Bill Johanson and Wayne Yeager were IU grads in communications. Both played in a band that had a long gig in a bar. Wonder if you knew them in college.
Forrest
From: Rick Fredericksen
Date: October 17, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
[To Bob Morecook]
You were there before Dinfos and so, before all of the AFVN broadcasters who passed thru Ft Ben. Neat distinction.
Rick Fredericksen
From: Bob Morecook
Date: October 17, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
Hi Rick,
I lived at Fort Ben for 8 years as a kid. My dad was a finance corps MSG. We used to kid that his 201 file was lost. We spent two years in the old Wherry Housing then moved to a brick fourplex across from post HQ. They were the happiest years of my young life. I thought I died and went to heaven when the army sent me to Dinfos for AIT.
Bob M
From: Rick Fredericksen
Date: October 17, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ahhh, Fort Ben. Bob, you were there as a kid?? I was last there just a few years ago. My brother lives in Indy. I still have my text books and diploma from 1968. I've seen Payton Manning and the Colts play several times and look forward to his historic return with Denver this Sunday night on TV. Alas, I will be cheering for the Broncs.
Rick Fredericksen
From: Steve Wiltsie
Date: October 16, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
I worked for Channel 4 in Bloomington and Indy running camera during my time at Indiana University. The Bloomington studio was located on the same lot as the Sarkes Tarizian factory where they made the TV cameras and, probably, the TV vans that AFVN used. The first condenser microphone I saw was an experimental unit made by that plant’s engineering group. I was able to borrow it for use in a TV production at the college.
After returning to the US and getting out of the service, I worked for WIFE-FM in Indy in sales for a short time.
Anyway, small world.
Steve Wiltsie
From: Bob Morecook
Date: October 17, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
Good old WTTV.
I remember it well and watched The Little Rascals on it and other old shows. as a kid at Fort Ben Harrison.
Bob M
From: John Kafka
Date: October 15, 2013
Subject: RetroIndy: Fort Benjamin Harrison
I'm a little surprised that DINFOS was not mentioned at all in this article. Over the years, DINFOS personnel and graduates contributed or worked for a number of local newspapers and radio and television stations.
Fort Benjamin Harrison
October 2013
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