TIM RICHARDSON -> ALL wrote:
 TR> On 05-14-08, ROSS SAUER said to BOB KLAHN:

 >>> My last few months were at Ft. y-choo-ka Ariz. I was


 RS>> 50's or early 60's, mentioned "Ft. Y-Choo-ka."


 RS>> They called it "Ft Hoochie-Coochie" though. 


 TR> Ft. Huachuca is a major Army base in Arizona. They have a large U.S. Army
 TR> intelligence center there, as well as school.


 TR> At one time a large part of the desert around Ft. Huachuca was an aircraft
 TR> and artillery gunnery range.


 TR> Back in the mid or late `70's, a guy went to visit his father and
 TR> brother who
 TR> were doing time in Florence State Prison in Arizona, staged an escape from
 TR> the open-ground visiting area that included the father, the brother, and
 TR> another prisoner.


 TR> They hijacked a pickup with a camper on it and made their way to the
 TR> gunnery
 TR> ranges of Ft. Huachuca.


 TR> That area is nothing but open desert, the hottest area in the state. It
 TR> gets
 TR> upward of 130 degrees in the shade down there.


 TR> They had no food or water, and slowly died of dehydration. One died of
 TR> one or
 TR> more bullet wounds recieved in the escape from the prison area.


 TR> A few years afterward....a bunch of guys got the idea of going out onto the
 TR> gunnery range and collecting up the cartridge and shell casings left over
 TR> from practice firing and air attacks.


 TR> While they were engaged in collecting brass....a military helicopter
 TR> `buzzed'
 TR> them. The driver of the pickup they were in panicked and drove off, leaving
 TR> the rest behind.


 TR> Instead of going back for them later, the driver assumed the military had
 TR> caught them and they were in custody.


 TR> They died on the desert.

Wow, this all happened at "Ft. Hoochie-Coochie" huh?

Ed

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