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. 


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


They died on the desert.


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