Dan Linn (left), destined for C/3/506, 101st Airborne and Sammy Lee (center) destined for D/3/506, during AIT, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 2nd AIT Brigade, Fort Ord, California, September 1969. The C/3/2 barracks were less than a half mile from the Pacific Ocean. Fort Ord was just north of Monterey, California and about 90 miles south of San Francisco. Fort Ord was closed in 1994 as part of the Department of Defense Base Closing activities.