Military Museums on Fort Jackson

I left Toby at 7:30 a.m. to go to do laundry. There is a Laundromat about 4 miles down the road. When I was almost done, John called and said someone left and he moved to their site. It has water, 30 amp electric and no sewer, and it will be a test to see if we can go 5 days without sewer hook-up. As long as we shower in the public bathroom it should work.
After we made the bed and put the laundry away, we drove onto the base to go to the Fort Jackson Museum and the U.S. Army Chaplain Museum. Fort Jackson was established before World War I and is the largest basic training post today. One historic piece of trivia we learned is that the first U.S. Army shoulder sleeve insignia tradition started at Fort Jackson. “The 81st Division nicknamed themselves the Wildcats from Wildcat Creek which flows along the training area. Their unusual and unauthorized patch came to the attention of General Pershing. On October 19, 1918 he approved the insignia and the espirit de corps it fostered.”
Fort Jackson is also a training center for Army chaplains and has a very interesting museum about the history of the military chaplaincy. The U.S. Army chaplaincy began in 1775 during the Revolutionary War.
We went to the commissary and got some groceries and then went for my haircut. This is my fourth haircut on the road, and armed with pictures of the one I got in Arcadia before we left last December, I’ve had good luck in Phoenix, Sarasota, St. Mary’s and here in Columbia. John sat in the car and browsed the web with his laptop. We don’t have reception at the campsite.