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In 1942 it took only four months to construct the army camp, Camp Atterbury. During WWII there were more than 100 units and 275,000 men who received training here.

Someone passed a website on to me, Call of Duty Endowment (CODE), and I really found it interesting. I do love to make lists of facts so here are the two sites that inspired me to dig up facts. http://www.callofdutyendowment.org/newsroom/blog-post/ and http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJDkVq0_ZSbDE06klAajk9.... They were so interesting. So here are my facts I compiled:

I just wanted to say how much I love this site. It has been such a neat experience to watch it grow and to see the photos. Being an Army vet I find it interesting to look into the lives of serves members in other branches.

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Criss-crossing America to uncover some of the trend lines in war-fighting technology, Kaj Larsen of Vanguard investigates the issue of remote control warfare.