I did the exact same drive you did. I spent 2 years there as a HM at the Naval hospital
I walked over to the old baracks which were fairly new when I was there. Now
they are a rehab facility for drug addicts. It was unreal to me to see a place
that brought such good times and such memories to many a young salior just
disappear as if it never was. It truly brought a tear to my eye when I went to a
park that it is the center of the new "Suburbia" called Blue Jackets Park. I realized that I was standing at the old e-club and that even made it worse. But oh well
life goes on. I really wish that that was still there only so I could take my kids and show them where there dad served. But,....that will never be. Carry on Shipmate!