I can see there are a lot of stripes Sarge.

Sergeant E5, patch with the bullet was 197th Infantry Brigade, Ft Benning/Moore (1972) supporting Non Commissioned Officer/Officer Candidate Schools.
Second patch is 2nd Infantry Division, HHC 3rd Brigade on the DMZ (1970-71) in support of the UN. If you would be interested in the DMZ experience, check it out:
https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/PHOTOS-BACK-TO-THE-1960S/DEMILITERIZED-ZONE-CIRCA-1970

Loved the sign: OFFICERS CLUB AND OUTDOOR LATRINE.

A very isolated post on the DMZ but fascinating and important work.
What was the DOGE switch?

Pictures of the barbed wire and the bridge to hell were something to behold.

I am an USAF kid and we loved the airmen with one or two stripes.
Once they got three stripes we ran the other way when we saw them.

one or two stripes are precursors to one of two paths in the military, one then goes into either a specialty, a technician, with a different patch structure, the other is just more stripes, which roughly equates to management/leadership non-commissioned officer ranks, so yeah more stripes equals more manager attitude.

The Dodge switch was a 250 line manual switchboard I was in charge of. In 1970 cessation of hostilities had only occurred 17 years earlier so it was barely more than combat conditions, we were paid hostile fire pay same as VN, all dirt roads, no dial telephones, etc. The switchboard was replaced by a dial office just as I came back to the states and the roads got paved just before all the Army moved south and turned the DMZ over to the Koreans. I was a draftee (2 year stint) that joined for an additional year to ensure I got to use my previous telephone experience as opposed to combat arms.

We were stationed overseas on small USAF bases in Southeast Asia during the Viet Nam War.
Our fathers were flying back and forth to Viet Nam all the time.

The one and two stripe airman ran the rinky dink pool, library and TV station.
TV was a few hours a day and they played old children's shows.
And during a typhoon when the shit hit the fan the airmen kept the station
running 24 hours with our favorite shows.

They were always kind to us. Once they got three stripes they were
different beings.

The interesting thing is that we were mostly officer's kids. But we knew not
to upset the NCO's because as our fathers would lecture us, the NCOs keep
the damn airplanes in the air. And they make sure you have food to eat
in the commissary, etc. They keep the whole thing running.

I used to think that our Dads had the easiest jobs. They were just flying airplanes
getting shot at in Viet Nam. The NCOs were keeping the whole damn Air Force
running. We knew the top brass just sat in the Officer's club knocking back
Jim Beam. Ha.

Yes the same in the 60's. Conditions in small remote bases looked like WWII movie
conditions in terms of infrastructure. Your conditions looked even worse than MASH TV show. I loved the quonset hut pictures, that is what our schools looked like.

How much danger were you in? Did the NK threaten you?
What was the switchboard for? Who were you communicating to?
Was this the front line of possible invasion by the NK so you had to be
able to let everyone know the conditions at all time?

If so you were in danger, but you probably know that.

expect one a day till Halloween!

Tim: “Too late. There he is.”
Arthur: “Where ?”
Tim: “There !” (pointing at the rabbit)
Arthur: “What, behind the rabbit ?”
Tim: “It is the rabbit.”

I never saw that but now........

Well captured

Sorry I don't see it.......

spookiness is in the eye of the beholder, only spooky because I said so. What do you see?

I took this on a foggy morning during a period where I kept an orange or yellow filter on my camera. A short lived period because I kinda ruined some fantastic shots by locking in a single color, which at the time could not be changed. This is an orange filter.

Well captured.