Talk:Camp Currahee

This name could possibly be a nod or a homage to Starship Troopers By Robert Heinlein, one of the training camps for the characters is 'Camp Curry'

That's possible, but not likely. There are a lot of homages that could have been paid in the book. -ED 02:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

i think it's a homage to Band Of Brothers, because that was where the 101st Airborne Battalion trained during World War II. pretty cool.

I'd suggest the nod to starship troopers is far more likely, given it's been added to the suggested reading list of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and is the only sci-fi book on the required reading list of the service academies (West Point, Annapolis, etc). Band of brothers is good I do not argue that for a moment, but we can't know if its comparable until 2052 or so.

Construction Date

The Camp may have started construction in 2531, but the date given in bsangel's Tweet appears to be a typo. Kurt woke up on the Point of No Return and was recruited by Ackerson on December 14th, 2531, while Alpha Company arrived on-site to begin training on December 27th, 2532. I believe bsangel meant to post 2532 instead of 2531 in her tweet, as the earlier year has no significance in canon on that date, while Kurt was working on the SPARTAN-IIIs' training regimen for the preceding 6 months. The date as it appears in the page infobox also reads at first glance like it was built in a day (sure, the UNSC can put together some prefabs in a hurry, but that seems a bit hasty); it might be best to have the Constructed field read "2531-2532", given Parangosky only approved Ackerson's SPARTAN-III proposal in October of '31, and wikipedia uses year ranges on military installation infoboxes. Yours to consider, ASniper (talk) 22:28, December 31, 2023 (EST)