... 'got a ticket to ride'

Photo By Robert Timmons | Pvt. Oscar Troost, a Soldier in Training with 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, waits impatiently for his time to purchase tickets to take him home for Victory Block Leave Nov. 29 at the Joe E. Mann Center. Victory Block Leave, otherwise known as exodus, is a two-week span over the holidays where basic training shuts down so Soldiers and drill sergeants can take time to be with their Families. (U.S. Army photo by Robert Timmons/IMCOM, Released) (Photo Credit: Mr. Robert Timmons (IMCOM))  

FORT JACKSON, SC, UNITED STATES

12.01.2016

Story by Robert Timmons 

Fort Jackson Public Affairs Office

In little over two weeks Soldiers in Training from across Fort Jackson will leave the installation en masse to head home for the holidays in a tradition called, exodus or Victory Block Leave. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 64th Infantry Regiment were at the Joe E. Mann Center on post purchasing the bus, plane and train tickets to take them home.

• Date Taken: 12.01.2016
• Date Posted: 12.01.2016 13:34
• Story ID: 216130
• Location: FORT JACKSON, SC, US