This recently discovered cache of photos were taken during Christine’s AIT at Fort Dix, NJ from January to March 1975. From there, she was set to Bangkok, Thailand for the fall of Saigon and the Mayaguez Incident.

By Christine Lorraine Morgan, Dec. 30, 2025

During AIT at Fort Dix, NJ we weren’t allowed to take photos during the training process.

However, after hours was a different matter. If you think I’m obnoxious taking pictures now, imagine how my poor fellow trainees must have felt as I snapped photos of them before the word “selfie” was invented, and before the world was its own Big Brother.

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Christine Lorraine Morgan poses for her closeup during Bivouac in February 1975 at Fort Dix, NJ.

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Christine’s fellow trainees did not take kindly to her pretending to be the OIC as they swabbed the barracks hallway floor.

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Building pyramids wasn’t just for Egyptians.

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Christine Lorraine Morgan stands next to the bunk beds given to trainees at Fort Dix, NJ in January 1975.

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Here, Christine attempts to shoot pool with a cue without a tip, while holding a Kool cigarette and holding the cue against her pink finger at Fort Dix’s rec room in her barracks.

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The reason Christine included this image of her fellow trainee Vicki, is for anyone who was ever stationed at Fort Dix to see the wall mural, wondering if it looked familiar to anyone who spent time in a barracks rec room there.