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I also went to LDAC/AC at JBLM. This was in 2011. Grading was definitely different but mostly TAC and peer-based. No passes. We stayed in WW2 barracks as well. They are now mostly torn down except for a couple of stragglers used by 8th BDE Cadet Command.When I went to Advanced Camp in 1986, I went to Fort Lewis. We were housed in WWII barracks. Back then, I believe they used three posts for Advanced Camp, and where you went was based on your school. It was a week longer than it is now, but IIRC, we got one, maybe two, 36-hour type passes along the way. The grading wasn't nearly as programmatic as it is now; it was very much based on what your TAC officer thought. There were graded events (i.e. PT, rifle, land nav), but I don't believe they had any direct bearing on end of camp evaluation like they do now.
On the whole, I think it's probably a better product now than it was then, but the food/MRE thing still has me shaking my head.
Fort Knox is sort of a ghost town now.