Sky Pilot School
Part of the inner courtyard of Fort Tompkins, which is itself part of the Fort Wadsworth complex on Staten Island.
Fort Tompkins was built on the bluff overlooking the Battery Weed to protect the Battery Weed from any land-based attacks while the Battery Weed used its many cannons to thwart sea-based attacks on New York City. Nothing like that ever actually happened, but they would have been ready if it had.
(For 25 years I listened to the Vietnam-era song “Sky Pilot,” not knowing what the heck a sky pilot is. Answer: A military chaplain. That was the last thing the U.S. Army did with Fort Tompkins -- it trained its chaplains here.)
Sky Pilot School
Part of the inner courtyard of Fort Tompkins, which is itself part of the Fort Wadsworth complex on Staten Island.
Fort Tompkins was built on the bluff overlooking the Battery Weed to protect the Battery Weed from any land-based attacks while the Battery Weed used its many cannons to thwart sea-based attacks on New York City. Nothing like that ever actually happened, but they would have been ready if it had.
(For 25 years I listened to the Vietnam-era song “Sky Pilot,” not knowing what the heck a sky pilot is. Answer: A military chaplain. That was the last thing the U.S. Army did with Fort Tompkins -- it trained its chaplains here.)