Lariatf150!
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Lariatf150!
Well I'll be Danged!
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Originally posted by lariatf150
Here's some pictures http://www.pbase.com/kygarden/army
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Lariat, it certainly looks like we've walked in the same shoe-steps at some point in our lives. Let me see if I can tell you something about your duty station.
Location: Wurzburg (Before 1992) / Kitzigen, Harvey or Larson (After 1992) Barracks.
Unit: Bravo Co. 123rd SIG BN/Extension Plt. (400-series)
MOS: 31L10
Division: 3rd ID: Rock of the Marne!
Mascot: Rocky, the dog.
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My first duty station in 1988 was B. Co., 123rd SIG BN, 3rd PLT.
Back then our unit was shoehorned into Hindenberg Kaserne in Wurzburg, West Germany. I was a 31L10, but knew that job, though important, was more for somebody else than me. I cross-trained and (unofficially) became a 36M (To be inside a shelter, with a heater, rather than outside, in 0-degree weather, @$$ deep in snow, tracing wire to find a fault that was really- you guessed it, in the switch!).
I worked as a 31L (Cable dog) during set-up, etc; but instead of being a Gopher (Go-for, this, Go-for that) for the next 2, 3, 4 weeks I actually had a job in the switch. No KP and/or guard duty for me!
I reenlisted in Feb 1991 and became a 31F (MSE), and went back to Ft. Gordon for AIT (Another glorious 16-weeks of Drill Sgt. BS, but this time I was an E-4~ prior service have it easy in AIT, right! wrong, they still tried to kill us if you were below teh rank of Corporal (E-4), Spec. (E-4) was fair game).
I left my beloved Germany Jan. 1990, just as the REFORGER '90 exercise was kicking off. (Hardly anyone left to take me to the airport so I could come home)
A few moths later, our unit transitioned from our old systems into MSE (But I missed it, sitting in my new assignment in the 69th SIG Co., Ft. Huachuca, AZ)
I spent a lot of time in the field over there. A LOT. Missed both Oktoberfest, 88 & 89, sitting in Hohenfelds! I was returning from the field on Autobahn 5 when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; West Germany was flooded with those itty-bitty East German cars, packed to the roof with family & stuff; it was a beautiful and incredible sight to see all those people liberated!.
~I wouldn't change a thing about it! I loved my time over there; second only to my one year tour in Korea, in the 122nd SIG BN!~ If you're serious about soldiering, it doesn't get much better than Germany (During the cold-war) and Korea (Pick a day, any day!)
That's a cool pic you had of the monument in Belguim. I never went there, but I did march as a member of the 3rd ID color guard in 1988 in Epinal France & saw this..
http://www.abmc.gov/ep.htm
Learn more about American Cemetaries, and our fallen heros.
All: http://www.abmc.gov/abmc2.htm
Epinal, France: http://www.abmc.gov/ep.htm
France should be FOREVER gratefuls to the allies. Those little white dots you see are thousands of crosses marking thousands of fallen soldiers. To go there, and see that- puts it all into perspective. My hat is forever off to all WWII Vets, Vietnam Vets, and all veterans!
quote:
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Originally posted by lariatf150
Here's some pictures http://www.pbase.com/kygarden/army
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Lariat, it certainly looks like we've walked in the same shoe-steps at some point in our lives. Let me see if I can tell you something about your duty station.
Location: Wurzburg (Before 1992) / Kitzigen, Harvey or Larson (After 1992) Barracks.
Unit: Bravo Co. 123rd SIG BN/Extension Plt. (400-series)
MOS: 31L10
Division: 3rd ID: Rock of the Marne!
Mascot: Rocky, the dog.
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My first duty station in 1988 was B. Co., 123rd SIG BN, 3rd PLT.
Back then our unit was shoehorned into Hindenberg Kaserne in Wurzburg, West Germany. I was a 31L10, but knew that job, though important, was more for somebody else than me. I cross-trained and (unofficially) became a 36M (To be inside a shelter, with a heater, rather than outside, in 0-degree weather, @$$ deep in snow, tracing wire to find a fault that was really- you guessed it, in the switch!).
I worked as a 31L (Cable dog) during set-up, etc; but instead of being a Gopher (Go-for, this, Go-for that) for the next 2, 3, 4 weeks I actually had a job in the switch. No KP and/or guard duty for me!
I reenlisted in Feb 1991 and became a 31F (MSE), and went back to Ft. Gordon for AIT (Another glorious 16-weeks of Drill Sgt. BS, but this time I was an E-4~ prior service have it easy in AIT, right! wrong, they still tried to kill us if you were below teh rank of Corporal (E-4), Spec. (E-4) was fair game).
I left my beloved Germany Jan. 1990, just as the REFORGER '90 exercise was kicking off. (Hardly anyone left to take me to the airport so I could come home)
A few moths later, our unit transitioned from our old systems into MSE (But I missed it, sitting in my new assignment in the 69th SIG Co., Ft. Huachuca, AZ)
I spent a lot of time in the field over there. A LOT. Missed both Oktoberfest, 88 & 89, sitting in Hohenfelds! I was returning from the field on Autobahn 5 when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; West Germany was flooded with those itty-bitty East German cars, packed to the roof with family & stuff; it was a beautiful and incredible sight to see all those people liberated!.
~I wouldn't change a thing about it! I loved my time over there; second only to my one year tour in Korea, in the 122nd SIG BN!~ If you're serious about soldiering, it doesn't get much better than Germany (During the cold-war) and Korea (Pick a day, any day!)
That's a cool pic you had of the monument in Belguim. I never went there, but I did march as a member of the 3rd ID color guard in 1988 in Epinal France & saw this..
http://www.abmc.gov/ep.htm
Learn more about American Cemetaries, and our fallen heros.
All: http://www.abmc.gov/abmc2.htm
Epinal, France: http://www.abmc.gov/ep.htm
France should be FOREVER gratefuls to the allies. Those little white dots you see are thousands of crosses marking thousands of fallen soldiers. To go there, and see that- puts it all into perspective. My hat is forever off to all WWII Vets, Vietnam Vets, and all veterans!
