Posted on 04/20/2015 5:58:26 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How’s it going?
Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))
All is well here. I have a day off, and that’s a good thing. We’ve been really busy lately and I needed the break.
Hope you and Bo have gotten some Lake-time lately! :)
I was with the 101st MI in ‘81-’84; we did two rotations at the NTC. The one I missed out on was a roadtrip. We convoyed all of the wheeled vehicles in the battalion from Ft. Riley, KS to Ft. Irwin, CA via Ft. Huachuca, AZ; the BN overnighted at Army Reserve armories in Kansas and New Mexico.
While at Ft. Huachuca, we demonstrated the new Communications/Electronic Warfare/Intelligence (CEWI) Battalion concept to students at the Intelligence School. From what I heard, everyone had a great time; even the few inevitable breakdowns turned into adventures for the soldiers involved!
I was a pre-schooler at the time, but I remember bits and pieces of the trip from Merced to Biloxi; we had a canvas bag filled with water that we placed in front of the radiator on the car to keep it from overheating as we passed through that desert.
At least no one was killed.
Yup, she gets hot hot hot.
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