Been over 40 years so memory is kind faint but describing where you were stationed, was this at Kirchgoins “the rock”?
My first tour with with 3d Bde, 3d Armored Div at Ray Barracks, Friedberg (where Elvis Presley served). Second tour with with 3-12 Cav at Budingen and 3AD DivArty HQ at Hutier Kaserne in Hanau. Kirchgoens is now a massive trucking transfer facility. Only the post chapel remains as a memorial.
Go to www.usarmyeurope.com and look up either Kirchgoens or 1st Bde, 3AD on it. I there there are some shots of what it looks night now. That is a great site for all of the posts, kasernes, and units that use to be in Germany.
Yes, Ayers Kaserne or “the Rock”, 1st Bde, 3rd Armored Div.
When I was there (’80-’82) it was 5 bns, 3 armored and 2 mech infantry.
Kirch Gons was the town at the base of the hill, though there were several similarly named towns around the post; Pohl Gons, Eber Gons, Oberkleen, Neiderkleen, Huttenberg, I’m probably mangling the spelling.
I wish I had got out into the country side more.
I wasn’t a barracks rat, friends and I went to all the little wine fests, harvest fests and carnivals we could get to, visited local ruined castles and such, had a few German friends but wish I had done seen/more.
I took two separate month long leaves in Europe but only got as far as the UK, France, Holland and Belgium, back packing, camping and youth hostels.
You can’t throw a biscuit with out hitting something historic over there, our local training area had a feature running through it, the ruins of the Roman border wall.
Butzbach where the 1st Bde arty was at the time had a plaque on a the city wall with a little park next to it that a German speaking fellow E5 translated for me one night on courtesy patrol while picking up drunks before the MPs or Polizei did, lol.
Anyways the plaque had something on it about a Hessian regiment that garrisoned Butzbach in the past and had served in America as mercenaries for the Brits during our War of Independence.