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To: skepsel

I was there 71/73 at the time of the baeder/meinhoff gang shenanigans. There was over 20 members of the gang and all over Germany their pics were posted everywhere. As they were arrested or terminated a new flyer would come out with a red 0 across their face. Being that military personnel were being targeted, we were encourage not to wear our uniforms off base. I remember the Officers club in Frankfort being bombed by that gang.


52 posted on 06/10/2017 1:34:46 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

They were still active when I got to Germany.

I think they were calling themselves the Red Army Faction by then.

They killed a newly arrived young private for his ID card to gain access to a US facility to plant bombs and tried to kill SACEUR, Gen. Frederick Kroesen Jr., in an RPG attack on his convoy.

The General was traveling in a column of identical armored Mercedes limos when they fired on him, they missed his car entirely and struck the rear end of another car.

We had similar briefings about being careful; who you talked to, what you said, where you went and with who.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Kroesen


53 posted on 06/10/2017 6:25:27 PM PDT by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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