U.S. Won't Abandon Germany, Commander Says

Guardian Unlimited ^ | August 19, 2004 | DAVID McHUGH

[dts32041]

I thought know one would catch the uncle bernie reference.

[PsyOp]

When I was there (81-83), Wuerzburg was home of the 3d ID (mech). I was actually holed up on a little Army airfield about 20km south in Giebelstadt. Wuerzburg is beautiful little city and was where the 3d ID HQ was along with some of the combat force. The rest of the division was garisoned in smaller facilities outside of the city.

[Jonah Hex]

After going back and looking at the study, the MOG issue was tied into having enough TALCE personnel and infrastructure (normal and hot parking spots, k-loaders, fuel facilities, lighting, security, etc.) to handle transhipping a brigade set's worth of equipment from strategic C-5s and C-17s to theater C-17s and C-130s.

The study pointed out the fallacy of pumping megabucks of tax-payer's money into upgrading mega-APODs like McChord and Charleston to improve deployment times while ignoring the enroute infrastructure constraints. It's like hooking up a 10 gal/minute pipe to a 5 gal/min pipe and expecting to put out 10 gallons of water every minute minute.

(The political downside was that it meant putting dollars into overseas projects instead of congresscritters' local districts. As a result, the money went into improving airfields here in the U.S. as pork barrel projects.)

[Cannoneer No. 4]

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Marne Magic Land. Fort Stewart just ain't the same.

[TADSLOS]

Man, that photo brings back memories.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Were you in Stuttgart 20 years ago, too?

[TADSLOS]

No, I just remember his photo when he was the CSA.