[GreyFriar]

Those were the days! Now just a memory. Grafenwoehr without the sound of tank and artillery going off, had to believe.

[2CAVTrooper]

“Those were the days! Now just a memory. Grafenwoehr without the sound of tank and artillery going off, had to believe.”

Graf was OK, I preferred going there compared to Hohenfels.

My last time at Graf, the entire 1AD road marched from Graf to Hohenfels.

The first convoy out of the gate onto 299 ended up having some LN pancake himself into the back of the M-88 trail vehicle. I want to say that it was 2/68 Armor. After that, every convoy had a heavy MP, German MP, and Politzi escort, and every vehicle had at least on VS-17 panel draped over the back.

[muawiyah]

Graf was one of the more boring places, but at Wild-flicken (Bad K for Infantry ~ a pun) we went up the hill on a nice late July day to get an ice cream cone ~ and by the time we got to the top it had snowed 6 inches!

On the way out some of the guys tried to abscond with an old piece of WWI equipment but they got caught at the railhead ~ so we had to give it back.

Most of the time our unit would have the troops ride the rails with the tracks on flat cars (tofc) and a few of us would ride down the autobahn, et al, mostly et al, to whatever training area they wanted us.

Once we returned to Kitzingen (Harvey Barracks) in our tracks ~ it was well below freezing ~ I was TC ~ WOW! Even a hawk jacket has trouble with that. The guys inside were roasting though.

Earlier that year we were up on the border with a radar watching a Russian/GDR guard post ~ major minefield in that area, and the Russians came down a road on the otherside just across from us IN A TANK COLUMN.

So, you might ask, did the guy at Tianamen Square wet himself up against that tank? ~ from experience I'd say he never noticed if he did. Tanks are impressive. Tanks that can be or could be aimed at you and fired are very impressive ~ a thing you'll never forget. When there's nothing between you and a bunch of them and what immediately seemed to be a very inadequate mine field, it's time to deedee out.

[Abundy]

I was there (Graf) in January...arty and other heavy weapons going off all day, every day for the two weeks I was there.

The Strykers are staying, but the tanks are not. :(

[Capt_Hank]

Brought back good and bad, memories. 4th Armored Div. 144th Signal, 1966-67 Cooke Barracks. The coldest I’ve ever been in my life, was Feb. 14th 1967, on a field exercise.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. I am surprised that the tanks were sent to South Carolina instead of Egypt.