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[DCBryan1]

Good. I'd like to see the American dollar "KAPUT". The rest of our "allies" should take a long, hard look at turning us down in our hour of need again.

[Dubya]

Good post.

[AntiGuv]

I believe the proper tone is: buh bye!

[rageaholic]

Excellent. Relocate them all to Iran and North Korea.

[Dog]

Bye-Bye!

[Prov3456]

As a former German teacher who studied a year in Freiburg, I say "Halleluyah!"

Since they didn't want to help us protect them from terrorist attacks and since they don't appreciate all that we have done for them in the past 50+ years, we should take our (unwanted by them) troops and the money they/we spend there and go somewhere that the people do want and appreciate us.

Auf Wiedersehen!

[xzins]

I'll bet that they also keep the training areas at Hohenfels/Grafenwoehr. Although they have fewer restrictions at training areas in Poland and Czech, you just never throw away functioning training areas. All of them are useful.

This depends on how they garrison the fighting V Corp's 2 divisions, the 1st ID and the 1st AD. Perhaps they'll send them back to the US to reunite with their roundout brigades (Ft Riley watch out!)

If they do this then the plan might be for forward deployed cohort brigades to go to stragic garrisoning locations, fall in on prepositioned equipment, and take up whatever the local mission is. 6 months later, they would leave and be replaced by other brigades.

[A_perfect_lady]

HASTA LA VISTA.... BAY-BEE!! Now I wish their entire economy would collapse, and they'd be so desperate they'd invade France, and the two countries would DESTROY ONE ANOTHER!!!!!

(Ahem) No, of course I don't wish anything at all like that. I hope they do just fine.

HA!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Schadenfruade alert. LOL! Piss on the socialist krauts.

[caltrop]

With no mission and maintained at enormous cost, our ground forces should have been out of there long ago. The proper place for our ground troops now in Germany is the US. Leave AF and naval bases in Europe, bring 99% of our GIs - and their dependents and the hospitals and schools needed to support them - home.

[Beck_isright]

Why are we keeping any bases in the Weimar Republic?

[Tailback]

I wish we'd pull our troops out of the former Yugoslavian states and Macedonia. The US military is over-deployed and retention and morale will soon show the results of this.

[ExSoldier]

I guess it would also put the whammie on the REFORGER exercise? Man I hope so! I was there for that a couple of times, but the real eye opener for me was the first time in 1981 as a manuever damage control officer. Makes you wonder who really won the 2nd World War. For example, let's say a chopper, coming in for a landing in some clearing, swoops low over some farmer's corn field...and knocks over a row of corn with rotor wash. Farmer files a claim and not only does the US Army buy the entire crop...it does so at premium prices and will also pay for future crops at that field also at premium prices for the next five years or so! I swear, farmers located in prime REFORGER action areas do not harvest their crops on time, deliberately. God forbid any US vehicle should drop any POL products on land...then because of environmental damages...we pay tons more! We support entire economies this way. It is not right.

[RichInOC]

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