Reply #15: Thanks INSCOMer for the welcome [View All]

[Bavorskoami]

I am a long time and devoted lurker and use the info and links I find here for backing up my discussions on other sites and at work.
No, never got to Bad Aibling or Wobeck. My Field Station was Herzo Base, but I spent almost all my time out on the Czech border at Det K (Hoherbogen). It was absolutely a great location, no barracks, no mess hall, living in a Gasthaus, receiving partial per diem for three years, a young hip 2nd looie for a CO, a local economy that was not overrun with us Ami's and local people who treated us with warmth and friendship. Here's the village's monument to that freindship.

(We had a reunion there two years ago and they put us as the second unit in the parade that opened the village's beerfest - right behind the Bürgermeister and his council)

They still have warm feelings for us as individuals. Those I talked with during the reunion were already opposed to current American foreign policy. Some don't want to talk politics with "their" Americans because they are afraid of offending us or causing us the embarrassment of being reminded what an idiot we Americans have for a President and how much damage the USA is causing in many places.

I did visit the field station in Augsburg - Gablingen with the big circular antenna array - and later they automated Hoherbogen and ran everything out of Gablingen but that was after my time. I was sent to Berlin for a few weeks in 70 or 71 when the Warsaw Pact was having a big exercise in East Germany and they needed a Czech 98G on Teufelsberg.