Vilseck ready for troops

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Like kids who can't wait for Christmas, folks at Vilseck have put up the welcome home signs early in anticipation of the return of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment from Iraq.


Vilseck ready for troops
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, October 4, 2008

VILSECK, Germany — Like kids who can’t wait for Christmas, families here have put up the decorations in anticipation the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment’s return.

Stryker soldiers have been in Iraq since August 2007 and are expected home in November. But this week, on-post streets in Vilseck are lined with U.S. flags and yellow ribbons. Fences near the main gate are plastered with signs welcoming home individual soldiers or sub-units within the regiment. One features the silhouette of a soldier mowing a lawn from a wife looking forward to some help with the yardwork.

Off-post businesses are also looking forward to the soldiers’ homecoming.

Simone Bauernfeind, who works at a coffee shop in Vilseck’s main square, said she sees Americans every day and will welcome the extra business that returning troops will bring.

Rita Leitl, who owns a butcher shop in town, said many of her customers are Stryker wives. But when asked about the return of their husbands, she said: "Trouble."


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=57882