From 1988-1990, I was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in Wuerzburg, Federal Republic of Germany. How many of you served in Germany during the Cold War, and in particular, during the breakup of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union? If so, where?
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8th ID in Mannheim from 84-88.
Was in the 10th MTN when the wall came down.
I was stationed in Mrs. Livingston’s kindergarden…
I was in Nurnberg from 84-89.
USAF stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base providing extended air traffic control to the Army artillery batteries from 1983 to 1986.
Warner Barracks in Bamberg. 1st Armored Division
A little late to the party, Schweinfurt 90-92 – 3rd ID 3/4 Cav
I was in A-TROOP. Rotated out in 92.
Did REFORGER with the MA ARNG in 1989 in the Augsburg area. They turned us loose at THE Okroberfest in Munich. IIRC we bought a tour bus.
2-60 IN, 9th ID or 199th SIB at FT Lewis.
I was in Babenhausen during the cold war. 1970-1971. 3rd ID was up the road from us in Aschaffenburg. 5th Corps, 2nd Battalion, 5th FA.
Bitburg AB, 1973-1976
Coburg reaction force that night, 2nd ACR.
I was with the 1st AD, at Ansbach AAF in Katterbach (I CO., 1st Avn Regt) from 1987 to 1989. when the wall came down, I was at Fort Lewis (D CO. 1/9 Avn Regt).
2d Battalion, 4th Infantry, Nelson Kaserne, Neu Ulm, 1981-1983
i was in Wurzberg the same time
6th MP Co, 59th Ord Bridge in Muenster Bei Dieburg from 1990-1992
Bamberg 2/2ACR 87-92
2nd / 60th ADA Ramstine Air Base, Germany
HHC 1st BDE, 3AD…Kirchgoens (The Rock) – Ayers Kaserne.
But on New Year’s of 1990….I was on the Wall. Best New Year’s party ever.
8th ID Baumholder 74/75 1/83 FA
Damn, bunch of youngsters on here?!
D Co 547th Eng Bn Darmstadt 90-91
2/36 IN as it transitioned to 3/5 CAV in Kirchgoens – The Rock. Went to Berlin and was able to rent a hammer to chip off my own piece of the Wall. Great times!
Darmstadt PMO.
C Co. 3/36 Inf. 3AD Kirchgoens (The Rock) – Ayers Kaserne 86′ – 87′
Kitzingen – 1-15 3rd ID
I remember the S2 brief…we could not go to the wall and remove a piece – we had to have a German national retrieve a piece for us….crazy party / drunk / then we were like holly crap….its Dan Rather!
1st Infantry Division (Fwd) ’84-’87. 4th Cav, Div Hq, 2-37 Armor.
Two Tours, 3rd AD, C. Co 1st/503rd, Hanau AAF 80-82 and 3rd Inf. 1/223rd Fliegerhorst AKA Giebelstadt AAF 83-87.
Budingen – A TRP 4/7 CAV 3AD 1989-1991
i´m an german Army StaffSergant and i live near Wildflecken and Fulda, 50 miles in the nort of Würzburg.
Greatings to all of you
I was a dependent in Nuremberg (Furth) 72-77. Also did Refrorger 1984.
The Wall/1K Zone was still there when I was stationed at Wurzburg in ’72-’73
Bamberg, 1st AD. 87-89. Came home a couple of days before the wall fell. Exciting year to be in Germany!
I was in Augsburg 87-91 B Battery 1/18FA.
LOL at Garlstedt… We built it and literally turned it over to the Bundeswehr shortly after its completion. What a waste.
I was a dependent Zweibrücken AB from 80-82.
If the Bundeswehr still use it, it was money well spent. Lots of kaserne are used for housing gastarbeit. Poorly.
I rotated out before the fall of the wall but a good friend of mine was on Gibbs in Frankfurt in late ’89, and was already manifested for one of those weird train rides to “west” Berlin planning to do some of the goofy stuff the MPs and S2s briefed us not to do. He was told 50/50 that the train would be cancelled due to all the turbulence in the East German government but because he had “banked” all his briefings, was already on leave and his paperwork was tight (the three ways they were trying to wave off joes), he was allowed to board.
His 150 lb. graffiti-covered chunk of the wall is prominently featured in his living room, and his story about getting it back to Frankfurt is as good as any episode of “Drunk History.”
It’s their logistics school now… Lucius D. Clay Kaserne. Not to be confused with Wiesbaden AAF. LOL
I drove by it every day for five years between 2009 and 2014. It’s a shame it wasn’t ours anymore – that drive down to Wiesbaden to periodically hit the Commissary was a pain.
Oh Hell Yea, i was on my second tour to Germany. HHC 1-16 Infantry, Iron Rangers. First ID Forward. If you are going to be a red one, might as well be a BIG RED ONE. Later to be reassigned to 3/7 Cav in Schweinfurt.
My first tour was in 2/2 ACR.
Ahhhhh, Good Times.
Bad Toelz.
Garlstedt, HHC 1/41 INF, 2AD FWD, 87-90.
3AD starting in ’90
Lee Barracks, Mainz-Gonsenheim, 3-8 IN, 1st BDE, 8 ID, 89-92.
2d Battalion, 4th Infantry, Nelson Kaserne, Neu Ulm 87-90
Amberg Iron Troop 3/2 ACR
I was there “On the Wall”. CSC 6- 502 INF 4.2″ Mortar Platoon Berlin Brigade 1988-1990.
Camp King 84 to 90
1/4 Infantry, 3d Bde, 3ID in Aschaffenburg, 1978-1980. A mech infantry unit with OD fatigues, M113A1 APCs, M-16A1s, and Dragons.
Not during the fall of the wall, but during the time the USSR was moving troops out of Czeckoslovakia for their “invasion” of Afghanistan. They were moving their units on the border, who had older equipment, to Afghanistan and replacing them with troops with the current/newer equipment. We had major alerts practically every month because we thought it was the prelude to their coming across the border.
Interesting times to be wearing OD green.
Baumholder, FRG….1st time, 1983-1984 and second time 1985-1989