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Post by icebergwallst on Jun 20, 2009 10:19:37 GMT -8
The Ausweg was that hole in the wall downtown, one way in and one way out.
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Post by Neil Hamill on Jul 22, 2009 11:58:04 GMT -8
Served in C 2/92 FA from 82-86, except for 5 months- worked in the S-3 shop for that 5 months.
Was FDO/XO and BC. As FDO- Joe Hall was the XO and Tom Torrence was the BC. COL Torrence retired a few months ago. 1SG Evans, Smoke Quandt and Gunnery SGT Young were top notch......FDC Chief Brandon was the man.....great FDC section Sacks etc....
XO was fun....Smoke Young was awesome...great section chiefs across the board....great soldiers. great guys in the motor pool.
As BC- 1SG Gibbs and Smoke Roberson ran a tight ship. Great XOs and FDOs- Jim Matties, Don Crandall to name a few.
Great times..great graf trips....a few decent Wildchicken trips- and a few Reforgers- to include a 1985 winter Reforger.
Married a german girl from Buseck...she is home right now helping her ailing father .
I thoroughly enjoyed serving in 2/92 and loved Giessen.
Peace out!
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Post by plaisance on Nov 1, 2009 22:51:50 GMT -8
don't know if you guys still check this site. I remember Goodwin, simeone, jones ( tool?) did you drive for Stewart? all that seems so long ago. probably because it was. my oldest daughter was born in the uni klinikum. she's a marine now stationed in TQ with 2nd MLG.
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Post by rockbottom on Nov 16, 2009 12:09:02 GMT -8
I was in C 2/92 FA from 1984-1988. I remember Chief of Smoke SFC Roberson and SFC Hughes. I was in Giessen in May of this year. Rivers have changed so much. I closed Giessen down in 07, I am now at Fort Lewis :-( if any one wants some pic, I can e-mail them.
donald.breisch@us.army.mil
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Post by Spence on Nov 19, 2009 11:01:36 GMT -8
d**n, Sweaty Betty. To this day, whenever I see a skanky stripper I call her Sweaty Betty. I was there 87-90. Remember the change from 2/92 to 4/7. Used to bar tend at the Woodland on weekends. Also was there recently and saw the changes and the automall. Crawled through the fence and checked it out. Peaked in the windows of the old A Battery first floor.
David Spencer Tigershark6@gmail.com
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Post by shaky945 on Nov 21, 2009 18:47:04 GMT -8
I was in Bravo Battery 2/92 - 4/7 from jan 88-90
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Post by plaisance on Dec 2, 2009 7:06:26 GMT -8
hey shaky, you guys had Ssgt Buffington over in Bravo huh? He PCS'd to Ft Polk and we were in the same unit when i got out in 91. you know i'd be retiring now if i'd stayed with it then... d**n!!!!
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Post by Vincent Simpson on Feb 9, 2011 23:54:24 GMT -8
hey i remember carter, he was a great friend of mine as well. I was in Charlie battery from 86 to 89 as the generator mechanic with the gap tooth smile. Would love to hear from some pals . Anyone remember Sfc Campbell .
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Post by Dean on Feb 15, 2011 6:56:28 GMT -8
Simpson, Campbell wasn't in the motor pool all day (you remember why) and made us work late every day to make up for it. Did you ever married that German girl from Marberg?
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Post by n0aaa on Feb 16, 2011 14:14:09 GMT -8
You/re all kids. I was a clerk-typist (trained FDC) in S-3 HQ Btry from Nov. 1962 to June 1963 (then got sent TDY to be a personnel clerk at the stockade in Frankfurt (that was GOOD duty! we were right behind the Hauptbahnhof in Frankfurt). Later at Arty HQ's in Babenhausen and Darmstadt (finally discharged in June 1965). Roommates were Charlie Fusilier, Ungerman, Duane Fricke, and Dean in S-2 (forget their other names). Alerts meant we packed up everything and headed up into the Spessart Mountains (God, I hated those). I drove a 3/4-ton truck with a trailer when that happened. Got really good at backing up in deep snow to a tree. Cross-country excursions to Nuremburg, where we live-fired once a year. I was a rotten soldier, but this kept me out of Vietnam! -Jan Clute
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Post by rodneyjones on May 11, 2011 12:08:23 GMT -8
I was in C battery 2/92 later 4/7 in the late 80's. Paul I misss you my friend. That was us on the roof on the tiles drinking nerve pils. Too many great memories. I was BC's driver most the time. Dean if thats you me and SFC roberson kept your silly ass from jumping out of a hotel room in Spain, ha.
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Post by Paul Goodwin on May 17, 2011 10:19:16 GMT -8
Great to hear from you Rodney- hope all is well. I remember that Spain trip- it was Sept. 1988 and about a 24 hour bus ride from Giessen to Spain. I got an email from Breisch not long ago- remember the trip to Amsterdam in his Toyota? How about driving in the 10 K zone? Lots of other memories to be sure. We did a lot of walking in Giessen- through the woods to the PX by Pendleton and downtown. I made it back to Giessen briefly in the Fall of 2001 and spent a good long time looking through the chain link fence that now surrounds our former buildings and the quad. All quiet in that place. The rest of Rivers is an automall. There was no feeling quite like that of an 8 inch unit rumbling through a small country German town. I remember sometimes driving the M577 and getting stuck behind a farmer hauling a load of manure. It was all good training in retrospect- a good thing to do when you're young and bullet proof. I'm glad I enlisted in the Army and wound up in Giessen and had the opportunity to serve with you and all the others. We had no idea that the Wall would be coming down so soon after we left. It was worthwhile. It was a great place to come of age.
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Post by SPC Paul Goodwin on Nov 27, 2012 13:18:49 GMT -8
Happy Thanksgiving, Rivers alumni. I spent 3 Thanksgivings at Rivers (C-2/92 and C-4/7). I remember they went to the extra effort of decking out the mess hall for Thanksgiving which was nice. Was at Rivers from 10/86-6/89. It was a good time to be a soldier in Europe. God bless us all.
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Post by Mike Simeone on Feb 3, 2013 21:17:00 GMT -8
Hey Paul hit me up if you get this msimeone68@gmail.com
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Post by Paul Goodwin on Jul 4, 2013 6:12:49 GMT -8
Greetings Rivers alumni and a happy 4th of July to all- hope everyone is well. Paul Goodwin reporting in from New Jersey. I was in basic training at Fort Sill on the 4th of July ('86) and it was hot. Good training. It didn't get quite as hot in Giessen- sometimes in the summer we would go to Swan Lake and the Shwimbad. Fond memories of C-2/92 and C-4/7 and Giessen Milcom in general. Enjoy the day and God bless-
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