ish I was back in Washington State

Gee, I actually enjoyed Sill... but I was a student at FAOBC, not permanently stationed there.

Every now and then my mouth waters for a Meersburger.

hermannr said:

If Ft Bliss is the behind of the Army, Ft Swill is the armpit. Been to both.

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No, no....The behind of the Army is Hohenfels. Look at the map sheets...the earth puckers there..

(It's one of those areas where cartographers needed to pucker things because the earth is round and maps are square).

oneeyeross said:

No, no....The behind of the Army is Hohenfels. Look at the map sheets...the earth puckers there..

(It's one of those areas where cartographers needed to pucker things because the earth is round and maps are square).

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Sometime in the late 1980s, I was riding with a M1 tank platoon that was in a wedge formation, across open ground at Hohenfels. Of course, there was mud and water everywhere, which was a permanent condition there (while you simultaneously choked on dust, of course!).

All of a sudden a tank just wasn't there any more. The platoon stopped, we looked back, and there's nothing but an antenna poking up out of the water. The tank had driven squarely into a flooded basement, and came to an "abrupt stop", as they say.

The crew got out just fine. The tank took a couple days' worth of work.

KBCraig said:

Sometime in the late 1980s, I was riding with a M1 tank platoon that was in a wedge formation, across open ground at Hohenfels. Of course, there was mud and water everywhere, which was a permanent condition there (while you simultaneously choked on dust, of course!).

All of a sudden a tank just wasn't there any more. The platoon stopped, we looked back, and there's nothing but an antenna poking up out of the water. The tank had driven squarely into a flooded basement, and came to an "abrupt stop", as they say.

The crew got out just fine. The tank took a couple days' worth of work.

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I was in Germany in the mid 60's. We referred to Grafenwoehr as the place they'd insert the tube if the Earth needed an enema.

All the NCO's would say "you can tell you are in Grafenwoehr when you're in mud to your chest with dust blowing in your face".

While there we had an M-151 (known by some as a MUTT) go into a mud-hole. In seconds all that showed was the last 3' of the radio antenna which was fully extended. No basement of demolished house, just plain mud-hole. It took the recovery specialist 2 hours to get a cable on it and the rest of the day in the shower to get the mud off.

amzbrady said:

SNIP...The camera thing is really the best idea...

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Yep, stay away from the malicious paybacks, or the tables will turn on you. Remember you stated you would like to get on their volunteer force. Get your video or picture evidence and make the police report. Although I remember as a kid silent wristrockets and BB guns…