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Comment by Dave Gettman 1 day ago

I was there for that April Fool's Day!!!

Same quonset hut, John.

Hey Patrick, you might know this guy too.

Comment by Dave Gettman 1 day ago

Ah, Mr. Walker. What are we going to do with you? I see you have been busy again.

I have one suggestion. If you can mail me the videos, I can upload them to my photobucket account and then link to them from there. The links will be good as long as I'm alive and paying the account. I might even be able to sneak them on the 2nd Cavalry Association server, so they will be permanent.

Dave Gettman
8432 McKinley Ave
Tacoma, WA 98445

Comment by John M Walker on November 20, 2009 at 3:24am

Guys, I have a bunch of videos of the Rock similar to the short clips I shot while visiting Camp Gates about a year ago. I want to upload them but they are simply too large. Do any of you know a way to adjust the files so I can decrease their size? Is anybody ambitious enough to want to tackle this? I could send a 2 GB memory stick with all of them.

I also have a ninth clip of Camp Gates in which I went inside the Border Ops Center rubble but it's also too large. Any advice would be appreciated.

Ciao from the Bernese Alps
Johnny 'Delta on the Warpath' W

Comment by Mike Kultgen on November 19, 2009 at 8:58pm

Vearl, I was in the UP's for about my last 3 month's on the Rock. I was the B Troop relief cdr. A, B, C, troop and D company each had a relief consisting of a sgt and 4 guards. We manned the main gate and for a while gaurded the ammo dump as well. We worked a rotating 8 hour shift for nine days and then had 3 days off. It kind of sucked seeing your own troop leaving for the border or Graf and not being along with them. On a lighter note, on April fool's day '74, we would salute officer's that we knew with our left hand as they passed through the gate on their way to work just to see if they caught on. And yes we did live in the quonset hut behind sqdn hqs. Mike

Comment by john kerley on November 19, 2009 at 6:20pm

There used to be a quonset hut behind hqs that the master mgr of personnel lived in along with a buddy of mine. Any chance this is the same one? John Kerley 66-69 The rock

Comment by Patrick cavdoc Biddy on November 19, 2009 at 6:18pm

Hey, I know that guy in the photo!

Comment by Dave Gettman on November 19, 2009 at 3:33pm

Great history, Jack!! Thanks!!

VEARL,
You'll be happy to know that the quonset hut is still there on the Rock.

Comment by Jerry W. Roessler on November 19, 2009 at 1:48am

I was in C troop from Jan. 89 to Nov 90, made some good friends drove the Capt. for awhile and the 1stSgt. Me and him didn't get along to well. I also drove the Sgt. Maj. for a short time.

Comment by Paul Gargis on November 18, 2009 at 10:29pm

In response to Vearl Hughes, I am in that photo of the UP's at the gate, taken around 1960, we started out in the brown boot Army at Ft. Meade 1957 and gryoed to Germany FEB 58, that 30 day deal must have come after we did our duty, by the way, Gus was our company tailor in B troop.The guy across the street at the laundry was Pete the Pirate, what a guy a lot of black market smokes went thru his shop!!

Comment by Jack Hamilton on November 18, 2009 at 12:32pm

Back in the 70's, I had about an hour conversation with the Fire Chief on the Rock, Herr Goltz. He had come to the Rock in 1933 as a fireman for the Luffwaffe at the base. The bulding across the street (run by Gus the tailor who was a DP) was during the Third Reich the whore house for the base. The Luffwaffe didn't want their men going to "unsupervised" places and ran a house of ill repute. Herr Goltz said that the PX buiilding at the top of the hill was the base HQ. The Squadron Headquarters building was the base hospital. Ruined area between headquarters and the motorpool row was destroyed family housing. The parade ground to the right of Dragoon Drive (down the middle of post) was the air field itself. In the 70's between the barracks buildings and messhall you could find sections of 6-8 small rail tracks. That was the rails for the doors of a hanger that took up the whole area. Wing and engine repair shops were in the bunkers under Support Platoon building. We had a function in Bad Berneck one weekend at the Bad Berneck Hotel. The proprietor was proud of his picture of him in his ME-109 that flew out of the Rock to intercept out bombers hitting Regensberg and Schweinfurt.

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