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Comment by Dave Gettman on December 7, 2009 at 9:57am

Les,
I got busted in that room, and it wasn't even mine. There must have been a dozen of us in there partying, and I got singled out. A friend who was getting kicked out of the Army anyway took the fall for me though and ate the Art. 15. When I get out of the Army 6 months later, I find him living with my parents!!!

Jason,
Amazing enough one of my best friends back then, an E-3 when I left and a pretty big screw-up also, ended up retiring 1/Sgt. He's listed in our Fiddler's Green now.

Comment by Les Cherry on December 6, 2009 at 8:43pm

I'm glad they can't!!! lol! Everything from my room mate getting busted for some hash and another one lighting his fart on fire and burning a hole in his underware! Soemthings are best unknown! lol!

Comment by Dave Gettman on December 5, 2009 at 8:33pm

Must have been the same room Les, because it was the largest room on the 2nd floor. Oh, if those walls could talk!!!

Comment by Les Cherry on December 5, 2009 at 2:34pm

The "Crazy Family Room" was the room that all the mechanics lived in. Most people had 2 or 3 to a room but as I recall we had 8 at one time in our room. It was about the biggest room in the building. We were just to the right of the stairs on the second floor. All of the rooms doors were painted red and white like the CAV flag but ours was pink and white and had a sticker of an old granny with a stop sign in her hand. (It was that way when I got there - the mechanics were crazy and heavy partiers hence the name "crazy family".)

Comment by Jason Hastings on December 5, 2009 at 1:29pm

Gee Dave, if you had stayed in you probably would have made CSM

Comment by Dave Gettman on December 5, 2009 at 12:17pm

I was there until almost the end of February, so we probably brushed elbows going through the gate.

I wasn't staying in the barracks at the time, but had a small room attached to our little PX there with one other guy who I can't remember. He was a real screw up (worse than me!) and was getting kicked out I think. I was supposed to leave in January but had some AWOL time to make up from before I was in the Cav (long story). Man, the Army gets every day out of you.

I was on permanent CQ at night and cleaned the kerosene stoves during the day since I wasn't on the payroll for that month. Had to piss off our new colonel real bad during an inspection before I finally got to go home. I was out of there the next day. The inspection would have been about the 20th of February. I was out of the Army and home on the 24th.

Comment by Douglas E. Nash on December 5, 2009 at 10:47am

Dave,
You're right - the Troop was out at the border. So we spent about two weeks at Bindlach before they shipped us out to Camp Gates, where we spent a month or so before rotating back. I must have just missed you then!
Cheers,
Doug

Comment by Dave Gettman on December 5, 2009 at 10:38am

Hey Doug,
Sorry the rest of the troop wasn't there to "great" you properly. We were on the border at Camp Pitman. I left C Troop from there in February 1975, just after you arrived. Hell, you might have been my replacement!

Comment by Douglas E. Nash on December 5, 2009 at 10:23am

I had to sleep in the day room the first night that several of us new recruits arrived back in January 1975. The CQ had to go downtown with the Duty Officer concerning a murder that took place in Bayreuth over some drug deal that went wrong in a bar & where one of our troopers was involved. The CQ forgot to leave the keys with the runner so we weren't able to be assigned to a room. So we slept on the couches in the day room - they were the usual dingy "VOLAR" type of furniture, some puke-brown color or something. The TV didn't work, but it didn't matter anyway since we found out later that we couldn't get AFN on it. I remember PFC "Cocaine" Ocaine being the runner, which was a bit ironic, since he was one of the biggest drug dealers in the Troop. What a hell of an initiation to Germany! It got a hell of a lot better after that!

Comment by mike flewelling on December 4, 2009 at 10:01pm

when I got there in late 82 I was in the last room on left second floor em club side (loved that room just a short crawl from club) had a roomate named Blodgett.

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