"Allways Ready"

What Unit (s) did you serve in the 2nd ACR?

Eagle Troop, 2/2 ACR

Where were you stationed?

Bamberg & Hof Germany.
Later, Fort Hood Tx. with the 1/2 Cav, 2nd Armor Div. at HHT driving a jeep for a Capt. and later a Sgt. Major were I received an achievement medal designing and painting a “Blackhawk” Squadron history room.

What MOS or Job Description Did you Have?

Primary, 19-D (jack-of all trades)
M-577 Communications Track,
Capt. Horton's Jeep driver & 3rd platoon scout.
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What was your rank/title?

Sp-4

What years Were You Assigned to the 2nd Cavalry?

Sept. 1980- April 1882

Tell us a little about your cav days and some of your buddies!

It was hard work. In places like Hof, Graf, Honftls., Scout-out, Capstone, Re-forger and all the other tid-bit field exercises. And to think I volunteered to do stuff like help the tankers qualify in their new M60-A3 as a loader, help the mortar-men qualify for Horse artillery as I prepared the rounds for the team. During my 6 months as a jeep driver, keeping up with Capt. Horton has he would charge ahead 4am till….. as he would volunteer Eagle troop for everything under the sun to keep us on our toes and combat ready.
Too much guard duty at the ammo dump and way too much beer during the little time we had off.
Looking back now, I wouldn't change a thing or the experience I had with friends and enemies. (No way would I have said that then) Most to lose a friend, a tank driver, Sp-4 Salsbury during one of those cold and arduous war games we played.

Tell us a little about you now.

I started in Austin Tx. after processing out of Fort Hood as a manual drafter in 1984 with the education moneys I saved up in the service. Later worked my way out of the field as a surveyor and trained myself in AutoCad and now work for a Civil Engineering firm here in Michigan preparing and designing plans for site layout and utilities using Suv/AutoCad, supporting the surveyors using coordinates/GPS for staking and construction layout. Been doing this particular work for about 16 yrs now.

name a few buddies you served with that you would like to find you!

Nicknames and or spelling is my best;
Tommy McCullen, Gephart, Evenick, Gurtis, Big Red, Woody Austin, Danny Carr.
More to come, have to shake the cob-webs.