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  JOE DESKEVICH January 8, 2024 12:37

  It only has you down once for sign up. I will put the mobile input issue in my punch list to fix. People use their phones more than laptops so I want to make sure that process works for us. - Joe
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  Dave Gettman October 8, 2012 9:13

  Paul,

  Reservations for the reunion will be for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, with check-out the morning of the 6th.

  Thank you for your continued support of the Regiment!
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  Bill Barry March 10, 2012 15:04

  Paul,

  Happy to see you on Dragoon Base!  It's been weeks since I've had a chance to look on here.  Retirement is too busy.  Will see you in April!

  Bill
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  Dave Gettman February 24, 2012 8:31

  Yes Paul, Bill Barry is also a member here but we don't hear from him very often.

  Morning, Top Miller! Maybe I'll get up to see you if I make it back next fall.
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  Jack A. Miller February 24, 2012 4:18

  Paul, Good to see up online with a great group of Old/New Cav Troopers. Sorry to hear about  your wife Ursula. I assume Bill Barry got you connected with Dragoon Base. Looking forward to seeing you Bill's get together dinner. Bill & I stay connected regularly on our private e-mail address. Jack "Better known on here Top Miller"
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  Jesse Kelley February 23, 2012 12:41

  Hey Paul,

  I have been going thru my pix, trying to remember you.

  This picture was in my 'do not remember file', figure I can't go wrong, if it is not you, maybe you remember who it is.

  Here is another, back turned, but going by the #5 on the .45 pistol handle, same officer.

  Also I am still looking for Lt Robert Sommers, do you remember him???

  Thanks for joining,

  Toujours Pret
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  Dave Gettman February 23, 2012 10:29

  Paul,

  Welcome to Dragoon Base. You shouldn't have any problem finding someone who served in the Regiment same time as you. There are some F Troop guys here from your time you might know. Jesse Kelley was F Troop from 1972-75 and knows of others here at Dragoon Base who were F Troop then also.

  And like yourself, many of our members here still reside in Germany. My former 1st Sgt, Jack Miller, still lives in the Bayreuth area as do others. Just a matter of tracking them down.

  My dad was 1st Battalion motor officer in Bindlach 1953-55 before they became squadrons. Spent my 1st birthday in Bayreuth, where we lived across the street from the Officer's Club on Parsifalstrasse just across the park from the Wagner Festspielhaus, and my 21st birthday at Camp Pitman in Weiden just two days after we blew up Sheridan C-15 while on maneuvers in July 1974. Maybe you heard about it.

  So you're a mechanic who likes guns? You would have gotten along with my dad. He was recon through WW II, and battalion to post level motor sergeant/officer and instructor/inspector through Korea and Vietnam. Incredible mechanic and also a national champion marksman, winning the National Guard Rifle Championships held at Ft Lewis in 1935 and being the high National Guard shooter at the Camp Perry National Rifle Matches in 1936. He was awarded the Distinguished Marksman's Badge in 1935 and earned enough "legs" (13 earned - 3 needed) to have received the award three times. He also had two legs towards the Distinguished Pistol Badge. He quit competing after 1948 when he started wearing glasses, but got into one more shoot in Pegnitz 1954 with the Polizei and won the competition. I still have the plaque on the wall.

  Anyway, hope we can stir up some of those old memories we here all cherish so much.

  Always Ready, sir!
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  Jesse Kelley February 23, 2012 10:10

  Toujours Pret Sir

  Welcome Paul.
  The Dragoonbase.com, has
  plenty of updated features
  (HTML and format friendly), lots of sub-groups,
  (Officers Club,F-Trp,Amberg,Medics,and the
  always busy Oldtimers club).
  Also links for “2nd Cavalry Assn.”
  News and History Centers.

  Robb Russell has posted some tips for
  navigating the site(ie,photos,links,ect)
  in the Forum.

  Please feel free to stop by and read the
  latest “Tacoma Dave's ‘Triva Quiz’”,
  you can learn some 2nd Cav history,
  and you could even, win a kool prize.

  If you need any help, you may contact
  Robb Russell, or any of the 5 admins listed
  at the top of the page, or just yell out,
  another member may be able to help you.

  And our only wish is to,
  ‘Keep it clean’.
  Use your real name and picture,
  (pix from back in the day,work best
  for searching for Brothers),
  but any picture will do.

  And that you please tell all your friends
  about, where to find the DragoonBase.

  Thanks again for joining Dragoon Base,
  and for your Service and Dedication,
  to Our Great Country.

  Jesse Kelley
  F Troop 2/2ACR
  72-75