Getting orders to Germany in 1982 was not what we wanted, but like all dutiful Army families, we did as ordered. We settled in a very small dorf (village) on the Main River in the area called Franken, a district of the State of Bavaria. Schwarzenau was a farming area with one of the crops being …
Archives for October 2017
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished – 1970
I have learned over the years that connections with West Point classmates have become increasingly important – in good times and bad. Classmate and fellow Field Artilleryman Dan Horne and I shared a flight to Vietnam … and then back again 1 year later. We met in the Atlanta Airport in early March …
Finally a Combat Engineer Platoon – 1970 Part 3 of 3
The work on the hill was basically manual labor. I had a M426 bulldozer for a while, but the demand for engineer stuff was great and the Battalion Commander LTC Rodolph had a rule that you only asked for equipment when you could use it constantly. I used it to clear the hole, dig other trenches, and …