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My recollections of Wuecshheim A.S. Part 1

January 20, 2008

It doesn’t seem like that long ago that I became a GLCM “Ranger”.  I landed at Rhein-Main AB on Oct 3rd 1985 at about 8 am in the morning and absolutely no one showed up to meet me….great.  I caught a ride with someone else’s sponsor that did her job and actually showed up to meet her troop.  After arriving at Hahn AB I was dropped off at dorm 326 and got to meet MSgt Carey Knopf (for those of you that remember that name, I’m sorry).  Anyway after getting settled in I went to work for the first time on Delta flight.  I believe the Flight Chief was MSgt Okeefe who later drank his way through a DUI to make SMSgt (anyone remember that fiasco?).   The bus picked us all up at the dorm and we drove out to across Hahn’s active taxiway to our armory…which didn’t have any weapons yet, so we sat on post for 8 hrs without a gun guarding nothing…great again.  For those of you that don’t remember, at first we were at the IGAMA (Interim GLCM Alert Maintenance Area), which was an old Quick Reaction Area... [More]
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My First Comm Relay

August 8, 2007

I remember the first Comm Relay I went on... 3 of us went up to this hill and dug in; the first night we heard a ruckus, bottles clanging and some cursing and laughing in English; Rob Huffman and Marty Jensen stumbled into camp with a case of Romer Pills, we had to ensure all of the contraband was eliminated; extreme headache in the morning. That was a great welcome to GLCM. Hey has anyone heard from A-Bomb, Bean Flip, Zak Attack lately? don_korea@hotmail.com Also can't figure out how to get added to the Reunion list.

Donald Brockman


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Freezing in a winter deployment

February 21, 2007

I remember one time being deployed during the winter months.  Digging was slow since the ground was frozen, but the worst part of it was the cold.  Right behind our foxhole was a tent that was never used and I thought it was the warm-up tent that we had brought with us.  Inside were some chairs and a propane heater with an open face burner on it.  I would burn my knees and hands, then turn around and burn my back.  I went there off-and-on for 4days before I realized that this wasn't the warm-up tent at all, just the command tent.  I finally found the warm-up tent and did my best to get warm.  I tried adding a little kerosene to the coal stove and accidentally started someone's towel on fire.  Fire shot out of the stove pipe and it lit up the camp for a second.  Oops.  I never could get warm enough to stop the shaking.

Scott Aubuchon


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