Hey all you old Cavalry soldiers. I knew so many of you I can’t remember alll of your names. I was in 1st Plt A Trp Scouts(M-114′s to M551 Sheradins) from 1972 – 1976 went from E3 to AJE4 back to E3 and then to E6 and got married that tour. Some off the guys I remember are Sgt Hallenbek,Tennessee, Douglass,, Rapps, the Mace brothers(Mortars), The Cowboys(Lawrence, Coffey and others), Scanlon, Ward, Joe Short, Brian McGinnis, Swenney, SSG Stoney Burke(killed by a drunk German driver in 79′), SSG Thomas(inf), SSG James(inf), SSG Bryant, SFC RW Smith(Smity), Sgt Dierdan, SFC Lee(3rd Plt Sgt) 1SG Hunter, Cpt MC Miegs(later General). I PCS’d, and came back from 1978 – 1985. Started out in HQ A Trp and as the Training NCO, and Troop Master Gunner. Then I moved to HHT in 1980 as the Squdron Master Gunner(we had swapped out our Sheridan’s for M60A1′s) with LTC Copes, Maj Sopko(XO), Maj Lewis(S3) SFC Mincey, SFC Ramcharitar(NBC NCO), MSG Yeager, MSG Freddie Gurley. Later Sqdn CO’s were LTC Olmstead and LTC Montgomery C Meigs(That’s right, he also came back). Then I was moved into the Squadron Operations Sergeant slot(got promoted) and remained the Squadron Master Gunner until I finally went stateside for good in 1985. I spent almost 11 and a half years at O’Brein Barracks. Which I do believe is the record spent with the Cav in O’Brein Barracks. Some of my fellow Master Gunners were: SFC “Smity” Smith(SQDN MG), SSG Dave Rose B Trp, SSG Hallenbeck C Trp, SFC Casey Jones C Trp-SQDN MG), SFC Larry White C Trp, SSG Dan Coyne A Trp, SSG Ron Howard B Trp. It had its ups and downs but I really loved it there and all the comraderie that only us “Cav” guys can understand. Still married to Gitta, “Schwabacheri”, 38 years. Three kids and 5 grandkids so far. We go back every two years usually, O’brein has really changed. Check out Schwabach.De, then check out Obrein Park. I’m retired from everything, living in New Jersey, outside of Ft Dix.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:21:25 +0000
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