OMG!!! I am literally sitting here balling in tears!!! I used to live in Neu Ulm from 1986 to 1989 and went to the Ulm American School; home of the MARAUDERS!!! We lived in building 373 apt C-3! I was only in third through fifth grade, but BOY does this bring back memories of the BEST days of my life!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, FOR THIS POST!!!
Everybody comes to visit and see how things have changed. How come nobody looks me up? I still live here. Used to go to the high school from 89 to 91 9th to 11th grade. Would love to hear from people.
I ets's in 1980 HHB 2/ 33 F.A. Radar section, we had a very old Radar unit which was used in Vietnam, I know because my section chief was w/ big red one there and I've seen a few historic pic's of it .we had the old AN/ MPQ-4 Radar, I had to look it up on TH-cam because I forgot the nomenclature 😂 anyway that thing was so Old that it used Vacuum tubes like the old T V sets yep, (usaeur) big red one 1977-80 I miss the pretty Fräulein 💃👀 und german Bier 🍻🍾🍷Prost 🍻
Lived in Leipheim 75-78. Went to Neu-Ulm Junior High '77-78. We used to go to the Shoppette to buy our lunch and eat in the park across the street. When did the school become a High School?In my day, everyone went to High School in Augsburg. Played little league in Neu-Ulm for two years. This video explains why it was so hard to identfiy much of anything at Wiley Barracks on Goggle Maps: So much has changed! Thanks for letting my visit the area through your video!
Greetings from Neu-Ulm, I'm born here in 1985 and still living here. This video is amazing and it means a lot to me that you haven't forgotten your time in Germany. Let me say to you: we Germans miss you so much, even today !!!!
Awesome to see it's still there. Lived there for three years and left in '83. That building across the street from the hill at 8:34 is where I was. First floor, middle left.
Danke for this video. I lived there from 86-90 and went to UAHS. I went back about the same time you did and was blown away by the changes. Neu Ulm/Ulm will always have a special place in my heart.
wow, the last couple mins were very familiar. Lived there from 86 to 90. You almost drove by where I lived, it was like 2 buildings down from where you turned down the old upper O-grade housing. I remember that big hill with the sketchy slide on top of it by the old YMCA that you drove by. played coach pitch baseball behind that yellow apartment complex by the upper O-grade housing. So many memories.
I was an MP there from Feb 83 to Aug 84. Loved that town! Remember seeing our Mopeds in the Summer? Corny looking but sure beat a hot van with no AC. You may also remember the 4000 no-nukes protesters every Easter at Wiley gate. The bowling alley across from Wiley had the best Jaeger Schnitzel! I visited there in 92 and it was still a sad abandoned wreck full of immigrant squatters. Neu Ulm looked like a ghost town without the Army economy. I wonder when it turned around? Crazy now!
I remember all of those places. My pops was in the 4/5 Infantry in the army. I love ulm/ neu ulm. Im going back finally in a year after all these years. We were there from 83 to 86. We stayed in Ford housing
I was there in 1969 and don't recognize anything except the snow in this video :'( I went back there on vacation in 79 and the barracks was still there...
Wow, what a blast from the past and a peek into the future. I was there from 84-87. 1st, in HHB, 1/81 COMMO, then D Battery, 1/9, COMSEC CUSTODIAN. Great times were had there.
HHB 2/ 33 F.A. Radar section, I think "Roebocker" was battalion commander then 🤔 1st Sgt. our "TOP" was Capello, I don't remember everybody from those years 🪖🪂
I was posted there from '85 until '87 when the 4/5 rotated back to Kansas. Sad to see that part of mine and so many other soldiers history has changed. I loved that post, and the city...thanks for the video. Made an old soldiers day! Bravo Team,,HHB 4/5 F.A.
HHB 1/81, Ammo Platoon, '84 and '85. Visited in 2013 on vacation. Going to go back one more time in a few more years. Lovely town, fond memories. Thanks for posting this bro.
What an experience seeing the old Wiley. I was in C btry 1/81st there from '76-'78. I have many photos and memories, and a patch from the Ulm Rod and Gun Club in the old pow bunkers on post. If I were to go see it all today I would probably just be a teary eyed mess for a while, before I got down to the business of reconnecting with the past and a bier or zwei.
I grew up there, riding my bike to school, passing some of you guys (maybe not you personally, you know what I mean though) on your morning excercise. I remember someone jumping on the back of my bike, hitching a ride for a few meters. Must have been in '88 or '89. I also remember a classmate's mom worked "inside" and she took us to Burger King (was it? or McDonalds? Can't quite remember) after swimming lessons. Classmates name is Michael Snook. I also remember vividly the "open days" when we could go in for the fun-fair.
hey guys! cool to read this comments..i lived in the "elefantensiedlung" close to the Baracks when i was a child and i saw you soldiers every day..now i still live here and this video let me think about the old times:)
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I was in Service Battery 79-81 and seeing the snow reminded me of the two times I did battalion sergeant of the guard on Christmas Day, first time my name got white-out in and the next year I asked for the duty so a married man would be home with his family. It was actually a good duty to have since you wasn't going anywhere and never had any trouble with the troops because they were all burned out by time I took over the duty on Christmas morning. Good memories.
I was in C Battery 1st/81st from June 68 (pre-Wiley) until Jan. 71. I returned to visit the Ulm Christmas market in Dec 2007, and we had a hard time finding Wiley due to the new train tracks and train station and general expansion in New-Ulm. When we finally found it, the old buildings were all gone except for the church, EM club, and guard shack. This video looks like a lot of construction happened very shortly after my visit. My wife enjoyed Ulm better that most of our other destinations.
I spent 3 years there, 85 to 88, with last year being on post. We lived very close to the Food Land, in one of those reddish buildings. Fond memories of Neu-Ulm.
I was there too. I was a Pershing Missile Crewmember. I loved days of the protesters. We got to stay on base and hang out at the NCO Club all day playing slots and drinking.
Great video! I was there in HHB 2/33 FA from 79 - 81. The movie theater is at 4:15. The firing battery barracks are at 4:18 - 4:26, and at 4:31 the white building behind the trees was the mess hall.
dibble caine I was HHB 2/33 F.A. radar section, across from movie theater, Bowling alley close by Rod &Gun club not to far anybody remember SKI ? he was that old civilian who had a room on first foor hhb, across from medics He used to work on the Howitzers,he drove a VW beatle.. Golden Lions !
OMG !!! The memories !!! I was there '78-'81.. I remember when we picked the Marauders as mascot for high school. my dad was the club systems manager for Wiley and Nelson.
I was there during the time and remember the protesters by the back 40. I was in HQ Commo from 83-85. I returned in 2003 & 2006, then they had stated rebuilding the base. I ate at Club Wiley (old NCO Club).
I was in Swabish Gmund. Yea it's spelled wrong. I got there in 1988 and was there to the end. I was a mechanic and remember working day and night to get everything turned in. Some of my best memories of the military. 56th FA. That patch with the top tab.
was in Neu Ulm form 76-79. Had an incident with Ratt-Rigg in field. Carbon Minoxide poisioning. Trying to find who medic was in 2/33 FA. during incident. Or do anyone remember incident Walter Brooks was First Sargent. also Captain was Jannson No anything 252-558-2739 Fleming
I remember those kinds of incidents w/ carbon monoxide poisoning every now & then, I was HHB 3/33 F.A. 1977- 80 Radar section, my Radar equipment was so Old because it used Vacuum tubes 😅😂 a few times when arriving @ Grafenwöhr for reforger/ field problems FTX's field duty, we'd set up operations but couldn't operate because of a vacuum tube issue, our warrant officer had to go all around Graff & look for a certain vacuum tube, from all the other Radar sites there at the time so we would all just chill out and drink some brews 🍻🍷 fun times !
Update from my comment 2 years ago -- I took my daughter to Germany in May 2012 and once again drove through the former Nelson and Wiley. Last time was 1992 which looked like a ghost town but now thriving again. I was told by a German relative that Germany made out well on the Euro conversion which fueled a manufacturing expansion. Almost no traces left of the former Nelson & Wiley now with thriving industrial and residential additions (and no East German squatters like in 1992)
the reason why it looked like a ghost town was the unclear ownership status. Germany owned the place when the Us Army left and Neu-Ulm bought it in 93-94.
Here's the story from a different angle: We were schoolboys in 1990, when we first came into Wiley - there was a sale of old army stuff; I still have two not exactly matching rubberboots from then. Next time was 1992 after the place was given to the Bundesvermögensamt. That was the "ghost-town"-time. Nice tours around the place by night - sadly there soon was much damage done by some idiots. The first two objects that were put into use again apart from the houses in the Vorfeld were the Dietrich Theater as a cinema (I remember the first shows with about 10 people in the big hall) and the "bunker" as an unusual bar.
I remember, the streets and buildings in spite of the changes. I like the changes that have been instituted now that we are no longer there. The entire greater Neu Ulm community had been our playground. I have been back I stayed there for one week during my two vacation in Germany. It is funny how much the mind retains once you are back on the base.
I lived in neu ulm from jan 70 to july 1978 lived in bldg 376 C2 my dad was battalion mantinance 1/81st and my mom worked in the food stand in the motor pool me and my brother sold the stars and stripes paper in the mess halls ..
Derrick Huge I was in the advance party that rotated 2/5 into Wiley. You guys got our old barracks back at Ft Riley. I still remember the old cobblestones in the motor pool.
I was there from 1983 to 1986 B 2/4th Inf Bn, I don't recognize much from the video, I guess I was buzzed most of my off time lol, but good times in Germany.
I was in Svc. Btry. 1979-81 and it's hard to believe they would tear down those wonderful barracks on Wiley. OK, I was joking, they were a dump but some good memories like pulling Christmas day sergeant of the guard two years in a row.
I was the Service Battery Orderly Room Clerk from 1972-1974. I was a 15E and was originally assigned to Ammo Platoon, but because I had such great clerical skills, the Army made use of them in the Orderly Room. Major Carrier had just left when I arrived, Major Zebell took over from him and my final months we had Captain Larry E. Jarvis from Sac City, Iowa. He could be hard on you, but he was a kind man underneath. Both Zebell and Jarvis invited the Orderly Room guys over for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. Very memorable days for this once young man. Thanks again for the video update.
Major Jarvis was head of the missile school at Redstone Arsenal, AL I was attending when I was going through to be a 21L in 1977 and I stayed on as permanent party until June of 1979 and he was still there. I thought he was a real character and liked him but I didn't worked for him while stationed on Redstone but I saw him most every day. He would come though where I worked and always stopped by to say hello and to see what was going on and just shoot the breeze for a few minutes.
If I remember correctly, and I have a pretty good memory, Jarvis was an enlisted man that went OCS and originally was stationed in Service Battery as the Battalion Maintenance Head. He was the only Officer I served with who would regularly enter the Orderly Room with grease all over his pants and back as he would gladly get under trucks to help install MWO's on equipment. He could get in your face on occasion, as he did with me one time, but in the end he wrote me a fine letter of recommendation when I left the Service in 1974. I always appreciated that from Captain/Major Jarvis. And his wife was a very sweet woman. For Christmas one year, Jarvis had bought his son a "Rock-Em, Sock-Em" toy and he got right down on the floor with his son, in the presence of all of us, and boxed with his son and his new toy. I have nothing but fond memories of my service in Neu Ulm. I gained 15 pounds eating those good German meals at the Posthorn. The world was so different then.
I saw him in his khakis climb under a truck more than once at the school and the old timers said that's just the way he is. But what was funny one time I remember was the way he took of his hat and gently sat it down on top of some papers before he crawled under the deuce and a half and to do grease work like a regular soldier and you had to respect any man who would do that and I never felt he did it for show or to make points with the enlisted.
Absolutely, he was a blue collar Commander if there ever was one. I think he did it because he loved it and he knew that by doing it he endeared himself to his troops.
The old Housing (around the shopette) is today's Ghetto , all were converted into City Housing (section 8 in the USA) (highest Crime rate of the city) only the officers housing were converted to condos and some of them were bought by the Deutsche Post (german postal service) for their employees and yes the old school is still a school (middle school)
I was stationed at Wiley in 63 - 64 with a small USAF detachment . Watched the Army leave base the day JFK was killed . Thought the end was near . We were in the last building shown in the video .
Alpha battery 151 Pershing Wiley 82 -84 commo the it'll do on base , der holtzverm off base . der puftahaus the liberty club 🗽 all of it, yeah and slushy snow.
OMG!!! I am literally sitting here balling in tears!!! I used to live in Neu Ulm from 1986 to 1989 and went to the Ulm American School; home of the MARAUDERS!!! We lived in building 373 apt C-3! I was only in third through fifth grade, but BOY does this bring back memories of the BEST days of my life!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, FOR THIS POST!!!
Everybody comes to visit and see how things have changed. How come nobody looks me up? I still live here. Used to go to the high school from 89 to 91 9th to 11th grade. Would love to hear from people.
was there in 82-84...Hq 2/33. which got changed to Hq 4/5th...made a lot of friends there...went to the club called liberty!!..
Sp4 worked in radar... tpq36/37
I ets's in 1980 HHB 2/ 33 F.A. Radar section, we had a very old Radar unit which was used in Vietnam, I know because my section chief was w/ big red one there and I've seen a few historic pic's of it .we had the old AN/ MPQ-4 Radar, I had to look it up on TH-cam because I forgot the nomenclature 😂 anyway that thing was so Old that it used Vacuum tubes like the old T V sets yep, (usaeur) big red one 1977-80 I miss the pretty Fräulein 💃👀 und german Bier 🍻🍾🍷Prost 🍻
this kevin gradine i was there from 1980-1983 at wiley kaserne with 2/33F.A i rember all of thjs video
Lived in Leipheim 75-78. Went to Neu-Ulm Junior High '77-78. We used to go to the Shoppette to buy our lunch and eat in the park across the street. When did the school become a High School?In my day, everyone went to High School in Augsburg. Played little league in Neu-Ulm for two years. This video explains why it was so hard to identfiy much of anything at Wiley Barracks on Goggle Maps: So much has changed! Thanks for letting my visit the area through your video!
Greetings from Neu-Ulm, I'm born here in 1985 and still living here.
This video is amazing and it means a lot to me that you haven't forgotten your time in Germany.
Let me say to you: we Germans miss you so much, even today !!!!
Awesome to see it's still there. Lived there for three years and left in '83. That building across the street from the hill at 8:34 is where I was. First floor, middle left.
Danke for this video. I lived there from 86-90 and went to UAHS. I went back about the same time you did and was blown away by the changes. Neu Ulm/Ulm will always have a special place in my heart.
I was stationed at Nelson Kaserne from 84-87. Man you cannot recognize the place now.
wow, the last couple mins were very familiar. Lived there from 86 to 90. You almost drove by where I lived, it was like 2 buildings down from where you turned down the old upper O-grade housing. I remember that big hill with the sketchy slide on top of it by the old YMCA that you drove by. played coach pitch baseball behind that yellow apartment complex by the upper O-grade housing. So many memories.
I was an MP there from Feb 83 to Aug 84. Loved that town! Remember seeing our Mopeds in the Summer? Corny looking but sure beat a hot van with no AC. You may also remember the 4000 no-nukes protesters every Easter at Wiley gate. The bowling alley across from Wiley had the best Jaeger Schnitzel! I visited there in 92 and it was still a sad abandoned wreck full of immigrant squatters. Neu Ulm looked like a ghost town without the Army economy. I wonder when it turned around? Crazy now!
OMG, I don't know if I should smile or cry, I was there until 91 when everything was almost closed. We had some great times there!!! Sure do miss it
I remember all of those places. My pops was in the 4/5 Infantry in the army. I love ulm/ neu ulm. Im going back finally in a year after all these years. We were there from 83 to 86. We stayed in Ford housing
I was there in 1969 and don't recognize anything except the snow in this video :'(
I went back there on vacation in 79 and the barracks was still there...
Wow, what a blast from the past and a peek into the future. I was there from 84-87. 1st, in HHB, 1/81 COMMO, then D Battery, 1/9, COMSEC CUSTODIAN.
Great times were had there.
Was stationed at Wiley Kaserne 2nd Batallion 33rd Field Artillery June 1978- November 1980.
HHB 2/ 33 F.A. Radar section, I think "Roebocker" was battalion commander then 🤔 1st Sgt. our "TOP" was Capello, I don't remember everybody from those years 🪖🪂
I was posted there from '85 until '87 when the 4/5 rotated back to Kansas. Sad to see that part of mine and so many other soldiers history has changed. I loved that post, and the city...thanks for the video. Made an old soldiers day! Bravo Team,,HHB 4/5 F.A.
HHB 1/81, Ammo Platoon, '84 and '85. Visited in 2013 on vacation. Going to go back one more time in a few more years. Lovely town, fond memories. Thanks for posting this bro.
I was there in '85
Do you remember Carter, Martin, Wendell, Swearingen? I took over from 1LT Morgan.
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Yes, SFC Swearingen was the platoon sergeant, Carter E6 SL, Martin E5 (6?) and Wendell E5.
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I probably wasn't one of your favorite soldiers, that's for sure... But email if you want...
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Wow! Brings back memories. You mentioned Bobby Loy, too. I remember that name. Thanks for the video.
A company, 2/4 Inf, Nelson Barrack lol 1982 to 1986
Thank you, brought back lots of memories.
What an experience seeing the old Wiley. I was in C btry 1/81st there from '76-'78. I have many photos and memories, and a patch from the Ulm Rod and Gun Club in the old pow bunkers on post. If I were to go see it all today I would probably just be a teary eyed mess for a while, before I got down to the business of reconnecting with the past and a bier or zwei.
I grew up there, riding my bike to school, passing some of you guys (maybe not you personally, you know what I mean though) on your morning excercise. I remember someone jumping on the back of my bike, hitching a ride for a few meters. Must have been in '88 or '89. I also remember a classmate's mom worked "inside" and she took us to Burger King (was it? or McDonalds? Can't quite remember) after swimming lessons. Classmates name is Michael Snook. I also remember vividly the "open days" when we could go in for the fun-fair.
hey guys! cool to read this comments..i lived in the "elefantensiedlung" close to the Baracks when i was a child and i saw you soldiers every day..now i still live here and this video let me think about the old times:)
I was a Sp4 in the S2 of HHB, at Wiley from 1983-86. Needless to say, things have changed!
I was stationed @ Wiley , B Btry Como from 75-77. Thanks for the great video, things have really changed
I worked at 22nd medical detachement in 1986 under CO Neil Johnson.
Thanks for the video.I am saving it.
I was there in Service Battery 1\81st FA. I worked in the orderly room for Major Michaud and Major Monaghan.
Wow, what a trip down memory lane. You even drove right past my house on "Brass Alley". Thanks for posting this video!
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I was in Service Battery 79-81 and seeing the snow reminded me of the two times I did battalion sergeant of the guard on Christmas Day, first time my name got white-out in and the next year I asked for the duty so a married man would be home with his family. It was actually a good duty to have since you wasn't going anywhere and never had any trouble with the troops because they were all burned out by time I took over the duty on Christmas morning. Good memories.
I was in C Battery 1st/81st from June 68 (pre-Wiley) until Jan. 71. I returned to visit the Ulm Christmas market in Dec 2007, and we had a hard time finding Wiley due to the new train tracks and train station and general expansion in New-Ulm. When we finally found it, the old buildings were all gone except for the church, EM club, and guard shack. This video looks like a lot of construction happened very shortly after my visit. My wife enjoyed Ulm better that most of our other destinations.
I spent 3 years there, 85 to 88, with last year being on post. We lived very close to the Food Land, in one of those reddish buildings. Fond memories of Neu-Ulm.
I was there during that time!!!
What unit Derrick? I was over on Wiley in B 1/81 then 1/9FA
I was there too. I was a Pershing Missile Crewmember. I loved days of the protesters. We got to stay on base and hang out at the NCO Club all day playing slots and drinking.
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As a citizen of Neu-Ulm I want to thank all Americans for their service in Germany! Feel free to visit anytime!
I was stationed there in '84 and '85. Went back in 2013. I'll be back, if the world gets over COVID.
I agree!
Great video! I was there in HHB 2/33 FA from 79 - 81. The movie theater is at 4:15. The firing battery barracks are at 4:18 - 4:26, and at 4:31 the white building behind the trees was the mess hall.
dibble caine I was HHB 2/33 F.A. radar section, across from movie theater, Bowling alley close by Rod &Gun club not to far anybody remember SKI ? he was that old civilian who had a room on first foor hhb, across from medics He used to work on the Howitzers,he drove a VW beatle.. Golden Lions !
OMG !!! The memories !!! I was there '78-'81.. I remember when we picked the Marauders as mascot for high school. my dad was the club systems manager for Wiley and Nelson.
Shiffler? Do you have a sister named Lisa? We lived in 365 A-5 for a while. Went back and forth a number of times. That was a long time ago.
Lived in Leipheim and went to Jr. High there in 76 and 77 ... cool video !
I was there during the time and remember the protesters by the back 40. I was in HQ Commo from 83-85. I returned in 2003 & 2006, then they had stated rebuilding the base. I ate at Club Wiley (old NCO Club).
Was there 77-79, then again 81-84. Then 87-91 at HQ 56th PERFECT TEAM, so alot of trips back to Wiley@
I was in Swabish Gmund. Yea it's spelled wrong. I got there in 1988 and was there to the end. I was a mechanic and remember working day and night to get everything turned in. Some of my best memories of the military. 56th FA. That patch with the top tab.
@chappymcso I was B Btry commo from "76" - "79". The Rod and Gun Club was one a my favorite watering holes.
I was stationed at Nelson Barracks in 74-75 56th FA b 2/4 does any of the Barracks still exist? Thank you
was in Neu Ulm form 76-79. Had an incident with Ratt-Rigg in field. Carbon Minoxide poisioning. Trying to find who medic was in 2/33 FA. during incident. Or do anyone remember incident Walter Brooks was First Sargent. also Captain was Jannson No anything 252-558-2739 Fleming
I remember those kinds of incidents w/ carbon monoxide poisoning every now & then, I was HHB 3/33 F.A. 1977- 80 Radar section, my Radar equipment was so Old because it used Vacuum tubes 😅😂 a few times when arriving @ Grafenwöhr for reforger/ field problems FTX's field duty, we'd set up operations but couldn't operate because of a vacuum tube issue, our warrant officer had to go all around Graff & look for a certain vacuum tube, from all the other Radar sites there at the time so we would all just chill out and drink some brews 🍻🍷 fun times !
Update from my comment 2 years ago -- I took my daughter to Germany in May 2012 and once again drove through the former Nelson and Wiley. Last time was 1992 which looked like a ghost town but now thriving again. I was told by a German relative that Germany made out well on the Euro conversion which fueled a manufacturing expansion. Almost no traces left of the former Nelson & Wiley now with thriving industrial and residential additions (and no East German squatters like in 1992)
the reason why it looked like a ghost town was the unclear ownership status. Germany owned the place when the Us Army left and Neu-Ulm bought it in 93-94.
Here's the story from a different angle: We were schoolboys in 1990, when we first came into Wiley - there was a sale of old army stuff; I still have two not exactly matching rubberboots from then. Next time was 1992 after the place was given to the Bundesvermögensamt. That was the "ghost-town"-time. Nice tours around the place by night - sadly there soon was much damage done by some idiots. The first two objects that were put into use again apart from the houses in the Vorfeld were the Dietrich Theater as a cinema (I remember the first shows with about 10 people in the big hall) and the "bunker" as an unusual bar.
I remember, the streets and buildings in spite of the changes. I like the changes that have been instituted now that we are no longer there. The entire greater Neu Ulm community had been our playground. I have been back I stayed there for one week during my two vacation in Germany. It is funny how much the mind retains once you are back on the base.
I was there 1985-1988. 1/9th HHSB. I was the NBC NCO.
I left 1985 I worked there at the snack bar omg
I lived in neu ulm from jan 70 to july 1978 lived in bldg 376 C2 my dad was battalion mantinance 1/81st and my mom worked in the food stand in the motor pool me and my brother sold the stars and stripes paper in the mess halls ..
I saw the window to my old room. I was just inside the main gate to the right. The first building. 1986 - 1987 I was a Pershing Missile Crewmember.
Headquarters 4/5 ....rotated back to Fort Riley Kansas. Loved it in Germany. Wish I could go back someday.
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Derrick Huge I was in the advance party that rotated 2/5 into Wiley. You guys got our old barracks back at Ft Riley. I still remember the old cobblestones in the motor pool.
Heeey!!! Childhood memories!!! 367 A1 Vorfield Housing '81- '84.
Wuts up man. We stayed in ford housing when i was a kid. Use to come to the dya by vorfield
83- 86
I was there from 1983 to 1986 B 2/4th Inf Bn, I don't recognize much from the video, I guess I was buzzed most of my off time lol, but good times in Germany.
Did u know my pops?? James White? 4/5 infantry army
Not sure, but maybe. I don't recall the name, but we went by last names or nicknames, if I saw a picture from back in the day I may know him.
I use live their you have video of the slide by the school
I was in Svc. Btry. 1979-81 and it's hard to believe they would tear down those wonderful barracks on Wiley. OK, I was joking, they were a dump but some good memories like pulling Christmas day sergeant of the guard two years in a row.
I was the Service Battery Orderly Room Clerk from 1972-1974. I was a 15E and was originally assigned to Ammo Platoon, but because I had such great clerical skills, the Army made use of them in the Orderly Room. Major Carrier had just left when I arrived, Major Zebell took over from him and my final months we had Captain Larry E. Jarvis from Sac City, Iowa. He could be hard on you, but he was a kind man underneath. Both Zebell and Jarvis invited the Orderly Room guys over for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. Very memorable days for this once young man. Thanks again for the video update.
Major Jarvis was head of the missile school at Redstone Arsenal, AL I was attending when I was going through to be a 21L in 1977 and I stayed on as permanent party until June of 1979 and he was still there. I thought he was a real character and liked him but I didn't worked for him while stationed on Redstone but I saw him most every day. He would come though where I worked and always stopped by to say hello and to see what was going on and just shoot the breeze for a few minutes.
If I remember correctly, and I have a pretty good memory, Jarvis was an enlisted man that went OCS and originally was stationed in Service Battery as the Battalion Maintenance Head. He was the only Officer I served with who would regularly enter the Orderly Room with grease all over his pants and back as he would gladly get under trucks to help install MWO's on equipment. He could get in your face on occasion, as he did with me one time, but in the end he wrote me a fine letter of recommendation when I left the Service in 1974. I always appreciated that from Captain/Major Jarvis. And his wife was a very sweet woman. For Christmas one year, Jarvis had bought his son a "Rock-Em, Sock-Em" toy and he got right down on the floor with his son, in the presence of all of us, and boxed with his son and his new toy. I have nothing but fond memories of my service in Neu Ulm. I gained 15 pounds eating those good German meals at the Posthorn. The world was so different then.
I saw him in his khakis climb under a truck more than once at the school and the old timers said that's just the way he is. But what was funny one time I remember was the way he took of his hat and gently sat it down on top of some papers before he crawled under the deuce and a half and to do grease work like a regular soldier and you had to respect any man who would do that and I never felt he did it for show or to make points with the enlisted.
Absolutely, he was a blue collar Commander if there ever was one. I think he did it because he loved it and he knew that by doing it he endeared himself to his troops.
I was there in 76 , B Btry Commo also
The old Housing (around the shopette) is today's Ghetto , all were converted into City Housing (section 8 in the USA) (highest Crime rate of the city) only the officers housing were converted to condos and some of them were bought by the Deutsche Post (german postal service) for their employees and yes the old school is still a school (middle school)
3:06 :D nice one
it was almost green^^
Does anyone want to see how this area looks today? I am happy to upload a video.
I was stationed at Wiley in 63 - 64 with a small USAF detachment . Watched the Army leave base the day JFK was killed . Thought the end was near . We were in the last building shown in the video .
Is this the old Wiley Kaserne?
Wie der einfach über rot fährt xD als obs normal wär
wow you did not show the snack bar I worked there
well i live there...
B Btry, 1976-1979, Commo
Alpha battery 151 Pershing Wiley 82 -84 commo the it'll do on base , der holtzverm off base . der puftahaus the liberty club 🗽 all of it, yeah and slushy snow.
Geil 👍🏻
Aber es wird Zeit das alle US Soldaten in ihre Heimat zurückkehren.