Wow how it change I lived there from 1983 to 1986 my dad was stationed on graves,I also played football the Aschaffenburg falcons my dad played football for graves.the only teacher I remember is Mr.bean the school has changed a lot.when I first moved the I lived in 625 c8 then we moved to 695 R4 u showed it in your window.this video brings a lot of memories I was 9 years old I’m 50 now but i still remember a lot the Burger King.
Wow, what a change. I knew a lot had changed since I was stationed at Ready Barracks in 1982-83 but I wasn't prepared for the neglect. It is probably for the better that militarism is replaced by civilian order. Thanks for the memories.
E co. 1-7 INF, 3rd ID, 1984-85, Graves Kaserne. A Burg was a great place to be stationed at (when there wasn’t an alert or at Grafenwoer). I remember the CQ would run down each hall in our building yelling “LARIAT ADVANCE” which was the words to indicate an alert. We always kept our ruck and B bag packed and on top of our wall locker so they were ready to go. Back then E Company was an Anti Armor company where we used the TOW missile system and M-901 ITV’s which were just an M-113 with a TOW turret mounted on it. I enjoyed driving the M-113 but it sucked when we had to break track or change out the track pads, lol. Jaeger Kaserne had all the shops where we could buy electronics or stuff at the PX, they had a good movie theater there which I’d go to each weekend. Back in 84-85 there was a lot of great movies so it was rare we’d get a crappy movie…well, I do remember that dumb movie called “Breakin” and a couple other B movies. In 84 the Army changed over to the electronic pay system instead of cash and the only ATM was on Jaeger Kaserne and we had to have a checking account from American Express and a few men in my unit were kicked out of the Army for bouncing checks but they were great at their job. A couple years before I arrived some of the men put a Soldier in a wall locker then threw it out the 3rd story window but it killed the guy. And the carnivals were great! Seems like every 3 or 4 months there was some fest so it was rarely a boring time. I enjoyed exploring the old ruins that was the remnants of WWII structures that were blown to hell. The forest next to Graves Kaserne had huge bomb craters that were partially filled in but it was obvious they were made by at least a 500lb bomb. There was a “walkplatz” in downtown Aschaffenburg that had a couple American fast food restaurants as well as a McDonalds that was by the train station. During WWII allied bombers avoided hitting the castle but one bomb hit a corner of it, don’t know if they finally replaced it. The last time I visited A Burg was in 2006 while we were stationed in Baumholder, I took my family to see my first duty station.
@@stevenmcintosh6413 yep, we were there the same time then. I didn’t know your dad though, there was 5 other companies on the Kaserne (Graves Kaserne) but he was in the same Battalion as I was which was 1-7 Infantry Regt, 3rd Infantry Division. It was a nice place all in all, we were a 30 minute train ride to Frankfurt and Aschaffenburg had a lot of good places to visit. These days the barracks your dad and I lived in were converted into apartments and used to house people from the former east Germany then later it was for low income and refugee housing. Graves Kaserne was made right before WWII and a German SS unit was stationed there, on the top of each stairwell the Germans had anti aircraft artillery, must’ve been quad 20mm guns. We had quite a few ‘Fests’ about every 3-4 months which were basically fairs where there was a lot of beer, lol. Your dad can probably fill you in on the story about when someone burned our cotton bale at Bn HQ one time, lol, they’re probably still wondering who did it.
@@stevenmcintosh6413 I remember the Bradleys in the motor pool, ask him if he enjoyed doing cold start procedures during the winter. My MOS was 11H and we used the M-113 APC with the TOW “hammerhead” mounted on it and relabeled as the M-109. If you’d like to know how your dad would’ve fought in a war back in the 80’s, get the book “Team Yankee”, it’s very accurate on the tactics we use/used. The winters in A-burg were cold as hell in January and February but summers were wonderful. Back then I was 19-20 years old and it was my first duty station so it was an amazing experience, I highly recommend it to any qualified young man, which I’m sure you are.
@@stevenmcintosh6413 failed to explain why we had a cotton bale at our Bn HQ. 1-7 Infantry Regiment was formed before the war of 1812 and we fought at the Battle of New Orleans and while there we took cover behind large cotton bales near the port where the British army hand landed and we fought them there. So since then our Regiment was called “The Cotton Balers” (I may be using the wrong word for bale, maybe it’s ‘bail’. So the cotton bale became a symbol in our unit crest and we were gifted a large cotton bale from New Orleans years ago and it was in a small display enclosure in front of the Bn HQ on Graves Kaserne. Apparently some intoxicated men got the idea to set it on fire but it was a few months before I arrived at the unit. Our unit (including your dad) spent a LOT of time doing field training, in the 18 months I was there we spent over 200 days away from Graves. It wasn’t like we were digging foxholes all the time, I only dug one while there, we’d be sent to some area and do some gunnery training at Grafenwoer and living in Tent City (your dad can tell you about that place, lol) and on REFORGER exercises that lasted a couple weeks. It took a lot of time to get to various places, we had to load everything on a train then it’d take a couple days on the train which we mostly just slept all the time as we stopped what seemed like every little town along the way. In 85 we went to an area called Ulm, it’s some German town/area and did training there for a couple weeks, it was pretty interesting. All in all it was a good experience and not like some insane prison as some make the older Army make it out to be, the Army takes crimes and hazing seriously. We had Pt at 05:55 each morning then final formation at 16:30 (4:30 PM) and we were off until the next day. We had weekends and all holidays off but we also had guard duty in the motor pool which was a pain in the ass where we’d be on guard shift for 2 hours twice in a 24 hour period but it was rare for us to be put on guard duty, I did it 3 times in 18 months. Back then we were concerned about someone getting into our new Bradleys which had live ammo in them, they were the only ones who had live ammo, it was stored under the floor boards of the Bradley interior. It’s my hope that you can sit with your dad and ask him about the things I wrote about in these messages, it’ll make him smile for sure. I went back to Germany in 2002-2007 at Baumholder with 2-6 INF, 1st AD and deployed to Iraq in 2003-04, I was also in the Gulf War with 2/502 INF, 101st ABN as an 11H Tank Destroyer. I’m sure your dad has some incredible stories but often our kids aren’t too interested in the little things which I understand, I was young once and I wish I had ask my Grandfather more questions about WWII.
Our family went to the Jaeger Chapel some Sundays and we went to one Christmas Eve service at the church across from Ready Barracks where dad was at HHC 3BD 3ID
I have been trying to find anything about when my dad was stationed in Germany in 1969 to 1972... His name is Daniel Thomas Bolen .... Anyone recognize his name?
Wow how it change I lived there from 1983 to 1986 my dad was stationed on graves,I also played football the Aschaffenburg falcons my dad played football for graves.the only teacher I remember is Mr.bean the school has changed a lot.when I first moved the I lived in 625 c8 then we moved to 695 R4 u showed it in your window.this video brings a lot of memories I was 9 years old I’m 50 now but i still remember a lot the Burger King.
The school, the AYA building, the barracks, so many great memories! Thanks
I was stationed in Aschaffenburg main post HHC 9th Engineers 82-84. I had a great time in Germany.
Wow, what a change. I knew a lot had changed since I was stationed at Ready Barracks in 1982-83 but I wasn't prepared for the neglect. It is probably for the better that militarism is replaced by civilian order. Thanks for the memories.
I was also stationed at Ready Barracks from 1982-1984, Delta Company 4/64 and Delta 3/69
E co. 1-7 INF, 3rd ID, 1984-85, Graves Kaserne. A Burg was a great place to be stationed at (when there wasn’t an alert or at Grafenwoer). I remember the CQ would run down each hall in our building yelling “LARIAT ADVANCE” which was the words to indicate an alert. We always kept our ruck and B bag packed and on top of our wall locker so they were ready to go. Back then E Company was an Anti Armor company where we used the TOW missile system and M-901 ITV’s which were just an M-113 with a TOW turret mounted on it. I enjoyed driving the M-113 but it sucked when we had to break track or change out the track pads, lol. Jaeger Kaserne had all the shops where we could buy electronics or stuff at the PX, they had a good movie theater there which I’d go to each weekend. Back in 84-85 there was a lot of great movies so it was rare we’d get a crappy movie…well, I do remember that dumb movie called “Breakin” and a couple other B movies. In 84 the Army changed over to the electronic pay system instead of cash and the only ATM was on Jaeger Kaserne and we had to have a checking account from American Express and a few men in my unit were kicked out of the Army for bouncing checks but they were great at their job. A couple years before I arrived some of the men put a Soldier in a wall locker then threw it out the 3rd story window but it killed the guy. And the carnivals were great! Seems like every 3 or 4 months there was some fest so it was rarely a boring time. I enjoyed exploring the old ruins that was the remnants of WWII structures that were blown to hell. The forest next to Graves Kaserne had huge bomb craters that were partially filled in but it was obvious they were made by at least a 500lb bomb. There was a “walkplatz” in downtown Aschaffenburg that had a couple American fast food restaurants as well as a McDonalds that was by the train station. During WWII allied bombers avoided hitting the castle but one bomb hit a corner of it, don’t know if they finally replaced it. The last time I visited A Burg was in 2006 while we were stationed in Baumholder, I took my family to see my first duty station.
My dad was stationed on graves from 1983 to 1986 his name was sgt McIntosh he also played football for graves
@@stevenmcintosh6413 yep, we were there the same time then. I didn’t know your dad though, there was 5 other companies on the Kaserne (Graves Kaserne) but he was in the same Battalion as I was which was 1-7 Infantry Regt, 3rd Infantry Division. It was a nice place all in all, we were a 30 minute train ride to Frankfurt and Aschaffenburg had a lot of good places to visit. These days the barracks your dad and I lived in were converted into apartments and used to house people from the former east Germany then later it was for low income and refugee housing. Graves Kaserne was made right before WWII and a German SS unit was stationed there, on the top of each stairwell the Germans had anti aircraft artillery, must’ve been quad 20mm guns. We had quite a few ‘Fests’ about every 3-4 months which were basically fairs where there was a lot of beer, lol. Your dad can probably fill you in on the story about when someone burned our cotton bale at Bn HQ one time, lol, they’re probably still wondering who did it.
@@echohunter4199 thank u for the memories all I can remember he was a tank commander for the Bradley I’ll have to ask him about burning the burning.
@@stevenmcintosh6413 I remember the Bradleys in the motor pool, ask him if he enjoyed doing cold start procedures during the winter. My MOS was 11H and we used the M-113 APC with the TOW “hammerhead” mounted on it and relabeled as the M-109. If you’d like to know how your dad would’ve fought in a war back in the 80’s, get the book “Team Yankee”, it’s very accurate on the tactics we use/used. The winters in A-burg were cold as hell in January and February but summers were wonderful. Back then I was 19-20 years old and it was my first duty station so it was an amazing experience, I highly recommend it to any qualified young man, which I’m sure you are.
@@stevenmcintosh6413 failed to explain why we had a cotton bale at our Bn HQ. 1-7 Infantry Regiment was formed before the war of 1812 and we fought at the Battle of New Orleans and while there we took cover behind large cotton bales near the port where the British army hand landed and we fought them there. So since then our Regiment was called “The Cotton Balers” (I may be using the wrong word for bale, maybe it’s ‘bail’. So the cotton bale became a symbol in our unit crest and we were gifted a large cotton bale from New Orleans years ago and it was in a small display enclosure in front of the Bn HQ on Graves Kaserne. Apparently some intoxicated men got the idea to set it on fire but it was a few months before I arrived at the unit. Our unit (including your dad) spent a LOT of time doing field training, in the 18 months I was there we spent over 200 days away from Graves. It wasn’t like we were digging foxholes all the time, I only dug one while there, we’d be sent to some area and do some gunnery training at Grafenwoer and living in Tent City (your dad can tell you about that place, lol) and on REFORGER exercises that lasted a couple weeks. It took a lot of time to get to various places, we had to load everything on a train then it’d take a couple days on the train which we mostly just slept all the time as we stopped what seemed like every little town along the way. In 85 we went to an area called Ulm, it’s some German town/area and did training there for a couple weeks, it was pretty interesting. All in all it was a good experience and not like some insane prison as some make the older Army make it out to be, the Army takes crimes and hazing seriously. We had Pt at 05:55 each morning then final formation at 16:30 (4:30 PM) and we were off until the next day. We had weekends and all holidays off but we also had guard duty in the motor pool which was a pain in the ass where we’d be on guard shift for 2 hours twice in a 24 hour period but it was rare for us to be put on guard duty, I did it 3 times in 18 months. Back then we were concerned about someone getting into our new Bradleys which had live ammo in them, they were the only ones who had live ammo, it was stored under the floor boards of the Bradley interior.
It’s my hope that you can sit with your dad and ask him about the things I wrote about in these messages, it’ll make him smile for sure. I went back to Germany in 2002-2007 at Baumholder with 2-6 INF, 1st AD and deployed to Iraq in 2003-04, I was also in the Gulf War with 2/502 INF, 101st ABN as an 11H Tank Destroyer. I’m sure your dad has some incredible stories but often our kids aren’t too interested in the little things which I understand, I was young once and I wish I had ask my Grandfather more questions about WWII.
Our family went to the Jaeger Chapel some Sundays and we went to one Christmas Eve service at the church across from Ready Barracks where dad was at HHC 3BD 3ID
I washed the stairs in Bldg 616 R sometime between 70-72! For$2 I think! Wow! And I cut the yard also
HHC 1/7 inf, 86, 87. Strauss lizards & bier. And alerts…
I have been trying to find anything about when my dad was stationed in Germany in 1969 to 1972... His name is Daniel Thomas Bolen .... Anyone recognize his name?
I know EXACTLY where those tracks are