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DAVE: In Disneyland they say, “IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTERALL”. I found Jack's address. As a matter of fact he wrote to me asking about BRA, GAP and Chiemsee. Here is his letter:
Thanks for the quick response. I'll get to work on material for the timeline.
One question. When in BGaden bartending at the E Club, I organized/promoted a broomstick hockey game between the Ski Patrol and the perm party. Real brooms were used and the puck was a beer can well taped at the ends to insure that no flying beer can would cut a cheek or face...I think the year was winter of 69-70 around New Years? During that same time period the CO (Miller?) heard about our night rodel parties and supplied a bus to reduce the necessity of drinking and driving. We were amazed that he actually cared.
I remember the Columbia very well. Our inspections in Munich took us to every USAEUR (sp) installation in Munich, Lengreis, Bad Aibling, Bad Tolz and a few AF installations so isolated I couldn't tell you where they were.
Unfortunately, I was not into history while in Munich, only later when I arrived in BGDN because I was surrounded by it. We inspected the bar and restauarant at the Columbia but I remember little else except that one of the SSGT's with the Preventive Medicine section had a real gambling habit and that once away from the hospital we always stopped at the Columbia so that he could play the slots.
In refernce to the inspections in B'Garden two of us would drive down from Munich and stay at either the HOF or the Bellevue for a day or two and get all of the inspections done for the month. We were required to see each installation once per month throughout the southern Bavaria district. We were excluded from "real army installations like Infantry, Armored, Artillery except for the snack bars that were operated by the exchange system. Because we made the reservatons at the hotel we knew that everyone would be ready for us, but that didn't bother us in fact it helped as command would prep them and most of the needed repair, placement and cleaning was done before we had to bring up the subject.
I knew I was in a special place at the HOF when they brought out the ice bucket for the wine. It was a free standing bucket, table high, and on the side was the Nazi eagle and a hackenkruz, crooked cross, leftover from the war years. I always wanted to midnight requistion one of them...never did.
Last then I'll have to go. In the late summer of 66 several of the ex army then civilians started going into the bunkers through Bormans residence. We found the entry under his basement. A safe about 6 feet high by 30-4- inches wide and a foot or two deep was laying on it's face with an obvious explosive hole in the back. Very curious. Under the old SS Kaserne was a rifle/pistol range and under that were steps leading down but the lower area was flooded from undergrounds sources...was always curious of that area. In the range, at the end, were large piles of sand as backs to the tagets I assume. One weekend we dug about 200 expended rounds out of the sand and in a fit of enterprise, consdiering that we were broke, sold them for a buck or two each to friends and afrc vacationers.
Enough for now,
All the best
Jack
[ mailto:oregonjack@comcast.net]
Jack is working on “goodies“ for the AFRC TIMELINE. JIM
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