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16 September 2023
Back in the 70s while the infantry company I was assigned to was at the training area in Baumholder, Germany. I was put into an M60A1 tank. It was the first and only time I'd been in a tank. I think I was a buck sergeant, but I may have been a staff sergeant by then, I'm not sure. The tank and crew were going through a live fire range, and I was in charge of safety. Quite remarkable actually because I didn't have a clue. Having a safety officer in the tank was a requirement. The only thing I could tell them was to keep their gun pointed down range. It occurs to me that if something would have gone wrong, there would be a fall guy. But all's well that ends well.
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The Training Support Center, Baumholder has been around for decades. Units would travel there by convoy or rail and stay for weeks. I just read that it opened in 1938 to train the German army. The French had it for a while after the war, the Americans took it over in 1950.
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He probably trained there, but at one time it had the largest concentration of American forces outside of the US. So, there were many Americans living and working there.
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in reply to Swede’s Photographs • • •I believe US, UK, and FR all used it during the occupation.
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Yes that is true, after as well.
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In my traveling days, I tried to believe that places didn't exist until I had visited them. I did visit Baumholder but was too young to remember.
So cool to see that word again.