Warriors: 12th Infantry Regiment, H D Smith Barracks
Folks,
I'll go out on a limb here in search of some fellows whose names I can't remember. I will remember them if someone can remind me, but for the moment I'm stuck. From recollection all of these gentlemen were in the unit for the redesignation from 1/39 Inf (M) in 1989.
Roger the BICC
Roger worked in the S-2 team as the battlefield information control center officer or BICC. He was a smart, quiet guy who worked in the lock-up there in the Battalion Headquarters. I can't remember his last name to save me, but I recall his face as if I'd just left yesterday. His wife was with the engineer unit on the other side of happy valley.
The Injured LT
We were coming back from Hohenfels in, let's see, must've been the middle of 1988 or 1989. Summer weather. Got an emergency call over the radio that a TC had been injured out on the autobahn. Turns out that one of our LTs was riding up top of an M113 when the fastening mount for the hatch broke, and he got mousetrapped there in the cupola. The hatch slammed shut on his head and the only thing that saved him was the CVC helmet. He was badly hurt and, after a while, I think he was medically retired. Now, I just cannot remember his name, but I had many a pleasant chat with him and his wife, including right before I took my European out. They had met as students in Heidelberg where they'd spent a couple of years before he joined the Army, and he gave me the low-down on the town before I moved there permanently in late 1989. What was his name?
The CMSU Sig Tau
There was a fellow who turned up at the unit in, what was it, 1988? who came to the unit after going to school at Central Missouri State University. I'd been there myself and it turned out we knew some of the same people; in fact, he'd been in the Sig Tau fraternity and was close to a few guys I used to dorm with back in Warrensburg, Missouri. Anyway, he and I were shooting pool together the night I won the big Officers Wives Club raffle that they ran for the Baumholder Milcom. I took away something like seven thousand dollars by the time all the checks had come through . . . but that's another story. Now, someone out there must surely be able to remind me of this guy's name.
If any of these rings a bell, please email me and pass along the news.
Thanks!
I'll go out on a limb here in search of some fellows whose names I can't remember. I will remember them if someone can remind me, but for the moment I'm stuck. From recollection all of these gentlemen were in the unit for the redesignation from 1/39 Inf (M) in 1989.
Roger the BICC
Roger worked in the S-2 team as the battlefield information control center officer or BICC. He was a smart, quiet guy who worked in the lock-up there in the Battalion Headquarters. I can't remember his last name to save me, but I recall his face as if I'd just left yesterday. His wife was with the engineer unit on the other side of happy valley.
The Injured LT
We were coming back from Hohenfels in, let's see, must've been the middle of 1988 or 1989. Summer weather. Got an emergency call over the radio that a TC had been injured out on the autobahn. Turns out that one of our LTs was riding up top of an M113 when the fastening mount for the hatch broke, and he got mousetrapped there in the cupola. The hatch slammed shut on his head and the only thing that saved him was the CVC helmet. He was badly hurt and, after a while, I think he was medically retired. Now, I just cannot remember his name, but I had many a pleasant chat with him and his wife, including right before I took my European out. They had met as students in Heidelberg where they'd spent a couple of years before he joined the Army, and he gave me the low-down on the town before I moved there permanently in late 1989. What was his name?
The CMSU Sig Tau
There was a fellow who turned up at the unit in, what was it, 1988? who came to the unit after going to school at Central Missouri State University. I'd been there myself and it turned out we knew some of the same people; in fact, he'd been in the Sig Tau fraternity and was close to a few guys I used to dorm with back in Warrensburg, Missouri. Anyway, he and I were shooting pool together the night I won the big Officers Wives Club raffle that they ran for the Baumholder Milcom. I took away something like seven thousand dollars by the time all the checks had come through . . . but that's another story. Now, someone out there must surely be able to remind me of this guy's name.
If any of these rings a bell, please email me and pass along the news.
Thanks!
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