Stars and Stripes
Pentagon announces new Army, Air Force command assignments
Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Pentagon has announced several general officer assignments affecting major Army and Air Force commands in Europe and the Middle East.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"The Army assignments include:
Brig. Gen. Ralph O. Baker, deputy director for Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East) at The Joint Staff in Washington, D.C., has been assigned as assistant division commander, 1st Armored Division, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany."
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
S&S - U.S. Army Europe tries to save page in history
Stars and Stripes
U.S. Army Europe tries to save page in history
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, February 7, 2009
HEIDELBERG, Germany — Just before Gen. B.B. Bell departed U.S. Army Europe, he gladdened the hearts of his command historians with a grand idea: a world-class museum and convention center to be built at Grafenwöhr.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"(A)s units decamped from Germany in the force realignment, all manner of "artifacts" remained, piling up in warehouses, trailers and depots, or just hanging out near flag poles."
"(T)he 1st Armored Division is poised to return its headquarters from Baumholder to Fort Bliss, Texas. The question of what to do with all its artifacts — and the fact that when the 1st AD museum goes to Texas, there won’t be any museum in USAREUR — has raised anew the question of a museum to tell U.S. Army Europe’s story."
"That’s 140 big items like tanks and 2,700 little things such as uniforms, weapons, documents, rations, telephones."
"The 1st Infantry Division spent some $683,000 dismantling its award-winning museum and painstakingly packing and shipping, among other artifacts, 18 tanks to Fort Riley, Kan., when it left Germany in 2006."
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"Even while many artifacts have been returned to the U.S., others remain. Displays and artifacts from the 1st ID are being stored in a Thompkins Barracks warehouse in Schwetzingen. Then there is the depot in Germersheim, south of Heidelberg, where numerous old vehicles are being stored."
U.S. Army Europe tries to save page in history
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, February 7, 2009
HEIDELBERG, Germany — Just before Gen. B.B. Bell departed U.S. Army Europe, he gladdened the hearts of his command historians with a grand idea: a world-class museum and convention center to be built at Grafenwöhr.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"(A)s units decamped from Germany in the force realignment, all manner of "artifacts" remained, piling up in warehouses, trailers and depots, or just hanging out near flag poles."
"(T)he 1st Armored Division is poised to return its headquarters from Baumholder to Fort Bliss, Texas. The question of what to do with all its artifacts — and the fact that when the 1st AD museum goes to Texas, there won’t be any museum in USAREUR — has raised anew the question of a museum to tell U.S. Army Europe’s story."
"That’s 140 big items like tanks and 2,700 little things such as uniforms, weapons, documents, rations, telephones."
"The 1st Infantry Division spent some $683,000 dismantling its award-winning museum and painstakingly packing and shipping, among other artifacts, 18 tanks to Fort Riley, Kan., when it left Germany in 2006."
&
"Even while many artifacts have been returned to the U.S., others remain. Displays and artifacts from the 1st ID are being stored in a Thompkins Barracks warehouse in Schwetzingen. Then there is the depot in Germersheim, south of Heidelberg, where numerous old vehicles are being stored."
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