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REFORGER Pg. 9

 

 

REFORGER 85

18 February to 20 February

 

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Monday 18 February - The train ride from Hammelburg to Bremerhaven was relatively uneventful. After arriving at the docks, we sat on the train for about half an hour, waiting. Then Major Garr roared up in a rented Mercedes, pulled off the road and boarded the train. He wasn't aware that Gibbs and his crew from Benning would be with us and had not made arrangements for accommodations for them. He and Sawyers sped off in the Mercedes when Powers showed up in a van to pick us and our baggage up.

Tuesday 19 February - We had breakfast at the dining facility. Listened to AFN (Armed Forces Network) Bremerhaven Radio. Bret and I answered trivia questions from a copy of People Magazine that he had bought at RAA. Did you know that Julio Iglesis has three swimming pools at his villa in Spain?

0920 Hours - Preparing to go to the docks after playing a couple of rounds of Pinochle with two dummy partners. I learned that Bret's parents were killed in 1977 in the Canary Islands when a KLM plane taking off for Holland hit the Pan Am plane that his parents were on, during take-off. They were bound for a Mediterranean cruise. 

Wednesday 20 February - We woke to the cannons, bugle and raising of the flag, prepared to go to breakfast and Sawyers realized that it was 0730 and we were too late.  They only serve breakfast from 0600 - 0730. We had thought they raised the flag at 0600, the same as back at Carson. Not so, they raised the flag at 0700 here.

So Blatnicky and I went to the snack bar for breakfast. Bret and SFC Sawyers went to see Major Garr for our instructions for the morning. I ordered scrambled eggs on toast (which wasn't on the snack bar menu). The girl was confused and asked if I wanted one egg or two. I said "two". I ended up with two sandwiches with two eggs on each one. With the coffee, it was $1 (one dollar). The girl smiled and said "enjoy". Looking back on it now as I read from my diary, I think everyone around us knew what we'd been through for the last two months. Maybe this young lady was trying to help nourish me (I probably weighed 135 to 145 lbs. back then).

After breakfast we headed back to the barracks. We met Bret and Sawyers in front of the library coming to join us. Sawyers had a small box with TCMB's for 4th Aviation's Hueys and other equipment that was going back on the Eagle.

We returned to the snack bar and had coffee while we sorted the packing lists and tore the computer print-outs off by "type". Bret and Sawyers had breakfast. Bret ran off to play a video game at the far end of the cafeteria. His breakfast got cold and we had to wait on him to eat when he returned.

0930 Hours - We hurried off to start our work for the day. Blatnicky and I were to post the TCMB's to the Hueys while Bret and Sawyers checked the oil and anti-freeze levels in the Chaperrals and Vulcans. Gibbs and his crew were to gather any trash they found in the other vehicles that were going on the Eagle. 

 

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