From: laptops (ltps4u@localnet.com)
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 19:27:22 PST
I went back to the base I was stationed at in Foley Ala (Navy) about 5 years
ago and its gone only the runways (aircraft) are still there.I was a kid
when I got there in 1952 and when I was discharged in 1955 I went home from
there.I figure I grew up there and when I saw it was gone I almost cryed as
it was like my home or home town was gone.
For MV contant I was a truck driver and equiptment operator.I also was part
of the aircraft crash crew.We went there to pick up the pieces.But that is
another story
Gordon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Ramstein
>I heard that they had made a decision to cut back within Germany but I did
>not hear that they were closing all bases there. I don't think they will
>close Ramstein nor Landstuhl but I could be wrong.
>
> I watched the Navy build billions of dollars worth of different buildings
> and infrastructure at the NTC in Orlando during the late eighties and then
> five or six years later they got bulldozed to the ground and the Navy
> closed up and moved away. Made me sick. I went back there after not being
> there for two or three years and had a hard time finding my way around to
> my Credit Union building, which did not get dozed but the city forced them
> the remodel it to fit in with all the buildings they built there. Talk
> about Government waste, geez
>
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dgrev" <dgrev@iinet.net.au>
> To: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
> Cc: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:16 PM
> Subject: Ramstein
>
>
>> Sonny
>>
>>> Does Ramstein ring a bell?
>>>
>>> I flew out of there on a C5A this past July. They have a huge new
>>> terminal building there and they are building a huge huge hotel just
>>> across the street from it.
>>
>> A few months back there was an article on TV that said the US was
>> closing all its bases in Germany in order to concentrate its
>> resources on the current problem areas.
>>
>> Either the media is wrong - now that would be a first, wouldn't it? ;-0
>>
>> Or somebody has spent a lot of money in the wrong place.
>>
>> Regards
>> Doug
>>
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