A few more Tolz patches
 

Everybody loves patches.

I still have the t-shirt and the sweatshirt with the JST logo printed on it...:cool:

I really liked the 10th Group flash with the German colors. Too bad it's not used anymore.

Mike

How is it going dude? I THINK I sent you an email after our link up in Toelz. (My daughter to be stills talks about you... Easy dude.)

Anyway, I know someone that would be interested in some old photos. He is doing a non-profit amateur book on the US time in Toelz.

Still got my Yahoo address? Contact me and I will link you two up, if you don't mind.

Al

Smart ass!!! :D I guess mine works, it is storage in AZ still. On my daughter's work laptop. It works and if it messes up, somebody that knows what they are doing fixes it. I`d love that CD Mike. I`ll pM you with my new address.

Found this one.

A few mementos from my time in Bad Tolz.

Sport Parachute Club patch circa '76 when John Raybon was NCOIC.

B Company circa '77 - CPT Sobichevski, SSG Crain (w/guidon) and SGM Seal + ODAs 12, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

SFODA-7 team patch made in Augsburg circa '77.

Richard :munchin

Hey Al,
nothing much here. So, your daughter is, huh ? I thought she liked the Garson better... LOL. Please tell her "hi" from me... :p

Email has been sent out to you.

10-4. Mike

Brad, PM received, CD will be out in the mail next week. Enjoy ! :D Talk to you soon brother.

Thanks alot Mike, appreciate it. That reminds me, going over to my ex wife's today for Thanksgiving. Now that I'm back here in CO, I'll look for some Tolz pics. she has all the old pictures. Some are in out in albums, but I think there are alot ,ore down packed away in boxes and there are a ton of boxes.

Tolzer bier
 

Sometime ago I saw some posts referring to the Tolzer beer. Is that brewery still there? I did take a couple of thier mugs with me. The Lowenbrau mug was one from the Munchen Octoberfest. Went with a guy named Doug Matz. As we finished one we 'd strap it to our belts. When we left you could hear us comming a mile away. Had to leave, couldn't fit any more around our waists. :D

Figured since by the time I get back to Tolz, I might have my grandaughter with me, I better start training the kid.

The old Patches
 

Gents,

All those old patches that you have attached to your posts are still available in Augsburg. Kalka's is still outside the old Sheridan Kaserne and in business. I stopped in there about a year ago looking for some stuff, and remember seeing all of those.

Stras sends

Brings back memories....:cool:

Stras is right, Kalka is still there. http://www.kalka-stick.de/Products.a...c-171ae5062042 If anyone cares for those patches, PM me. I'm sure I can arrange for something.

Brad, PM sent, CD will be in the mail shortly.

Mike out.

Thanks Mike, now i'll check the mail more often......

Brad, my pleasure. Envelope should be in CO. within 4-5 days.

Flint Kaserne Closure Ceremony
 

I took this photo before we were formed-up for the closure ceremony in '91.

Tolz Closure Coin
 

Here is the "Official" closure coin for Flint Kaserne. I traded someone (Chief Patrick from the dive team) for the low number of 9 and I was told that Col. Banks got number 1 or 2. The photos show front, back and the lid of the case it came in.

Hope this brings back memories.

More Bad Tolz pix.

Hello guys
This talk of Don Purdy really brings back some memories. He was the HHC 1sg when I graduated Ranger School in July 86 and arrived at 3/75 at Benning. He was a scary guy from the get-go....

DP: Are you married, Sgt Kennedy?
JK: Negative, First Sergeant.
DP: Girlfriend? Whatever, you should get rid of her...I knew it was over with my last wife when I came home. Even the curtains were gone. Damn woman took EVERYTHING!
(at this point, it is 1630 and he dozes off for a few seconds)
DP (awakening):Mmm, Hooooah.....Who the hell are you, son? (eyeing me)
JK: I'm SGT Kennedy, First Sergeant. I've been assigned to your company straight out of Ranger School.
DP: Hell, son, I'm going to put you in the supply room with Sgt XXX until you get your strength back. I send you to a line platoon now those Rangers will kill you! You married, Sgt Kennedy?
JK (with a stong sense of deja vu): Negative, First Sergeant.
DP: Got a girlfriend? You ought to get rid of her, she'll take everything you got.

"The Purd" was a legend. After I went to B Co, 3d Platoon in August 86 (to Doug Greenway's squad: he would go on to great things as a CSM) he would see me around the 3/75 compound and ask what I though of making all Rangers carry their weapon 24/7, with popup targets scattered throughout the BN area "just to keep the men sharp."
After I became a squad leader (as an E5) he would be at the front gate and go run PT with one of the line company squads, this being his time as 3/75 acting sergeant major. Great guy. We were at Bragg in '87 and Al Lamb and I were flipping a coin to see who would walk safety with him on one of the life fire Hogans Alley SOT ranges. He was hell on wheels with an MP5!

I was at Toelz from October 88 until the Stuttgart move, all my time in A co. I went back to Bragg in August 92, left the army in August 93 and two years later was in medical school.
Those times in Toelz were great, certainly one of the memorable periods of my life. Used to shoot at the rod and gun club a lot, especially with John Welton.
You guys stay safe!
Doc Kennedy

Welcome Dr Jay.......

Great photos Conrad. That one of the closing ceremony was a sad day.

Some more pictures of Tolz, but more recent. Haven't scanned my old slides yet.

(Damn, slides are outdated these days...)

I remember that closure ceremony. I stood next to Al D (from Co C) and thought for sure I would wet my dress green pants b/c he was busting so many jokes, like a ventriloquist, without moving his lips much.
Tolz was a great place, especially for a first assignment in SF straight out of the Q. There must have been 8 or 10 of us that lucked into the assignment. I remember Hartnett, Tokarski, "the Thompson Twins" (Marty and Mike)(no, they were not really twins!), Mike in C Co, and a couple others.
Good times, the best actually.
Dr J

Welcome Dr Jay
 

If I remember right at the closure ceremony the dudes running the music for the PA system accidentally played the long 10 minute-or-so extended version on the German National Anthem. It kept going and going and going. I bet Al D could even run out of jokes during that!

Reutberg
 

great pics Conrad...just saw quite a few of the Toelz boys at the CO Springs Chapt Christmas party. Favorite raffle prize: a rack of Reutberg

Anyone here have pics of the camp where PCT was conducted?

Tolz was a great place. I was on 024, we were in the motor pool above the rigger shed. Myself, D Krupp, J Tremell, A Mullen and JW Waters.. A great group of guys..

Wish I did. One of the huts got burned down by a 10th Group guy after the BN moved to Panzer. The Germans charged for damages.

I was through there this past summer and looked for the turn off. In years past there was a "Ortsuebungsplatz" sign up but it was gone too. Not sure if any of THAT history is left anymore either.

I know a bunch of those guys!! I was on 026 then by the fussball field.

I know where most of them are still except JW.

I have a number of B&W's from the early 80's time frame. I just need to take the time to scan them and post of of interest.

Please do. They would be most appreciated!

We were staying there during WET, and one of the cooks got a BIG lesson in the emersion heater. The Germans got paid for all the people the building had housed, and all that it might have housed for the next 15 years. I knew about this in regards to animals and crops, but never heard it applied to structures.

The stammtisch is currently at the Jagerwirt in Gaissach. unofficial meeting of SFA Chapter 65 is any sat of the month. Official meeting is the 1st Sat at 1300.

Do you mean JR Waters, the medic?

Secretary of the Army
 

I came across this picture of us giving a ski-demo to the Secretary of the Army John L Marsh Jr. who loved to look for excuses to come out to Tolz and Golf or whatever.

This was Jan 89 at the Brauneck, of course.;)
L to R: Chief Spoo, Cpt Anderson, Chief McFarlin, Me (peeking over his shoulder), John L Marsh, Maj Buchmann, Chief Kinney.

Anybody recognize these guys?
 

From a CH-47 jump in January 1980.
Right after the first heavy snowfall of the year.

Attachment 11120

(I don't remember the name of the Jumpmaster).

Attachment 11121

(That's me on the far right).

Attachment 11122

I went back to visit just a couple years ago and took some pictures. The huts are still there, but pretty run down. PM me if you would like me to send them.

drleach

PCT Pictures
 

For sg1987

Here are a few pictures from PCT when I visited a few years back. The camp area is semi-blocked off, but didn't appear to be off limits. Part of the camp looks like a sand and gravel storage area now. The rifle range was still there, but unused and grown over. A few locals were cleaning up the range house to be used as a place for their band to practice. One of them actually remembered an old colleague of mine from back in 1979-1981 at Toelz. Small world.

drleach

Thanks much. Those were great to see.

Seeing the camp like that makes one feel like a relic from a bygone era.:(

I am wondering if they are still there now. I passed by on B13 this summer and there was no signage or anything. I didn't catch the turn off, but it was the first time I had looked for it in a long time.

I did go climbing at Bichl though (known as Heilbrunn to the locals) and walked the Brauneck-Benediktenwand trail. Had a nice Apfelstuedel at the Toelzerhaus too.

Damn I miss that place...

I think the sign was gone in 2005 when I visited. I missed the turnoff a couple times. It was strange to see everything grown over and falling apart, but I think the most disheartening thing was Flint Kaserne turned into a shopping mall. Seems a bit disrespectful.

drleach

It is sad what they have done to the place and I miss those days of walking through history on the way to the teamroom. But I also miss the people and the area that surrounded that history. Iam glad that I got the chance to be stationed there and experience southern Bavaria.

And we miss you guys....

I was at Kloster Reutberg with my g/f last weekend and had a few beers on ya'll. :cool: