Category Archives: Recollections

The Sack Lunches

February 14, 2010 – 5:03 pm

I put my carryon in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned
seat. It was going to be a long flight. ‘I’m glad I have a good book to
read. Perhaps I will get a short nap,’ I thought.
Just before takeoff, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all
the vacant seats, totally [...]

Posted By Isaac Golding Also posted in From the people we serve No Comments

Luneville citizen sends thanks

September 21, 2008 – 10:15 am

It was one of the largest tank battles of WW II, and the 2nd Cavalry Group was caught right in the middle of it. Having liberated the town of Luneville the previous day, Group was preparing to swing north on the heels of an attack by XII Corps, when the 11th Panzer Division smashed into [...]

Posted By David Gettman Also posted in Current News, Historical Archives, World War II 4 Comments

Night Patrol

December 23, 2000 – 8:12 pm

Written by Kevin Checchia
One night on patrol at an East German check point, our six man patrol was at our third stop looking through A/N PVS5′s. The NCOIC said that the East Germans in the guard tower were taking infared pictures of us, that’s why we kept seeing the flashes in PVS5′s. Well, this went [...]

Posted By Isaac Golding Also posted in Historical Archives No Comments

2/2 HOW Fires First Shots In Anger

February 23, 1991 – 5:26 pm

Submitted by: Bob Dobson
When the ground war started I was escorting a reporter from Stars and Stripes and another service. When the time table shifted we were scrambling to capture the first shot fired and located 2 HOW. The platoon we were watching fired its mission and prepared to jump. The Plt Leader, Gene Lanzillo [...]

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