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The E-Mail Newsletter for SIS, ASA and INSCOM Veterans who served in Germany or Austria
Volume 3 – Number
2
March 1, 2007
Ralph R, Thadeus, Editor
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Your Editor had an opportunity to talk with his old Scheyern Commanding Officer, Col. QUENTIN L. ZELL, now happily retired in Florida . Would you believe it, I had to leave a message on his telephone recorder because the Col. and his wife were out playing tennis. The colonel had a big part in publishing the history of the 116 th SRIC by giving me his copy of the original book. For those of you new to the group, the history is on our web site in .pdf format.
We get quite a few requests asking if we know of a specific individual. Since our e-mail base is only about 350 names, not always are we able to help the requestor out. For those of you who are not aware of it, an ASAer named Vern Greunke operates a web site best described as the ASA Locator. Vern has about 35,000 names of former ASAers which can be searched by name, date, unit, etc. You will have to register yourself to use the search engine but you will be surprised at what he has accomplished. His web site address is:
http://www.5starpicks.com/asalives/index.html
JIM PETTIT (Scheyern/Kassel 55-57) chimes in about the closing of Scheyern. Jim recalls that a good part of Charlie Trick ended up in Kassel . Jim had less than 6 months to do when Scheyern closed and that there were many guys even shorter who also had to stay until they were down to three weeks before being shipped out. “Hard to believe we were all that indispensable. Maybe guys with family caught a break. As for the promotions, we didn’t see a lot of them. Having 22 months time-in-grade as an E2, there isn’t enough time in a 3 year hitch to get past SP3.”
I’ve had several questions about what the music is on the reunion information page of our web site. It’s a German piece called the bayerische Defiliermarsch which roughly translates into the March of the Bavarian Troops – kind of apropos to our reunion. It is also in honor of a very good German friend who passed away on January 14 th. Alfred Pfefferler was a Pfaffenhofen city councilman (Stadtrat) for over 40 years and a good friend to Eda and me for more years then that. Know to us as “Freddy” (and locally as “Don Alfredo”) he was a gentle and caring man who always looked out for the best interests of the people.
OSCAR LOVELESS, a WW2 veteran of the 116 th Signal Radio Intelligence Company has been attending our reunions since the last one in Florida . Oscar travels by bus to get to our reunion site and this reunion will be no different. So – if Oscar can do it, so can you. Dust off those beer mugs, squeeze into those OD’s, jump into those lederhosen and dirndls, and join your Editor in his full Schützenverein regalia hoisting a Jägermeister or two at our Bavarian Evening.
NEW CONTACTS
Arthur C. Baith, Bad Aibling 60-62. Detachment B, 186 th USASA Company, 320 th ASA Bn.
James A. Luster (CWO-Ret), Rothwesten 69-72. NCOIC German HFDF North Net and 05D Trick Chief. Jim was an E6 at Rothwesten.