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Santa arrives at Cooke Barracks in a fire truck

Posted by admin on Jul 30, 2015 in Cooke Barracks, Photos | 0 comments

Photo from Bobby Raines  

Santa giving out presents to the brats

Posted by admin on Jul 30, 2015 in Cooke Barracks, Photos | 0 comments

Photo from Bobby Raines  

The Post Chapel on Cooke Barracks

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Photo from Bobby Raines.   Kids trying to catch up to Santa in the fire truck.

Cooke Barracks Main Gate in the Winter

Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2015 in Cooke Barracks, Photos | 0 comments

Live Fire Exercise with a 50 Cal

Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2015 in Iron Curtain, Photos | 0 comments

Photo from Ken Stalker. You have to love a 50 Caliber machine gun.

Roughing it on maneuvers at Grafenwöhr

Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2015 in Iron Curtain, Photos | 0 comments

Photo from Ken Stalker.

Choppers landing at the Cooke Barracks Flugplatz

Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2015 in Flugplatz, Photos | 0 comments

Photo from Ken Stalker. Can't you just imagine Jack McMasters and the other brats watching from up on the cliff when these helicopters land at the Flugplatz.

American warning sign as you approached the Iron Curtain

Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2015 in Iron Curtain, Photos | 0 comments

The Wall and East German Guard Tower

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Photo from Ken Stalker. Here the Iron Curtain is not barbed wire, it is a concrete wall, because this portion of the wall is in a more populated area. Note that the tower still has clear visibility of no-mans-land which in this case is a river.

East German Guard Tower

Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2015 in Iron Curtain, Photos | 0 comments

Photo from Ken Stalker. Up on the Iron Curtain the guard towers were manned 24/7.