OhWhale

Hey buddy ​

 

What's up Chad!? How's the ATX treating you?

 

It's going good, todays pretty nasty and my field crews arent going out. Gives me a minute to play catch up in the office.

 

I feel you man it's pretty bad up here too. Y'all making a HF run this weekend?

 

Yep

 

Damn, I went to Barnwell this last weekend and we've got a cruise coming up so I probably won't make it out. Wish I could though I've got the wheelin fever pretty bad lately

 

Nice! Were you stationed in Texas? Jw, fort hood sucks!

 

I was not, but definitely did a little training down there. I was stationed in Ft. Campbell! Were you Cav?

 

I was stationed at Fort Hood for six years. Just got out last February.

 

Good to see someone else made it out.. lol

Nice! And yeah, Garry Owen. C-Co 2-7CAV 3ABCT 1CD (I was a tanker)

 

A Co., 2-8CAV, 1ABCT, 1CD and A Co., 1-9CAV, 2ABCT, 1CD infantry, all Bradley crew.

I was also stationed in Germany for the 5.5 years prior to that.

B Co., 1-26INF, 4BCT, 1ID and sane unit, but re-flagged to B Co., 2-28INF, 172nd INF BDE(Sep)

 

Good stuff, I did a few field weeks in Hood with a couple Abrams crews doing route clearance ops. Y'all were some full hooah dudes. Lots of space out there to practice demo too. Not much to do in Killeen though haha

 

Were you a fan of the beer? I know some guys that came back from Germany literally unable to drink domestic beer again

 

I can barely drink canned American beer (major brands). A lot of them almost make me gag with their aftertaste or I drink them in large amounts because they have no flavor.

Micro brews are fine, though. German creak beer in plastic bottles is as good as some craft beers in the states though. My favorite was a beer from Kreuzberg Klöster (monastery). You could only get the beer there and you had to hike up a small mountain. You could only purchase it in 1L mugs, 2L and 4L ceramic jugs.

 

Climb a mountain for beer.... anybody ever fall off the mountain on the way down?

 

No lol. It's very manicured with nicely paved (cobblestone) paths. Sadly, the monks are in back areas so they're not disturbed by visitors/pilgrims. Civilian contractors are managed by the monks in beer production, gift shop and the restaurant (which only serves hundreds-of-years-old traditional Bavarian dishes).

 

Sounds like a good time man I'm jealous. Germany is on the bucket list for the wife and I. If we go, same rules apply as they do here where I can get on base yeah?

 

Dam I want a beer now