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2005-04-13 Home Front: WoT

US Army announces German redeployment plans

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Posted by seafarious 2005-04-13 10:58:47 PM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LLL - You wanted a withdrawal strategy, here's a withdrawal strategy! Oh, you meant Iraq?

Posted by Spot 2005-04-13 8:30:53 AM|| 2005-04-13 8:30:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ought to bring them all home, they don't serve any purpose but to stimulate the local economy over there.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-04-13 8:32:13 AM|| 2005-04-13 8:32:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bout damn time,but five to ten years seems like an inordinate amount of time.

Posted by raptor 2005-04-13 9:12:31 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:12:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 slashing troop strength by some 38,000 forces

Damn, that's a lot of beer not being sold. Too bad, so sad.

Posted by BH 2005-04-13 10:05:09 AM|| 2005-04-13 10:05:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Redesigning EUCOM. Right now EUCOM's area of responsibility includes: 35% of Earth's landmass, 50 million sq km of land; 60% of planet's coastline; 20% of the Earth's waters; 1.4 billion inhabitants, which is 23% of world population. The twist to this is that there is a new, IRAQ Command, of equal rank, that will probably carve a big chunk out of EUCOM and CENTCOM in the future. But as of yet, no announcement has been made as to what the new AORs will be.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-13 12:06:00 PM|| 2005-04-13 12:06:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is just the next tranch of a downsizing that has been going on since the early '90s. Who now remembers Abrams Airforce Base, in whose bookstore, restaurants, and Christmas Market I once spent so much money? Not to mention all the pubs in the Sachsenhausen section of Frankfurt, which had to learn to live on the spending of au pairs and university students, after all the Ami soldiers left.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-13 1:05:48 PM|| 2005-04-13 1:05:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It is all for the better. They don't need us there and we have more pressing needs they can not or will not meet. The cross-cultural exchange alone was important back in the 1950's when my Dad was stationed in Neu Ulm but things are quite different now. Bye bye I say and make it quicker.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-13 1:16:21 PM|| 2005-04-13 1:16:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Too little too late. How many people work at Ramstein? That's the ceiling.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-13 1:24:49 PM|| 2005-04-13 1:24:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Anyone have some pictures of the ~~KGB-financed~~ peace protestors from the 80s? The "US out of Germany" ones? One of those banners would work well right here.

Posted by Jackal 2005-04-13 2:00:28 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-04-13 2:00:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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