Morbach Munitions Depot, Germany

[GunarSailors]

These pictures are for anyone who has ever been stationed at Morbach, Germany. Shown below is the bomb dump before. Then after we removed all of the explosives in 1994-1995, they turned it into a wind farm. Has anyone else here ever been stationed at Morbach?

And for those of you who believe in Werewolves...
http://luckypuppy.net/the-morbach-werewolf/

 

[Roadtrash]

I never even heard of it. I was in Gelnhausen for 3+ years any where close?

 

[LVSteve]

Wonder how many nukes/chemical warheads/Spetsnaz units were targeted on that place.

 

[GunarSailors]

I never even heard of it. I was in Gelnhausen for 3+ years any where close?

You were east of Frankfurt, Morbach was about an hour and a half west of Frankfurt.

 

[bummer]

I never even heard of it. I was in Gelnhausen for 3+ years any where close?

D 1/48 here (83-85). Did you ever get to guard Miesau Army Depot ? Boy was that fun

 

[halvenut]

I was stationed at Baumholder for 30 months. I was there from March of '72 thru August of '74. And yes I've had the privilege of guarding Miesau Depot. We were there numerous times and the one time that I remember the most was right after the '72 Olympics in Munich. There was a lot of terrorist activities going on all over West Germany. I was with C 1/87 Infantry Mech which was part of the 8th ID.

 

[GunarSailors]

Morbach was a really nice assignment especially after Hahn Air Base closed down. It was considered a GSU (Geographically Seperated Unit).

 

[the ringo kid]

I wonder how many of that baader meinhoff gang and others--had been hitler youth in WWII? but who had also refused to quit while ahead....

 

[GunarSailors]

I wonder how many of that baader meninhoff gang and others--had been hitler youth in WWII? but who had also refused to quit while ahead....

Good question.

 

[steveno]

I was at Rhein Main AB from 1970 to 1973. it was interesting times in Germany in the 1970's. the first year on base you got the pleasure of being a junior sky cop. when an alert was called you went over to the sky cop station and they issued you an M-16 and several magazines of ammo and put you on the flight line. the real sky cops kind of left us rookies alone because they were scared of a bunch of rookies with loaded M-16's (probably for good reason). a couple of those alerts were for the Bader-Meinhof gang supposedly coming to crash the main gate. that would have kind of stupid when all they had to do was go through the back walkin gate that lead to Waldorf because there was only one German guard and he was usually asleep.

 

[steveno]

Bader-Meinhof was also in with the Red Army Faction


Red Army Faction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[bummer]

I was at Rhein Main AB from 1970 to 1973. it was interesting times in Germany in the 1970's. the first year on base you got the pleasure of being a junior sky cop. when an alert was called you went over to the sky cop station and they issued you an M-16 and several magazines of ammo and put you on the flight line. the real sky cops kind of left us rookies alone because they were scared of a bunch of rookies with loaded M-16's (probably for good reason). a couple of those alerts were for the Bader-Meinhof gang supposedly coming to crash the main gate. that would have kind of stupid when all they had to do was go through the back walkin gate that lead to Waldorf because there was only one German guard and he was usually asleep.

At least they gave you ammo. When we had guard duty either the ammo was locked in a box or the 1 mag you were issued was taped over with 100mph tape so if you were able to un-tape it the rounds would have stuck in the glue. Man those were good times

 

[halvenut]

When the Bader-Meinhof gang was at it's peak we were walking posts with loaded M-16's. There would be a Battalion on post guard duty at once. Even E-5's were walking posts. IDs required to get into clubs, commisary, px, etc. We also had a small air field for choppers and a missile site that had to be guarded, along with all motor pools, etc. There were a lot of bombings going on by the gang and they had stolen uniforms and passed themselves off as GIs. So the Army tried to tighten security but it proved to be difficult on an open base.

 

[Kinman]

I was over there 71-73, for awhile I drove truck and got to see alot of the country. I must have delivered to every military outfit in West Germany, I had my favorites and some I didn't care for. I was hitch hiking alongside the autobahn while the Munich games were going on, it was amazing to hear that stadium full of people roar when something great happened. The Bader Meinhof game caused us some concern, as our outpost was basically inside a small town and easily attacked by an armed crew, it was pretty stupid to walk guard duty with an unloaded M-16. More than one M-16 had a full magazine.
One of the best gigs I had was called the "Belgium Mail Run", I would start the week by driving my tractor bob-tailed over to Rhein Mein, AFB and picking up a Mail Container. Then I drove into Frankfurt and backed up to a special loading dock where stuff was offloaded and onloaded and an armed guard got on to ride shotgun. From there we booked to the embassy in Bonn, then onto Belgium. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands didn't mind us driving military vehicles in her country as long as we were not wearing a uniform, so at the border we changed into civvies, jeans and a t-shirt and drove on to SHAPE Headquarters, after dropping the trailer we headed to a civilian bed and breakfast which was someone's home and slept the night, the next day went back, picked up the trailer and repeated it in reverse. I would do that for five days, then pull into my base, go over the tractor and be ready to do it all over again Monday morning...it was great duty.
I don't know why but I always resented saluting officers just because they were officers, the guys I respected that deserved a salute was never a problem but just because some guy has bars just never sat well with me, I had a real lazy half salute that got me in trouble with butter bar lt.s all the time, a place like NATO headquarters was a nightmare for a guy like me because some countries like Italy make their corporals look like officers, that was just one of the reasons being in civvies was so cool, just walk on by, cool as the breeze.