Clay Kaserne (Wiesbaden Army Airfield) (Wiesbaden)

Comments

• 
  Patrick Dailey (guest)

  Was stationed at Wiesbaden AFB 3yrs. 1964-68 with Hdqs. 2nd Weather Wing. A great time in my life, better friends, wouldn't change the time for anything.

  12 years ago | reply | hide comment
• 
  DaveBeedon

  In early 1973 I arrived at Wiesbaden Air Base in an Army Huey helicopter that had flown me there from Pirmasens. I got stationed at Camp Pieri and while there visited the WAB Recreation Center to attend bicycle information meetings. I finished my Army duty in Frankfurt, then worked for five years as a civilian at the motor pool at WAB. I drove school buses during the week and on some weekends I drove the shuttle bus that ran between WAB and Lindsey Air Station. Up until June 1976 the motor pool was an Air Force facility. Then it became an Army facility as part of a major defense re-organization which caused the Air Force to move to Ramstein. During my employment, the motor pool was the paved area along the eastern edge of WAB, immediately southeast of the large building labeled "Wiesbaden DFAC" (dining facility). In the 1970s, there was no parking garage there: it was all one big parking lot filled mostly with buses. The dining facility building had earlier been a warehouse. During the Arab oil embargo of 1973-4, the German government, in an effort to save gasoline, restricted who could drive. Buses were not subject to the restriction. I can remember driving from Hainerberg toward the Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof on a street devoid of cars and trucks. It was a bizarre sight. Nice work and nice memories.

  10 years ago | reply | hide comment