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Are any other members former army cooks or current army cooks in the ACR?Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Richard Spell Dec 1, 2011.

What unit(s) did you serve in with the 2d Cavalry?: D Company, 1/2 ACR at Bindlach. I was at Camp Gates from about December 1978 to January 1980. I was a SP/4 running the messhall after SSGT Betancourt went PCS to the world.

Where were you stationed?: Bindlach Germany for 1 year, with a 30 day at Camp Gates, then permanent party at Camp Gates from about December 1978 to January 1980.

What MOS or job description did you have?: 94B. I cooked for about 70 of my very closest friends! I had the key to the room at Heinz's Gasthof in Brand for that year. For free! I wonder who has the key now?

Tell us a little about your cav days.: As a cook I had the opportunity to be dragged while steering my duece and a half by a bridge tank to get through a giant field of mud while on maneuvers. The border was a terrific place for a 22 year old single guy to be permanent party. We went down town every night but the rotating tankers had to have a pass. I was totally the opposite of what it was like on a large post. No hostility toward GI's on the Czech border.

Name a few buddies you served with that you would like to find.: Kenny Floyd, Russell Dadd, David Dubbs, and his roommate Louie, and a guy we called Chief at Camp Gates.

At 10:31pm on December 2, 2011, STEPHEN P. ZURENDA JR said…: Robert. I do believe that I was with the AVLB towing you. I remember SSG Betancourt. The AVLB section would be parked near the kitchen truck in the field. One time I remember SSG B telling me that he had to get replenishments but his truck was not working. I told him that we could go get it with my AVLB, at first he thought I was joking. When I told him that I was not joking he got a big grin. We had the bridge off so there was plenty of space to load the boxes. He was a funny sight wearing his cook whites and a CVC helmet sitting in the TC seat. The look on the guys that were handing out the food was priceless when we pulled up and out popped SSG B with that big grin.

I liked the food at Camp Gates. There was a cook with blond hair that was with me on patrol along the Grenze and we picked some musrooms. I do not remember his name or exactly when it was, but in the fall.

At 1:01pm on November 29, 2011, Steve McKee said…: Hey Robert,

I picked up the tabs today. Are you still interested?

At 4:43pm on November 12, 2011, Daniel J. Wroten said…: Hello Robert, welcome back to the "Rock" I was there in the 60s, I am close to you in Dunedin,