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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elsewhere who wrote (97039)5/1/2003 7:48:31 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
JJ,
It was an educated guess as
I had received notification last week that all the AFRC (Armed Forces Recreation Areas) in Germany except for the General Patton Hotel in Bertchesgaden are closing this year.

I just read this on LB's new thread to confirm my thought. But I agree with you in part, we may not pullout completely. Germany will, however, no longer be considered a great tour if the troops are all going to Graf. And if we no longer have a tank division or a huge Cav unit guarding the Fulda Gap, we will not need a tank training area.

I think we will see this play out fairly quickly. Do not be surprised if plans change and that $600 million and the US Troops go elsewhere.
uw

LA Times report today.
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May 1, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Fueled by resentment over the opposition of "Old Europe" to the war in Iraq, the Pentagon is accelerating plans to move tens of thousands of U.S. troops out of Germany and to establish new bases in the former East Bloc countries of Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.

The first concrete evidence of the shift is the movement of the Army's 17,000-strong 1st Armored Division, which deployed to Iraq mostly from bases in Germany but will not return there, senior military officials said.
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