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To: FJB who wrote (229522)	11/27/2007 7:46:44 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 794283

All my friends in the Army felt very welcome in Germany. Concur! Germans loved American GIs so long as the Soviet army was knocking at their door. I arrived on duty there the first time in early November 63. At that time there were six 10-man "A" Teams in Berlin in reasonable cover but not what I would call deep cover. That changed to black later. I was one of the 2 demolition and explosive experts on one of the teams. I absolutely luved the assignment. I'd luv to write a book about those jobs - covert and not; authorized and not. Had just spent the previous year in the 5th Special Forces Group. I left Berlin and went to the 3rd SFG which was gearing up for Africa at the time; then back to the 5th again later; and back to Berlin again after that as a team leader. Then had another 3 1/2 year overseas assignment making nearly 11 years total overseas. Berlin most impressed me after JFK was shot, which was a few weeks after I first arrived. They shut the entire city down for 30 days of mourning. I have never seen anything like it before or since. It was definitely the city of a million spies.