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Havel, Vaclav, SFC.
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With great regret, the Bad Toelz Chapter of the Special Forces Association announced the passing of SFC(Ret) Vaclav Havel. He passed on 10 June 2014 from injuries he sustained from a fall while working on a ladder at his home in Bad Toelz.
Havel is best known to many as the artist behind the pen and ink drawing entitled "The Meeting" of a meeting of the resistance and SF Soldiers. (Havel is in this picture sitting to the left of Hoopy Qualls on the left side on the table in civilian clothing with a goatee.)
Havel was from Czechoslovakia and entered the U.S. Army under the Lodge Act. He served both in 10th SFG in Germany and 5th SFGH in Vietnam. Havel remained in Bad Toelz after retirement and ran the MOS Library in the early 1980s. Laster he taught German and Czech languages to the Soldiers of 1/10 as part of the unit language program in the 1990s.
His funeral services will most likely take place in Munich at the Perlacher Forst cemetery. The date has not been announced.
He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him.
Other Comments:
Served on ODA-6 as Operations and Intelligence Sergeant in 70-71 at Bad Toelz. :German and French Jump wings, French awards of both Skier and Alpinist Militaire from the school at Bareges and Turkish Commando badge earned while attending and advising the Turkish Commando School at Egredeer, Turkey.
MOS 11F10-Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist
Base, Fort or City Berlin
State/Country Germany, West
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Detachment A, Berlin Brigade Details
In April 1958, the unit found its final home in Building 904, Section 2, at Andrews Barracks, West Berlin, and was assigned to HHC, US Army Garrison Berlin with a new name - "Detachment A" (Det A).
In April 1962, "Detachment A" was separated from the Garrison and became "Detachment A", Berlin Brigade, US ARMY Europe (USAREUR), which it remained until its deactivation on 30 December 1984.
