Once I retired from the Army, I immediately began my second career in Law Enforcement, with the Division of the Capitol Police in Richmond, Virginia, the oldest police department in the United States, dated back to 1618. I spent 4.5 years as I bike patrol police officer.
After 911, Fort Lee, Virginia created civilian police positions and I began there as a Lead Sergeant, until 2004, when I became a Supervisory Police Officer (Watch Commander), until the present time.
It's been a long 43 years with the Federal Government, served in green, now in blue, supporting this country, and still serving our military member.
Description Grafenwoehr is located in beautiful Bavaria, near Nuremberg. The major command is the 7th Army Training Command with the primary mission of training. There are approximately 1000 people assigned as permanent party in Grafenwoehr. In 1998 the 7th Army Training Command (7ATC) initiated a live-fire exercise to train armored task forces and companies at Grafenwoehr Training Area. This is a significant change in land use at GTA, which has traditionally supported only limited off-road maneuvers.
The 90-year-history of the Grafenwoehr Training Area begann under the Royal Bavarian Army and continued with the German Wehrmacht. Many celebrities have visited Grafenwoehr, to include the Bavarian Princes and Elvis Presley, the King of Rock´n´Roll. Some may remember it as Strafenwoehr, a play on words about "Punish-Woehr" because the German word for punishment is the manipulated word of "G-rafen-Woehr" into "S-trafen-Woehr).