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.
Training Exercise - Reforger (Certain Challenge) '88
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September / 1988
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September / 1988
Description Exercise Reforger (from return of forces to Germany) was an annual exercise conducted, during the Cold War, by NATO. The exercise was intended to ensure that NATO had the ability to quickly deploy forces to West Germany in the event of a conflict with the Warsaw Pact.
The Reforger exercise itself was first conceived in 1967. The Johnson administration announced plans to withdraw approximately two divisions from Europe during 1968. As a demonstration of its continuing commitment to the defense of NATO and to illustrate its capability of rapid reinforcement, a large scale force deployment was planned that would deploy a division or more to West Germany in a regular annual exercise. The first such exercise was conducted beginning on 6 January 1969. These exercises continued annually past the end of the Cold War, except for the year 1989, until 1993.
Major units: (Germany based units) USAREUR (U.S. Army Europe): 3rd Infantry Division (Mech), Würzburg; 8th Infantry Division, Bad Kreuznach; 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Nuremberg; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fulda; 3rd Armored Division, Frankfurt-am-Main; Berlin Brigade, Berlin. (U.S. based units): 1st Infantry Division (Mech); 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment; ; 197th Infantry Brigade; 45th Infantry Brigade, 1-179th Infantry (OK-ARNG, Oklahoma Army National Guard).