Went back to RVN in 2015, and was reminded how beautiful the country is! Hanoi was fascinating, as was the thriving capitalism in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese are gracious, and bear no apparent ill-will towards Americans. It was a fantastic trip, and I highly recommend it to RVN vets!
Grafenwoehr Training Area (GTA)
From Month/Year
September / 1945
To Month/Year
December / 2019
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).
