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I was stationed there from 80 to 83 I was in the 601st TCS as a weapons tech,my pardon if I get some thing wrong as my age is starting to creep up on me .The forest around the base was lovely but could be dangourous as the area was mined beyond belive during the war part of our new peeps briefing is stay on the paths as they never found all the mines heard one go off once as a reference the Ballle of the Bulge started in this area .the two elevated ramps in the video was for the 612th Taciatal control flight one for the radar and other for there radar van. the base gyn ,BX ,base gym, dinning hall bowling alley and theater along with the admin buildings and our building are all torn down,our radar and equipment were on a large open area all of our stuff was generally along the fence line parreling the road off base.I lived on base for about six months before I was allowed to live off base in a local village Swarzsheim ? when you went into that first room on the left on 3rd floor you was in the spot I called home the time I lived on site seeing that was a shock pure and simple .oh and the weather that was the norm for there ,summer it was just foggy and misty lol.we use to have a joke thing if the sun peeked out we pulled out the sun chit cards (our AF ID ) pointed at the sun to record our qutoa of sunshine guess one had to be there ,smiles .Thank you for the video it was disstressing to see the shape the place it was in but alas we did our duty as the base did its .
I was stationed as an MP in the 558th from November 1984 until October 1986. I was SGT David Black at that time and I ultimately stayed in the US Army until I retired as a 1SG/E-8 with the US Army CID as a Special Agent. Sitting in those towers back then pulling physical security was tough on your mind as boredom set in quickly staring at the fence line day/night and watching the grass grow. We rotated from the 'Ready Room' to towers during the 24+ hour shift. Four hours in the tower then 2 hours twice again during the 24 hour period. You were off after that for 24 hours then back up there again for another 24 hours. Did this for one week and then you were off doing other stuff for one week until your next week kicked in again. I always called us MP's as "Multi Purpose" instead of Military Police. That was my second Physical Security site in 5 years. I went to college at night to switch to Army Criminal Investigator just to NOT go to physical security ever again. It worked!
Prinz eugen should be raised bismarck protected her to live and she honoured her country and tanking 2 nukes and surviving with minor damage and with a small leak which the Americans didn’t think to seal so it grew bigger and sank the ship she is in such great condition her turrets and torpedos look like they where just rusted a bit with some coral but it looks like it did in ww2 sad to see her rotting away when she can be saved
What's crazy is it sank some 130 years ago and everyone is panicking over Climate Change and oceans rising... that should be under at least 30ft of water... or is Higgins Beach have a 30ft high tide?
Sad to say the loud music track made this video pretty worthless in the beginning. I was TDY there in 1968 with the 4713 DSES from Stewart AFB, NY for 45 days. We flew EB-57 B Canberra, twin engine bombers, converted to Electronic Warfare Intruder aircraft. Two additional 90-day TDY's at Ramstein AFB between 1967 and 1969. Loved Germany. I have been going back almost every year since 2003 for Oktoberfest in Munich, Christkindlemarkts, 2014, D-Day anniversary tour Belgium, France and Austria(Eagle's Nest). My son worked at Ramstein from 1999-2015 and lived in Kaiserslautern.
Did you see the video about the abandoned base at Prum that we made? You’d find it worthless too. It’s nice to see so many veterans share their stories. In the future I’ll bet this video’s comment section will be valuable to researchers because they can learn who was stationed here and read some of their experiences.
I was In the Air Force stationed there from June '80 to June '82. I worked in the print shop in the 17th Air Force building on the Admin. side. Had a good time there.
I was there 86-88 as a member of the 601st TCS, radar ops. A beautiful area of the Schnee Eifel region. That fog is very common that time of year. The day I left in Jan 88 looked exactly like that!
i was at the immediately adjacent small army signal corps outpost 4 a few months in early 1969 b4 transferring to armed forces radio hq studios in frankfurt as a board op/announcer/dj. the prum site was primarily an army/air force site posturing as a nato deterrent to ww3. if needed, the army had a small fleet of mobile, secure crypto communication teletype outfitted tractor trailers to be deployed if/when needed during wartime. which was never, thankfully. all we did was send hourly test messages 24/7 using the neighboring air force microwave tower to transmit/receive. occasionally we started the trucks (tractors) to ensure the engines still ran.
Hi from Brazil! when new videos? I love WWII content! I dream of one day being able to go to historic places. Do you have plans for an adventure in WWII places??
First off, The United States Army never had nuclear munitions on its bases. Only the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy handles nuclear munitions. If it is like a similar large type of base I went to in South Korea, then that is a conventional munitions base for that region of Germany.
My father was stationed there from 74 to 76. We lived in housing down the road. Went to Bitburg HS then joined the AF myself. Great memories there. Prum Post also had great facitlites for dependents, movie theater, bowling alley, arts and craft, ect. Great memories. Thank you
Stationed there Nov. 69- May 72 with 2nd Mobile Communications Group.( Radio Operator) Have great memories of my time there, Seeing this is depressing!
The loopholes at the front of the tank, are anchor points for tow cable. If you dig around further on other military history channels, there are, at least, 2 channels highlighting the battle history of KT 213. Checkout Mark Felton could be one channel...
Yay!! Northpoint!! My platoon Sgt ran that bowling alley. SFC Elliott, he used to tell us to go find something to do. Me and a guy nickname JJ. Larry Johnson would take a jeep to the hill, and drive up and over the hills back there. Roll the jeep, jump out, roll it back over then do it again. Our plt was 2nd S&I i lived in the female barracks till I moved off base to Marnheim. I was an Ammunition Specialist/ Stock Records. And drove trucks
Thank you for this. It brings back so many great memories. So, my dad was stationed here from 1975 - 1978. We lived in housing off base but we spent a lot of time on base. I plan to take my family here in a couple of years. Your tour was pretty spot on with how I remembered things. What I didn’t see was the old movie theater building. My dad would run the movies there in the evening and on weekends when not out on TDY. There was a baseball field on another end of base. This would also be a great cookout spot too. Wow , I could go on and on. Thank you very much.
Yes I know who spray painted RIVERA on the wall. It was me, but I didn't painted Mae, that was my buddy. I was station at North Point from 1986 to 1989, I was with 619th Ordnance Company. My job was to clean those bunkers and maintained them. We had to cut the grass on top of the bunkers, we had to tie ropes to the lawnmowers because it was too steep to cut. The barrack next to the mess with stairs leading to it was where I lived. My room was on the third floor at the corner end of the building. Lots of fond memories and good friends. I can't believe the way the base looks now, so sad. You guys did a good job. By the way, I did't get in trouble for it.
Prum Air Station was my home squadron of the 601st TCS. I was 304x0 Wideband Communications / Radio Relay -1982-84. However, I was part of the 601st TCS (OLA) Operation Location Alpha. We were a detached group on Ebeskopf mountain operating tactical microwave communication links between Prum AS, Sembach AB and Wiesbaden AB. Our quarters were at the deactivated Army Hospital complex at Neubrucke (now a college campus), near Birkenfeld along with other Air Force and Army personnel who worked at the 'bunker' at Borfink. I have lots of fond memories of my time in Germany. Your video really takes me back!
