South end of Kapaun Barracks, Vogelweh, near Kaiserslautern. Foreground:
Headquarters, 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, as
the sign above the door says. Behind it on the left, the Headquarters Troop
barracks where we lived. To its right, the one-story pink building is the
mess hall. The other buildings are barracks for tankers (F-Troop, L-Troop,
etc) and for the 37th Motor Transportation Group of the 53rd Transportation
Batallion, whose rousing motto was "We Will Provide the Necessary
Transportation" (theirs were the trucks that transported us to the
countryside for maneuvers). The barred windows on the headquarters building
were a leftover from when it was where the film from U2 spy planes was
developed.