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Aco 6BN 502nd INF "WILD BUNCH"

These are the photo chronicals of my adventures in the City of Berlin as a Member of the Elite Berlin Brigade.  Within the 6th Batallion of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, stood an humble Company of Infantrymen, Alpha Company,  Cold Steel Alpha.  Among the elite of her confines were the few, the proud, the WILD.  If you have "drunk from the boot" then you know what I mean, and you are a brother, a member of the Wild Bunch.

The Mann Fitness Center and Imbiß Stand at the Front Gate, 1991

The Mann Fitness Center and Imbiß Stand
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Front Door to Alpha Company 6 BN 502nd INF

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The Building across from the front gate on Teltower Damm, let me know I was "home"

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The Training Tower, PV2 Dixon in action!

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                                                                                                                 SPC Whittington

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SPC Melvin Whittington, and SPC Jackie Morris, in Mine and Morris' Barracks room, 209!

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The Hardest Working S-1 in the Infantry, SPC Graham

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The Mad Mortar Man, SPC Kevin "Bull" Bengtson

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SPC McKlusky, Veteran of Panama Action "Just Cause" with the 82nd Airborne Division

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The "Insane Irish", SGT Rich Evans(also a Panama Veteran) and SPC Billy Boyden

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CQ Duty (Charge of Quarters) with Corporal Forgette and SPC Tucker.  Notice the smoke cloud and the ashtray!  These were the "good old days" when you were still free to smoke in public areas!

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SPC Mayle, "Hillbilly" on the Company payphone

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SPC Klein and SPC Rangel

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SPC Geoff Miotke, Doing what he did best..

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The Metal Crew of the Wild Bunch, about to assault the "Ecstacy Madhouse" in Schöneberg, Berlin for a live concert,  Wrathchild America and GWAR!

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Wild Bunch Board Game!

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PFC Haake, SPC McKluskey, and SPC Rangel, Doing what Wild Bunch Do!

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SPC Mitoke, PFC Butkovich, and SPC Tucker

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SGT Polonia, SPC Hayden, SSG "Chill" Williams and behind the Bar, SPC Tommy Tucker, featuring "Tommy's Half-Assed Bar".  This was Rick "Big Daddy" Hayden's ETS Party in 1991.

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My "Mohawk Experience", Thanks to Bull Bengtson.  It only lasted about 30 minutes, as it is totally out of Regulation!

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The Aftermath!  Boy, did Sarge love that haircut!

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Berlinerin Beauties, Franziska and Melanie at Berlin Freie Universität, 1991

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Lovely Melanie 1992

New Years Eve 1992

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The Lovely Dana Florin, Fellow Aerobics Instructor with Melanie, 1992

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Old Murial from the McNair Barracks Clock Tower, there since the 6th Infantry had the Watch.  This bridges the Old Days from the Present Day on this page!

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McNair Barracks, Berlin.  "Area 8", Our Alpha Company Barracks, shot from atop the Clock Tower, Summer 2000.

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The Old Rod and Gun Club, McNair Barracks, across from Alpha Co. Barracks.  Summer 2000.  Currently the Berlin Brigade Museum, run by Ray Dutt and other former GS Employees.

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German American Folks Fest 2000, held on former Truman Plaza.  Ran into SSG (retired) Keller there!  I got in with my Active Duty Military ID!  Got free event and drink tickets too!

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Franciska and Melanie, Chritmas 2000

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Air Force Staff Sergeant Nancy Forgette, Army Sergeant Haake, and Melanie, Chistmas 2000

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Annette, Me, Mathias, and Carola.  Buddies from the Old Days, Christmas 2000.

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Potsdammer Platz, Christmas 2000.  This Shopping mall sits in what was the empty "kill zone" of the former wall dividing East from West Berlin.  Funny how time changes things!

Wild Bunch Reunion 2003
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Wild Bunch 2003
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Wild Bunch 2003
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