After returning from TDY to Ft. Lee, I languished for months while the Army got around to giving me new orders affecting my remaining 8 months in active duty. Finally in mid September I received orders to report to Germany to serve my last 6 months of service. After returning home to Inkster, Michigan to enjoy a 15 day leave, I reported to Ft. Dix, New Jersey, being driven there by my sister, Lynn, and her friend, Bob Wisnewski from his home in Moristown, NJ. Changing from my civvies to my uniform in the parking lot at night, I bid them farewell and began my processing for a European tour. Stationed in Hanau Casern (Pioneer Kaserne), Germany, about 15 kilometers east of Frankfurt, I worked in A Company, 503d Supply & Transport Battalion, 3d Armored Division (Spearhead). My job was delivering rations to mess halls at bases in the larger Frankfurt area, including Friedburg, Gelnhausen, and Budingen, consisting of loading up long bed trailers and riding in the back, and pushing rations ot to mess sergeants. This was during the coldest winter recorded in Germany to that time. (Spelling correction: Inster corrected to read Inkster.)
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS. U. S. ARMY QUARTERMASTER CENTER AND FORT LEE Fort Lee, Virginia 23801 SPECIAL ORDERS 19 September 1973 NUMBER 189 EXTRACT 19. TO 202. Following reassignment directed. Individual will proceed on PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION as indicated. SCHNEIDER, JOHN J xxx-xx-xxxx PV2 76X20 Co P (Stu Enl) 2d En USA QM Sch Bde/Trp Comd (WlD51Q X) Fort Lee VA 23801 ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNTING DATA Auth: FONECON DA MILPERCEN (Mr Rice) & Enl Pers Mgt Unit Stu Sec (Mrs Butler) this HQ 17 Sep 73 Aloc: NA OPO C&L No: EHA 6839 Lv adrs: 1387 Colonial Inkster MI 48141 Mo os (curr tour): NA PCS MDC: 4CE4 PCCN: NA CIC: 241A03 Ultimate asg: NA FOR THE INDIVIDUAL Assigned to: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment 21st Adjutant General Replace- ment Battalion (WA5HC1 A) Army Post Office New York New York 09757 Reporting date: To be established upon receipt of port call Leave data: 15 days delay enroute authorized chargeable as leave Availability date: 4 October 1973 Port call data: To be established upon receipt of port call Special Instructions: (a) Comply with the following numbered items of DA Supple -mental Instructions (Appendix B, AR 310-10): 14,27,39,40,58,6,),62,64,65,84,85. (b) Port call reporting, hour and date must be complied with. Failure to do so may result in punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If you do not receive a port call at least 10 days prior to your avail -ability date directing you to report to a transportation area you are directed to request the status of your port call from your home station. Report to the nearest USA installation and arrange to call the home station commander over the Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) 687-5315. Collect commercial calls are authorized only when AUTOVON is not accessible. The telephone number at this station is 1-804-734-5315 central Port Call Office. Telephone the above number if an emergency occurs while on leave that will make it necessary to readjust the port call date. Unit commander will comply fully with AR 612-2. Individual will report to Unit Personnel Section one (1) day prior to will proceed date. You are required to report to the family housing/housing referral office servicing your new duty station before you make