Amos Family Blog: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Jeff's Change of Command

Last Friday Jeff took command of Bravo Company, 412th Aviation Support BN. It was a nice ceromony - though my camera died we still managed to get some photos.

Wolfgang striking a pre-ceromony pose.

The traditional passing of the guidon.

Wolfgang had to take a photo of the flags...

A rare Amos family photo.

Cake #1 with the aviation insignia on it.

Cake #2 with the BN crest on it.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Jeff picked up his new Harley-Davidson Bike last week. For those of us (mainly me:) that are not Harley savvy, it is a Harley Fat Boy. The color is a very pretty Flame Blue Pearl. He had to go to a Harley dealer in Ludwigshafen, Germany to pick it up. We thought it would not be delivered until much later this year but better early than late! However, he cannot ride it until he takes the Army's Bike safety course in the spring...again.

My photos do not do the bike justice.

Here is the new and the old, his poor old bike (in the background) was severely damaged in the move. That is NOT the Harley leaking...it was from Jeff's old bike :).

Front Shot.

Jeff was thrilled (as you can see) of me taking photos of him when it was all of about 7 degrees outside.

I think he looks pretty darn good on it!

Monday, January 5, 2009

Walking into the Past

Most of you know that Jeff is a pretty big history buff - so he has been researching old WWII sites to see if anything is left to go explore. This site we came across is just right down the road from our post Katterbach (where we are stationed). Katterbach started life as a Nazi Airfield - the attacks on Poland were flown out of here. So the following photos are of a site that was used to zero in the guns mounted on the aircraft. They built up these big berms with a huge slab of concrete at the end and shot between berms into the concrete.

This was a hole at the end of the berm right before the concrete slab - Jeff thinks it was were they could go under there and a hole in the roof allowed a target to be raised up to site the gun in on.

Another shot of the targeting hole.

Liv & Wolf desending into the hole.

The hole - filled with water and ucky stuff. You can see the hole in the top.

This is taken from the top of the berm. They are looking at the hole that the targets were raised out of.

This photo you can see what remains of the long berms.

Sophie standing on top of a berm.

Livvy probing for something. The kids liken it to a treasure hunt and Liv thought there had to be buried treasure! It is a really cool way to teach the kids history - they ask some interesting questions for sure! Totally beats a museum :)

This the mound at the end of the berm - that dark line you see is actually a huge slab of concrete.

This pile of concrete that was probably a inclosure of some kind, long ago collapsed - it was beside the berms. Not sure was it was, but by the thickness of the concrete is was pretty substantial.

You could get under the collasped concrete. - filled with water and more ucky stuff.

This is the hole on the other side of the collapsed structure.

The back of the collapsed stucture.

Another shot of the back.

Take a photo of me mom!

This was the geocache that was there. Livvy thought this was the coolest thing in the world and can't wait to find more!

This tree was growing out of the side of the collasped inclosure. That flat area behind Livvy was a huge piece of collapsed concrete - most likely the roof.