Military meeting at Point Alpha

[housil]

Some of you are old enough to grew up during the "cold war" and still remember the "iron curtain". Last weekend was a military camp at a former US observation point called "Point Alpha" where ths US Army was observing towards "east" and peek for the oncoming Russian invasion via the so called "Fulda gap"

Thats the US tower

behind the fence the former east German watch tower

The east German side of the border, that "road" was made for border guard troops only

View from east towards west

the place back in 1973, (west) German border Police guarding the border

An east German one man observation bunker

these were made to watch out for East German citizens trying to flee into the West

We were a party of five vehicles and did a 365km trip that day at 31°C...

and arrived at the camp site

my favorite, a German Bundeswehr "TFK250" field kitchen somebody had set up there

That place
https://www.google.de/maps/place/US-Cam ... &entry=ttu
is now a nice museum you can visit

[MrFahrenheit]

Very interesting Housil, thanks for sharing.

[cavguy]

Nice pics! The last few pics bring back memories of my old barracks & locker.