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| Pulaski
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Around the
third week of November 1961, my father,
Lewis D. Whaley, received orders to
go to Kaiserslautern, Germany, as
his Permanent Duty Station with the
596th Signal Support Company.
Following an eight-day voyage across
the Atlantic Ocean from Brooklyn Harbor
in New York City, aboard the General
Simon B. Buckner, Spc.-4 Whaley
and other soldiers spent a night in
Bremerhaven, Germany. The next day,
Whaley boarded a train en-route to
Kaiserslautern.
After arriving at Pulaski Barracks,
Spc.-4 Whaley was assigned to Building
2810. Pulaski Barracks would come
to be Whaley's home for close to two
years. Whaley came back home in September
1963 aboard the same ship that took
him to Germany - the General
Simon B. Buckner.
This photo was taken by the author
in April 1999 during a visit to Pulaski
Barracks and my father's old stomping
grounds. Although I had received security
clearance to enter the military base,
I was stopped at the checkpoint at
the top of the hill and asked for
my passport. I suppose the MPs thought
a young man donning a camouflage jacket
with several Army patches and a bright
orange 97th Signal Battalion T-shirt
and attempting to enter the base with
a video camera was a bit supscious.
However, everyone at the base was
quite accommodating, and the trip
proved to be a very nice and productive
visit.
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