Lindsey Air Station Wiesbaden Germany 2024

Lindsey Air Station Wiesbaden Germany 2024

well welcome to lindsy air station 2024 last time I was here well I was stationed here in uh what 1973 through 7 6 it was the best time I swear Lindsay Air Station was the best assignment you could get so I was in the second mobile Communications Group here at Lindsay and uh we had our own shop our own hanger later on toward the end for the last um I don’t know few months I left the shop and decided it would be uh it would be fun to create training material for the second mob so I did that out of building a24 which is right over there now this plant with a smoke stack on it a chimney that was still here in uh when I was here that was the power plant and I could come out in a small coal burning on the winter days now this is where I would park my car I briefly had a Mercedes that I would park here and in the distance that building right there that’s where I lived today it’s a uh apartment building beautiful apartment building but uh that was my home for many many years here at Lindsay we’ll walk on the back and see if the entrance is still where I remember it to be let’s take a look and where that building is right there that used to be the post office that’s where you could go and you had your PSC box and pick up your your mail from home it’s a apartment building now all right let’s take a look at the entrance here so every every day around this corner yeah I think it’s all now yeah it’s locked yeah but the banister looks pretty much the same looks like it’s been modernized but yeah pretty cool 40 years ago Lindsay air station is gone not forgotten the ghosts of it are still here you know perhaps one of the most memorable um streets stza here at Lindsay air station is George Marshall stza everybody will remember this how many times have I walk down this on the right I think that used to be the bowling alley then oddly I have a recollection that they moved the bowling alley upstairs I don’t know maybe some of you guys will remember but I’d walk down here right around this time of the day which is uh close to 6:00 and in the distance I could hear the national Anthem playing on speakers that I swear they uh borrowed the speakers from Mash those tiny horrible sounding speakers you know or uh uh I forgot where the hell they got but metal speakers and they be playing Taps and lowering the [Music] colors right over there and I’d never wanted to get stuck outside having to salute in the direction of the distorted horrible sounding national anthem so I would Dart into the bookstore the book store was right there spent many hours buying browsing and sometimes buying some books but of course my main purpose was to come down here and go to the little BX so this was the Lindsay BX right where that door is there and you could buy cigarettes I’d come in and buy a pack of marble for 25 cents a pack 10 cents I mean $10 for a carton was a bargain lots of other things they sold in there uh at the BX as well George Marshall stazza I know lots of people will remember this street and bring back fantastic memories so I wish I could remember which building it was if it was any of these but I was looking for the NCO Club you’d walk up the steps and uh there was a bar that’s where we would spend time having a beer after work downstairs from the NC Club you’d walk down these steps and underneath was a place called the cave and the cave was a it was mostly Soul music and a lot of ethnic uh you know lindsy Air Station members having a good time down there I visited the cave a couple of times but I do remember the NCO Club that building may not be here anymore pretty hard to tell hello Lindsay air stationers so everybody knows what this place is you know I never figured out exactly what the Amelia airart is I I got the sense it’s a it was it’s a private privately owned at least by the by the US government um never really sure I know I could get a a um membership to the lounge and they had uh cool parties down there but most importantly right across the street Walter’s imbus I bet you everybody at Lindsay had at least one brers from Walters so here we are at the pill so this was my drinking spot and a lot of us at the second mob would come down here at the pill and hang out on Friday night Saturday night till closing till 2: in the morning or whatever get pretty Saed try to find women usually not very successful um but this is the spot where we would hang out at the pill let’s take a walk down Dwight D Eisenhower d some of you uh some of you Lindsay alumni may recall some of these places and I forget exactly who was stationed over here who was what department were here with groups were here exactly in this part of Lindsay Air Station I think the hobby shop was here so I’m not sure where but I am going to guess it may have been here maybe somebody will remember you know give me some comments but I did some work for Armed Forces Radio afrts s uh I recorded some commercials for uh broadcast and later I was able to uh get reassigned to afrts although I ended up declining the assignment and separating from the Air Force but uh I think afrts was probably in that building appropriately labeled VHS I suppose um but all of the good modern I should say the uh the older structures you know are the same still here unchanged from when I was stationed here but it’s uh now pretty crowded with modern apartment buildings e for

Lindsey Air Station (1945–1993) was my home for more than three years. Thousands of people served or were dependents on or around Lindsey.