Alpha Company 1/39 Infantry, Baumholder, 1987
In early 1987, the CO of A Co 1/39 Inf was Captain Shawn P. Fox. Apart from the standard mech role, the company also had an airmobile mission which meant racing around Germany at low altitude in Blackhawks. I doubt that anyone ever loved being a company commander more than Captain Fox. He later transferred from Baumholder to Bad Kreuznach and took on a staff job with the 8th ID headquarters.
The subsequent CO of A Co 1/39 Inf was Captain Perry, who ended up breaking his leg fairly quickly and then spent what must have been the most miserable peacetime winter ever known to mankind dragging around a muddy, snow-crusted cast as it slowly disintegrated around his foot. For some reason I remember him in a jeep with his copy of Dana's autobiography "Two Years Before The Mast". In due time -- a CO only got about twelve months of command -- Captain Perry himself moved down to Grafenwoehr with what I remember to be the 7th ATC. As I think of it, he had originally come to us from the 3rd Infantry (The Old Guard) in Washington DC.
The XO was 1LT Steve Corn, who left (as I recall) in 1988. I believe he went back to either southern Missouri or Kansas, working in the private sector. He was the only guy I've ever met who had worked in a nuclear power plant, so he naturally comes to mind whenever I watch Homer Simpson getting ready to atomize Springfield . . . .
I haven't spoken to any of these three since 1989.
Gentlemen, where has this long trail led you thus far?
AAAO
The subsequent CO of A Co 1/39 Inf was Captain Perry, who ended up breaking his leg fairly quickly and then spent what must have been the most miserable peacetime winter ever known to mankind dragging around a muddy, snow-crusted cast as it slowly disintegrated around his foot. For some reason I remember him in a jeep with his copy of Dana's autobiography "Two Years Before The Mast". In due time -- a CO only got about twelve months of command -- Captain Perry himself moved down to Grafenwoehr with what I remember to be the 7th ATC. As I think of it, he had originally come to us from the 3rd Infantry (The Old Guard) in Washington DC.
The XO was 1LT Steve Corn, who left (as I recall) in 1988. I believe he went back to either southern Missouri or Kansas, working in the private sector. He was the only guy I've ever met who had worked in a nuclear power plant, so he naturally comes to mind whenever I watch Homer Simpson getting ready to atomize Springfield . . . .
I haven't spoken to any of these three since 1989.
Gentlemen, where has this long trail led you thus far?
AAAO
UPDATE: I did finally get in touch with Steve Corn, who was living across the border from his old Missouri haunts in Baxter Springs KS. He was in the Reserves for years, left as a Major from memory. I have his contact details if you like.
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