User talk:RbinBCMD

I spent more than a year in 2d Battle Group 12th Infantry from March 1958 to April 1959. During that period I served about 10 months as Chief Courts and Boards Section, replacing a Master Sergeant. Your statements about the 1957-59 are not quite right. The 2d Battle Group was assigned to the 8th Division and departed Germany in March 1959 for Ft. Riley. Other units of the 8th Division were to follow. Because of our enlistment dates, there were about 20 of us held in Germany and assigned to 2d. BG 28th Infantry for about 6 weeks before we returned to USA with it in late April 1959. I was discharged May 8. Units of the 1st Division were arriving at the same time. I had been in basic training with the 1st BG 26th Infantry at Ft. Riley and served as Compamny Clerk of Co.A from Septembner 1957 to February 1958. That same unit arrived the day we were leaving Baumholder. There was some confusion about the 1st division and 8th Division designations at the time. There had been a report that the division designations would change and the 1st Division units would become 8th Division as they arrived in Germany and the 8th Division units would become the 1st Division as the returned to USA. I don't think that was ever actually done. Suggested rewording:

". . .2nd Battle Group 12th Infantry was assigned to the 8th Division in Germany until March 1959 when it was reassigned to Ft. Riley, Kansas under the Gyroscope program."

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