I cant seem to find any info about this place.

so far it looks like it is home to the 172nd....right?

If anyone has any idea as to what I can expect please let me know!

Check out Grafenwöhr.
It is near Vilseck.

http://www.grafenwoehr.army.mil/
Check units/tenants
It has a list of everything at the East Camp.

I have no idea why but I cannot open that website- and I tried 3 different browsers.

Maybe it is because the internet at camp casey blows.

It's been said that Grafenwoehr is the world's only place where one can be knee-deep in mud & still get dust blown into his face. If you're going to 172nd Infantry Brigade, maybe you'll luck out & be assigned to 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Lions of Cantigny -- a crack outfit. Good luck!

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Originally posted by 20274112:
I cant seem to find any info about this place.

so far it looks like it is home to the 172nd....right?

If anyone has any idea as to what I can expect please let me know!

there are 2 units asssined 2acr and the 172nd to that area if you get on the site wendell gave you ...you,ll see it theres also a magazine blackhorse try bringing that up .

You'll love Graph,, it's like Heaven on earth.

Just be glad they didn't send you to Hohenfels.

Nah, nothing is colder than Baumholder.

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Originally posted by gumbydammit:
Nah, nothing is colder than Baumholder.

You should have gone to Wildflieckin before it was closed or Bad Tolz.

Im from Graf 172 infantry brigade 2-28 Black Lions were in iraq right now but we will be home by the end of the year..anyways you'll be doing alot of light infantry type training this training rotation the bradleys wont be there since you wont need bradleys in Afghanistan so those wont be coming back with us...Acouple of gunnery's in Graf and 1 in Hoensfields for about a month and the rest is all drinking and hung over PT buddy..lots of snow and rain also you only really see the sun for aocuple months during the summer.Other then that Graf is out in the middle of no where which kind of sucks the closeset city is Nurenberg which is about 30 to 45 minutes away..Graf is huge more like a huge training ground...the barracks are mostly new and there is alot of construction still going on because the post is getting bigger...they got a nice px one of the best in Germany.Anyways aslong as ur pretty good in PT and know your stuff you'll be alright in a line platoon. anyways if u wanna know more let me know

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Originally posted by WENDELLKEITHDUNCAN:
You should have gone to Wildflieckin before it was closed or Bad Tolz.

Been to Graf and Wildchicken. ('78-'81)

I went to Wildflecken once.
All I remember is being cold.
If you go to the field as much as we did, they all start looking alike.
And even though there were hard barrack shells and tent cities, somebody thought we would enjoy sleeping on rocks, cold ground and snow.

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Weiden is not far from Graf either.
I spent time at Camp Pittman, a border camp, and got to spend a few hours in town.
I know it is larger now.
I have heard the Russians try to be bad azzes in the area since the migrations after the wall.

I think if I was in Graf though and had transportation I would head to Czech Republic when I had time off. Good beer and cheap.

I arrived at Wildflecken in January, 1963. There was four feet of snow -- it snowed day & night until late March. The coldest place in my military experience, however, was Ft. Riley -- where freezing winds spawn snow snakes!

WENDELLKEITHDUNCAN. Well that suck for me cause i reenlisted for germany and got hohenfels.

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Originally posted by 12833035:
WENDELLKEITHDUNCAN. Well that suck for me cause i reenlisted for germany and got hohenfels.

It is really not that bad.
Back years ago Graf and Hohenfels had very few permanent cadre assigned there.
Graf had the ranges and Hohenfels was all for playing games.
Now, both are being built up.
But that means all the small Kasernes and outpost scattered across the German landscape have closed up shop.
In order to get around in those areas you need some good friends with a car or your own car.
which can be dangerous since the beer is so good.
Hohenfels is as close to Regensburg as it is to Nuremberg. I can't tell you much about Regensburg because I never partied there.
I did watch 6 Soldiers die there when a raft flips over in the middle of the river and their inflatable vest had dry rotted.

Wow that sucks for me. I reenlisted for germany and got hohenfels lol.

Catch the train in Parsberg.
That is where we railheaded into.
It is only 2-3 miles on Hohenfels to the Main Post area.
The Train runs regularly from there to Nuremburg and Regensburg.

I noted Erlangen because it is a great smaller city that is a college town and has summer long festivals.

Muchen is 50-60 miles from Regensburg.
Less than an hour by German standards.

On this side of Germany, there are more American units at Ansbach,Wurzburg and Schweinfurt.

Plus the US recreation area is south of Muchen near the Swiss border.