Hey everyone,

If your like me, Camp Pieri in Wiesbaden Germany was the most memorable time of our life. This site is to help us reconnect with our memories and old friends from the 563rd, Camp Pieri and Germany. Oh, I'm Mike Edwards. I was stationed at Camp Pieri, Wiesbaden Germany with the 563rd at the end of 1983 and left in April of 1985. There are many of you I served or partied with, however most of my stay in Germany I was living with my then girlfriend Stephanie. It would be cool to reconnect with Stephanie to see how her life turned out. Any information is welcomed.

I am fortunate to have saved many pictures from my Camp Pieri era. I invite any of you to forward your photos. Send them via e-mail and I will post them on the web. mikealaska@hotmail.com   Go to bottom of page to view pictures.

 

Rmebering Edward F. Pemintal (We shared a few good times together)

WEST GERMANY Fatal Identity

Specialist Four Edward F. Pimental, 20, left his barracks at Camp Pieri in Wiesbaden on the evening of Aug. 7, 1985 for a few hours of fun at the Western Saloon, a favorite haunt of U.S. soldiers at the base. He had a drink with a dark-haired woman dressed in blue jeans, who appeared to be with a tall mustachioed man she called Jeff. Pimental left with the couple. Next morning he was found dead, shot in the back of the neck with a large-caliber gun. Minutes after his body was found, a terrorist car bomb exploded inside the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base some 20 miles away, killing two people, both Americans, and injuring 21.

At first police theorized that Jeff could have been Pimental's killer. But last week the Frankfurt office of the Reuters news agency received a copy of a letter from the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental's ID card.

 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1074745,00.html?promoid=googlep

http://www.usarmygermany.com/Communities/Wiesbaden/Aerials_Camp%20Pieri%201950.htm   Great photo of Camp Pieri in 1950

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