Soldiers, families from 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division check out what Grafenwöhr has to offer

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Families of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division tour Netzaberg, a build-to-lease community just outside the Grafenwöhr, Germany. The complex is one of the housing options for those who are relocating from Schweinfurt.


Soldiers, families from 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division check out what Grafenwöhr has to offer
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, January 14, 2008

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Three days after receiving word that they will have to pick up and move, about 350 soldiers and family members of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, on Saturday toured the community they will next call home.

The daylong trip, organized at the behest of V Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Kenneth Hunzeker, was intended to give families a firsthand look at what that new home has to offer.

Grafenwöhr, a U.S. Army post about 100 miles from the brigade’s Schweinfurt home, has in recent years undergone more than $1 billion in improvements to become perhaps the most well- appointed Army facility in Europe.

But moving there, officials acknowledge, could cause some headaches for soldiers and families that have established themselves in Schweinfurt.

“People, let’s be frank, they are comfortable with where they are, and change isn’t something that comes naturally,” Maj. Eric Timmerman, the brigade’s deputy commander, said Saturday.


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