Seventh Army: Checkmate To Aggression - The Big Picture

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Big Picture: Seventh Army: Checkmate to Aggression
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). You're in a briefing room at Seventh Army Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany...You're with a border patrol along the defense line of western Europe...You're at 9,000 feet over Germany with a skydiver team...You're in a German language class at Ulm...You're at the Seventh Army Operations Center during a general readiness test. This THE BIG PICTURE makes you part of the Seventh Army--the most powerful field army that the United States has ever assembled in peacetime. For 30 minutes you are invited to witness the power and magnitude of "Seventh Army--Checkmate to Aggression."

[@drewzilla4800]

I was at Patch Barracks last week, was also there 25 years ago.. wow what an old home video!

[@ronbates1795]

I was at Leighton Barracks in Wurzburg with the 3rd I D MP Det 61-63. We were still under the old Pentomic Division concept with 5 Battlegroups. I spent a lot of time at Hohenfels.

[@soul69charger]

the bordercamp pictured at ca. minute 9 is camp gates near Haingruen, Marktredwitz

[@richardsmith9609]

Spent a lot of time at Camp Gates when up on the border with my Scout platoon. Remember Marktredwitz well and always enjoyed sneaking and peaking over the border.

[@timtim8468]

A film about the work on the other side can be found searching: Grenztruppen der DDR Achtung Staatsgrenze