@sheriff3 ,
39 years and 50 weeks ago I was packing my bags for Poland to attend my wedding. At that time, there were 500,000 Soviet troops the DDR and about 150,000 in Czechoslovakia. (They didn't need many in Poland since it was surrounded on all sides.) Not only are those troops gone, but those countries no longer exist and the remnants, including Poland, are now in NATO. Mrs. cb7893 and I were reconciled to knowing that it would be pain in the a$$--visa's, mandatory currency exchange, etc.-- to have our respective families on either side of the Iron Curtain. No one could have predicted today's geopolitical landscape in Central Europe.
When/If our DS completes his current training and quals his next duty station will be Stuttgart. Mrs. cb7893 dreams of the day that OUR DS goes to Poland in an official capacity. I'm sure she'll insist on being there and find some way to embarrass him.
Best of luck to your son and Na Zdrowie!
p.s. If you imbibe, have him bring you a bottle of Zubrowka.
39 years and 50 weeks ago I was packing my bags for Poland to attend my wedding. At that time, there were 500,000 Soviet troops the DDR and about 150,000 in Czechoslovakia. (They didn't need many in Poland since it was surrounded on all sides.) Not only are those troops gone, but those countries no longer exist and the remnants, including Poland, are now in NATO. Mrs. cb7893 and I were reconciled to knowing that it would be pain in the a$$--visa's, mandatory currency exchange, etc.-- to have our respective families on either side of the Iron Curtain. No one could have predicted today's geopolitical landscape in Central Europe.
When/If our DS completes his current training and quals his next duty station will be Stuttgart. Mrs. cb7893 dreams of the day that OUR DS goes to Poland in an official capacity. I'm sure she'll insist on being there and find some way to embarrass him.
Best of luck to your son and Na Zdrowie!
p.s. If you imbibe, have him bring you a bottle of Zubrowka.