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In World War II, Aschaffenburg was heavily damaged by Allied area bombing, including Schloss Johannisburg which was completely restored several years later. The Germans chose to defend Aschaffenburg with particular steadfastness, which resulted in the "Battle of Aschaffenburg" fought 28 March - 3 April 1945. The U.S. 45th Infantry Division was forced to take the fortified town against stiff German resistance in a series of frontal assaults that involved house-to-house fighting and vicious close combat. The resulting widespread urban destruction was quite severe, as cannon fire was used point-blank to blast through structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschaffenburg
The Battle of Aschaffenburg examines the fight for the Main River city of Aschaffenburg in the closing weeks of World War II in Europe. It investigates the reasons why it took mobile and well supported elements of the U.S. Army ten days to subdue a defending German military force that was very much militia in character. After setting the battle in the context of Nazi Germany and the Aschaffenburg region just prior to the fight, the study takes the reader through the battle day-by-day describing the struggle and establishing the reasons why it was so prolonged. The study groups the reasons for the successful German defense into three categories: terrain, operational factors and behavioral determinants. It establishes that the terrain favored the defenders with the town located across the Main River from the attackers so that they were forced into frontal assaults. Granting favorable defensive terrain, it was not until a numerically superior attacking force enveloped the urban defenses, under the cover of massive fire support, that the Americans gained the upper hand. The study further demonstrates the impact of the concept of the will to win on military operations, even in a hopeless cause.
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA212023
The German commander at the Battle of Aschaffenburg, Major Emil Lamberth, was a World War I veteran who had arrived in the city in June 1944 to assume command of the 9th Pioneer (Engineer) Battalion. Before the war he had been a schoolteacher who maintained his reserve commission. he was apparently a diligent officer because within a few months he was also working as the deputy to Lt. Col. Kurt Von Huenersdorff, the city’s garrison commander. At the end of January 1945, Lamberth took over that position himself.
The German and American View of Lamberth
As the Alied armies approached, Lamberth prepared the city to take its place in the local defensive line. He was made the Aschaffenburg combat commander despite the presence of higher-ranking officers, most likely because of his combat experience and apparent dedication to duty. His command required him to work with various party and municipal officials.
When the battle began, Lamberth’s battle group consisted of a widely varied and largely untrained body of troops. That the defense of the city was conducted with such vigor and for so long is in part a testament to his leadership. There are tow different views of this man, however: Not unexpectedly, one view is mostly that of the American veterans of the battle while the other comes largely from the German side.
In the first case, many characterize him as an ardent Nazi who ruthlessly pushed his soldiers to fight a hopeless battle, with the full backing of his SS comrades. Some Hungarian POWs captured during the battle told their captors that more Germans wanted to surrender but their officers and SS overseers would not allow it. To discourage defeatism and surrender, he executed one officer, a Lieutenant Heymann, and another, a Luftwaffe man who felt he did not have any skills to bring into the fight. Troops and correspondents reported seeing a number of bodies swinging from lampposts.
There is other evidence that Lamberth was not in complete control of the fight. According to some independent accounts and Lamberths’ own postwar statement, SS and Nazi Party men constantly interfered with his conduct of the battle. Rather than act as comrades in arms, these Nazis were more like overseers.
Post-War Charges
Lamberth was tried for manslaughter after the war; at his trial he stated that Heymann had offered no defense to the charges against him. This caused the major to consider him guilty. Lamberth was found guilty himself and sentenced to four years in prison although the sentence was reduced because the court found Lamberth to be under pressure from the SS commission and Nazi officials.
A 1949 Aschaffenburg newspaper article states that Lamberth was drunk at the time he condemned Heymann, not an excuse for his conduct, certainly, but not something one would expect from an ardent Nazi intent on maintaining control in order to exact maximum casualties from his foe.
The truth is likely somewhere in the middle and will be colored by the pint of view of the observer. The Americans understandably were biased against Lamberth. He had forced them to fight a tough battle they did not expect and did not want. While he was within his authority to execute soldiers for cowardice, this was not something Americans generally did, and the concept would have repulsed them. Many of the American news statements about Lamberth were written with a dramatic flair; on the German side, many certainly made efforts after the war to distance themselves from the Nazis and to emphasize the fear and coercion they lived under during the Third Reich.
What can be said is that Lamberth seemed a skilled and experienced officer, given the 10-day defense he conducted. With his skills not in question, identifying the motivation for his actions remains problematic.
by Christopher Miskimon
http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/the-battle-of-aschaffenburg-major-emil-lamberth/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschaffenburg
The Battle of Aschaffenburg examines the fight for the Main River city of Aschaffenburg in the closing weeks of World War II in Europe. It investigates the reasons why it took mobile and well supported elements of the U.S. Army ten days to subdue a defending German military force that was very much militia in character. After setting the battle in the context of Nazi Germany and the Aschaffenburg region just prior to the fight, the study takes the reader through the battle day-by-day describing the struggle and establishing the reasons why it was so prolonged. The study groups the reasons for the successful German defense into three categories: terrain, operational factors and behavioral determinants. It establishes that the terrain favored the defenders with the town located across the Main River from the attackers so that they were forced into frontal assaults. Granting favorable defensive terrain, it was not until a numerically superior attacking force enveloped the urban defenses, under the cover of massive fire support, that the Americans gained the upper hand. The study further demonstrates the impact of the concept of the will to win on military operations, even in a hopeless cause.
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA212023
The German commander at the Battle of Aschaffenburg, Major Emil Lamberth, was a World War I veteran who had arrived in the city in June 1944 to assume command of the 9th Pioneer (Engineer) Battalion. Before the war he had been a schoolteacher who maintained his reserve commission. he was apparently a diligent officer because within a few months he was also working as the deputy to Lt. Col. Kurt Von Huenersdorff, the city’s garrison commander. At the end of January 1945, Lamberth took over that position himself.
The German and American View of Lamberth
As the Alied armies approached, Lamberth prepared the city to take its place in the local defensive line. He was made the Aschaffenburg combat commander despite the presence of higher-ranking officers, most likely because of his combat experience and apparent dedication to duty. His command required him to work with various party and municipal officials.
When the battle began, Lamberth’s battle group consisted of a widely varied and largely untrained body of troops. That the defense of the city was conducted with such vigor and for so long is in part a testament to his leadership. There are tow different views of this man, however: Not unexpectedly, one view is mostly that of the American veterans of the battle while the other comes largely from the German side.
In the first case, many characterize him as an ardent Nazi who ruthlessly pushed his soldiers to fight a hopeless battle, with the full backing of his SS comrades. Some Hungarian POWs captured during the battle told their captors that more Germans wanted to surrender but their officers and SS overseers would not allow it. To discourage defeatism and surrender, he executed one officer, a Lieutenant Heymann, and another, a Luftwaffe man who felt he did not have any skills to bring into the fight. Troops and correspondents reported seeing a number of bodies swinging from lampposts.
There is other evidence that Lamberth was not in complete control of the fight. According to some independent accounts and Lamberths’ own postwar statement, SS and Nazi Party men constantly interfered with his conduct of the battle. Rather than act as comrades in arms, these Nazis were more like overseers.
Post-War Charges
Lamberth was tried for manslaughter after the war; at his trial he stated that Heymann had offered no defense to the charges against him. This caused the major to consider him guilty. Lamberth was found guilty himself and sentenced to four years in prison although the sentence was reduced because the court found Lamberth to be under pressure from the SS commission and Nazi officials.
A 1949 Aschaffenburg newspaper article states that Lamberth was drunk at the time he condemned Heymann, not an excuse for his conduct, certainly, but not something one would expect from an ardent Nazi intent on maintaining control in order to exact maximum casualties from his foe.
The truth is likely somewhere in the middle and will be colored by the pint of view of the observer. The Americans understandably were biased against Lamberth. He had forced them to fight a tough battle they did not expect and did not want. While he was within his authority to execute soldiers for cowardice, this was not something Americans generally did, and the concept would have repulsed them. Many of the American news statements about Lamberth were written with a dramatic flair; on the German side, many certainly made efforts after the war to distance themselves from the Nazis and to emphasize the fear and coercion they lived under during the Third Reich.
What can be said is that Lamberth seemed a skilled and experienced officer, given the 10-day defense he conducted. With his skills not in question, identifying the motivation for his actions remains problematic.
by Christopher Miskimon
http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/the-battle-of-aschaffenburg-major-emil-lamberth/
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Thanks SGT John " Mac " McConnell for providing a summary and a video of the Battle of Aschaffenburg, Germany in the closing months of WWII in Europe.
One of the reasons the Germans fought so fiercely to defend Aschaffenburg was because of the displaced person camps in the area. The DP Camps provided the work force for much of the German industrial and infrastructure systems.
Displaced Person Camps in Aschaffenburg, Germany
The town is located on both sides of the Main in the southwest part of Germany, 41 kilometers (25 mi) southeast of Frankfurt am Main. In the western part of the municipal territory, the smaller Aschaff River flows into the Main River. The region is also known as Bayerischer Untermain ("Bavarian Lower Main"). Aschaffenburg lies in the far northwest of the state of Bavaria, close to the border to the state of Hesse.
There were six camps in Aschaffenburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschaffenburg
1. Alte (old) Kaserne (opened in 1805) on Goldbacher Strasse at corner of Weissenburger Strasse.
2. Jäger-Kaserne (1894-96) on 180 Würtzburger Strasse; mostly Poles & Lithuanians
3. Pionier later renamed Fiori-Kaserne (opened 1936); 2,000 people (1946–1949); on Schweinheimer Strasse.
4.Lagarde (LaGarda) (opened 1936-7); 1,700 people (1945–1949; later renamed Smith-Kaserne on Würtzburger Strasse.
5. Bois (forest)-Brullee (opened 1937); 1,500 people (1946–1949); later renamed Graves-Kaserne on Würtzburger Strasse. Many Ukrainians
6. Artilerie Artilleries (opened 1938); approx. 2,000 people (1945–1949; later renamed Ready-Kaserne on Würtzburger Strasse. Many Ukrainians
Images: 1945-03-29 to 04-04 Map of Encirclement_of_the_Ruhr Aschaffenburg is in the cneter northwest if Wurzburg and east of Frankfurt; 1945-04-03 Street barrier under a battered arch, Aschaffenburg; 1945 Aschaffenburg Street Map with DP camps; 1945-04-05 14th Armored Division soldiers move past a knocked Sherman Tank in Aschaffenburg, during their drive towards Hammelburg, Germany
Displaced Persons Camps
There is a big difference between a slave labor camp and a displaced person's camp. Slavic & Baltic slaves in the slave work camps were found by the Allies and taken by rail to dp / refugee camps. From 1945 to 1950, the United Nations Relief organization fed, clothed, gave medical attention and dispersed refugees to all parts of the world for a new start in life - Australia, Venezuela, Belgium, England, and finally later, the United States.
There were 7-10 million (figures vary depends on who's report) citizens in Nazi Germany, working as slave laborers in factories all over Germany with OST (east) identification cards. Those without identification cards had numbers branded on the inside of their right arm. They were rounded up and hauled into DP camps, 1,000 at a time in cattle cars, their paperwork processed and then assigned a bed."
http://www.dpcamps.org/aschaffenburg.html
Here is a summary of the World War II History of the 2nd Chemical Mortar Bn after they crossed the Rhine River
Crossing the Rhine
Campaign of Central Europe - click to enlarge During the evening of 24 Mar, the battalion was attached to regimental combat teams for Rhine River crossings as follows:
Co A atchd 179th Inf
Co B atchd 180th Inf
Co C atchd 157th Inf
Co A moved into position on the evening of 25 Mar, in preparation for the Rhine crossing between Worms and Mainz. Two platoons were in the vicinity of Hamm, with one platoon in assembly position for immediate crossings. The crossing started at 0230 on 26 Mar, and one platoon fired into Gernsheim at H hour, starting several fires. During the night of 26-27 Mar, the company completed its crossing, by ferry, clearing at 0400 on 27 Mar and assembling in Gross Ruhrheim. As resistance was light, no firing was required and the company moved with the 179th to Gross Ostheim. On Mar 28-31, the company fired in support of the 179th advance, which moved rather slowly south of Aschaffenburg because of fanatical resistance in that city.
On 30 Mar, one man was killed and five men were seriously wounded in Co A by an enemy mortar tree-burst directly over one of our mortars which was firing at the time.
On 25 Mar, Co B moved into position for the Rhine crossings, one platoon attached to each battalion of the 180th Inf. No firing was required in support of the crossings. The company crossed on the 26th, two platoons in DUKWS and one by ferry. A few missions were fired to support the advance of the 180th which was meeting more resistance than the other regiments. On 29 Mar, the company fired very successfully on an enemy strong point in a factory on the east bank of the Main River, starting a large oil fire.
On 31 Mar, after Co B had crossed the Main river in support of the 180th Inf, the regiment was relieved by the 15th Inf of the 3rd Div, and the company was relieved from attachment to the 180th Inf and attached to the 3rd Div in the vicinity of Volkersbrunn.
On 25 Mar, Co C moved to positions in the vicinity of Ibersheim and Rheindurkheim in support of the 157th Inf which was initially in reserve. The company crossed the Rhine by pontoon bridge on the 27th and did no firing until Aschaffenburg was reached. Here fanatical resistance was encountered by the 157th, and the entire company fired many missions into the city starting numerous fires and destroying several buildings. For four days, the city held out against our constant mortar and artillery fire and continued daylight bombing. The company remained in position on the outskirts of town until the end of the month.
On 1 Apr 1945, the battalion, minus Co B was attached to XV Corps and further attached to the 45th Inf Div. Co B was attached to the 3rd Inf Div. Both divisions were operating adjacent to each other and spearheading the drive of the corps across Germany. At the beginning of the month, the Main river had just been crossed by both divisions south of Aschaffenburg, and they had advanced northeast toward Bruckenau and Gersfeld. Aschaffenburg held out for two days after it had been isolated and bypassed, but surrendered on 2 Apr. Attachments of companies to units within XV Corps during the month changed frequently and are listed below:
Bn Hq, Apr 1-30, 1945, 45th Inf Div
Co A: Apr 1-21, 1945, 179th Inf Div; Apr 21-30, 1945, 42nd Inf Div
Co B: Apr 1-21, 1945, 3rd Inf Div; Apr 21-30, 1945, 179th Inf, 45th Div
Co C: 45th Div: Apr 1-3, 157th Inf; Apr 3-14, 180th Inf; Apr 14-30, 157th Inf
In general, the war at this period had become a pursuit of the enemy. On most occasions, platoons were detached from their companies and attached to infantry regiments and battalions for rapid support in the fast moving situation. Resistance was light during the entire period except for defenses around Nurnberg and on the Danube River. Very little firing was done during the month, in fact, the lowest of any combat month since the battalion first saw action in Sicily.
During the fight for Nurnberg, defended by approximately 8,000 SS troops supported by dual purpose 88 mm guns, one incident is worthy of note. The third platoon of Co C, attached at the time to the 180th Inf, engaged in a close-up duel with a battery of six 88 mm guns at a range of 350 yards. Two mortars firing with two powder rings (minimum range table: 3� rings), completely neutralized the gun battery with 150 rounds of mixed WP and HE and enabled a squad of infantry to take 225 prisoners from dugouts surrounding the position.
April for the XV Corps found the resistance, except for a few isolated instances, practically negligible, and the fight was a fight of supply and rapid movement alone. Important cities captured during the month by units to which the battalion was attached were: Aschaffenburg, Gersfeld, Bad Bruckenau, Bad Kissingen, Bamberg, Erlangen, Nurnberg, Schwabach, Dachau, and Munchen. The Main, the Saale, the Pegnitz, the Altmuhl, and the Danube and Isar rivers were crossed."
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One of the reasons the Germans fought so fiercely to defend Aschaffenburg was because of the displaced person camps in the area. The DP Camps provided the work force for much of the German industrial and infrastructure systems.
Displaced Person Camps in Aschaffenburg, Germany
The town is located on both sides of the Main in the southwest part of Germany, 41 kilometers (25 mi) southeast of Frankfurt am Main. In the western part of the municipal territory, the smaller Aschaff River flows into the Main River. The region is also known as Bayerischer Untermain ("Bavarian Lower Main"). Aschaffenburg lies in the far northwest of the state of Bavaria, close to the border to the state of Hesse.
There were six camps in Aschaffenburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschaffenburg
1. Alte (old) Kaserne (opened in 1805) on Goldbacher Strasse at corner of Weissenburger Strasse.
2. Jäger-Kaserne (1894-96) on 180 Würtzburger Strasse; mostly Poles & Lithuanians
3. Pionier later renamed Fiori-Kaserne (opened 1936); 2,000 people (1946–1949); on Schweinheimer Strasse.
4.Lagarde (LaGarda) (opened 1936-7); 1,700 people (1945–1949; later renamed Smith-Kaserne on Würtzburger Strasse.
5. Bois (forest)-Brullee (opened 1937); 1,500 people (1946–1949); later renamed Graves-Kaserne on Würtzburger Strasse. Many Ukrainians
6. Artilerie Artilleries (opened 1938); approx. 2,000 people (1945–1949; later renamed Ready-Kaserne on Würtzburger Strasse. Many Ukrainians
Images: 1945-03-29 to 04-04 Map of Encirclement_of_the_Ruhr Aschaffenburg is in the cneter northwest if Wurzburg and east of Frankfurt; 1945-04-03 Street barrier under a battered arch, Aschaffenburg; 1945 Aschaffenburg Street Map with DP camps; 1945-04-05 14th Armored Division soldiers move past a knocked Sherman Tank in Aschaffenburg, during their drive towards Hammelburg, Germany
Displaced Persons Camps
There is a big difference between a slave labor camp and a displaced person's camp. Slavic & Baltic slaves in the slave work camps were found by the Allies and taken by rail to dp / refugee camps. From 1945 to 1950, the United Nations Relief organization fed, clothed, gave medical attention and dispersed refugees to all parts of the world for a new start in life - Australia, Venezuela, Belgium, England, and finally later, the United States.
There were 7-10 million (figures vary depends on who's report) citizens in Nazi Germany, working as slave laborers in factories all over Germany with OST (east) identification cards. Those without identification cards had numbers branded on the inside of their right arm. They were rounded up and hauled into DP camps, 1,000 at a time in cattle cars, their paperwork processed and then assigned a bed."
http://www.dpcamps.org/aschaffenburg.html
Here is a summary of the World War II History of the 2nd Chemical Mortar Bn after they crossed the Rhine River
Crossing the Rhine
Campaign of Central Europe - click to enlarge During the evening of 24 Mar, the battalion was attached to regimental combat teams for Rhine River crossings as follows:
Co A atchd 179th Inf
Co B atchd 180th Inf
Co C atchd 157th Inf
Co A moved into position on the evening of 25 Mar, in preparation for the Rhine crossing between Worms and Mainz. Two platoons were in the vicinity of Hamm, with one platoon in assembly position for immediate crossings. The crossing started at 0230 on 26 Mar, and one platoon fired into Gernsheim at H hour, starting several fires. During the night of 26-27 Mar, the company completed its crossing, by ferry, clearing at 0400 on 27 Mar and assembling in Gross Ruhrheim. As resistance was light, no firing was required and the company moved with the 179th to Gross Ostheim. On Mar 28-31, the company fired in support of the 179th advance, which moved rather slowly south of Aschaffenburg because of fanatical resistance in that city.
On 30 Mar, one man was killed and five men were seriously wounded in Co A by an enemy mortar tree-burst directly over one of our mortars which was firing at the time.
On 25 Mar, Co B moved into position for the Rhine crossings, one platoon attached to each battalion of the 180th Inf. No firing was required in support of the crossings. The company crossed on the 26th, two platoons in DUKWS and one by ferry. A few missions were fired to support the advance of the 180th which was meeting more resistance than the other regiments. On 29 Mar, the company fired very successfully on an enemy strong point in a factory on the east bank of the Main River, starting a large oil fire.
On 31 Mar, after Co B had crossed the Main river in support of the 180th Inf, the regiment was relieved by the 15th Inf of the 3rd Div, and the company was relieved from attachment to the 180th Inf and attached to the 3rd Div in the vicinity of Volkersbrunn.
On 25 Mar, Co C moved to positions in the vicinity of Ibersheim and Rheindurkheim in support of the 157th Inf which was initially in reserve. The company crossed the Rhine by pontoon bridge on the 27th and did no firing until Aschaffenburg was reached. Here fanatical resistance was encountered by the 157th, and the entire company fired many missions into the city starting numerous fires and destroying several buildings. For four days, the city held out against our constant mortar and artillery fire and continued daylight bombing. The company remained in position on the outskirts of town until the end of the month.
On 1 Apr 1945, the battalion, minus Co B was attached to XV Corps and further attached to the 45th Inf Div. Co B was attached to the 3rd Inf Div. Both divisions were operating adjacent to each other and spearheading the drive of the corps across Germany. At the beginning of the month, the Main river had just been crossed by both divisions south of Aschaffenburg, and they had advanced northeast toward Bruckenau and Gersfeld. Aschaffenburg held out for two days after it had been isolated and bypassed, but surrendered on 2 Apr. Attachments of companies to units within XV Corps during the month changed frequently and are listed below:
Bn Hq, Apr 1-30, 1945, 45th Inf Div
Co A: Apr 1-21, 1945, 179th Inf Div; Apr 21-30, 1945, 42nd Inf Div
Co B: Apr 1-21, 1945, 3rd Inf Div; Apr 21-30, 1945, 179th Inf, 45th Div
Co C: 45th Div: Apr 1-3, 157th Inf; Apr 3-14, 180th Inf; Apr 14-30, 157th Inf
In general, the war at this period had become a pursuit of the enemy. On most occasions, platoons were detached from their companies and attached to infantry regiments and battalions for rapid support in the fast moving situation. Resistance was light during the entire period except for defenses around Nurnberg and on the Danube River. Very little firing was done during the month, in fact, the lowest of any combat month since the battalion first saw action in Sicily.
During the fight for Nurnberg, defended by approximately 8,000 SS troops supported by dual purpose 88 mm guns, one incident is worthy of note. The third platoon of Co C, attached at the time to the 180th Inf, engaged in a close-up duel with a battery of six 88 mm guns at a range of 350 yards. Two mortars firing with two powder rings (minimum range table: 3� rings), completely neutralized the gun battery with 150 rounds of mixed WP and HE and enabled a squad of infantry to take 225 prisoners from dugouts surrounding the position.
April for the XV Corps found the resistance, except for a few isolated instances, practically negligible, and the fight was a fight of supply and rapid movement alone. Important cities captured during the month by units to which the battalion was attached were: Aschaffenburg, Gersfeld, Bad Bruckenau, Bad Kissingen, Bamberg, Erlangen, Nurnberg, Schwabach, Dachau, and Munchen. The Main, the Saale, the Pegnitz, the Altmuhl, and the Danube and Isar rivers were crossed."
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Aschaffenburg (German pronunciation: [aˈʃafənbʊɐk]( listen)) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the administrative seat.
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SSgt Robert Marx
Losing that camp dealt the Nazi's a great blow. That was a great Easter gift for the dying American president, POTUS FDR.
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This battle, one of the last for Germany during WW2, actually finished up several weeks before Hitler's suicide in his bunker located at the Chancellorship complex in Berlin. That foolhardy leader had combined the offices of Chancellor with president of the Reich in defiance of the Weimar Constitution. It is of note that Hitler passed into history essentially as the German Chancellor for his communication system was compromised and soon the Russians would be fighting all around his final bunker. He still commanded fear by all those around him despite being a physically broken man who would probably have soon demised without suicide despite being only 56 due to all of the poison in his system plus the wounds suffered by the 20 July 1944 incident. The quack doctors treating him poisoned him with arsenic and other poisons.
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Maj Marty Hogan
SSgt Robert Marx - thanks very much and packing up and moving people out of the building. What did we accomplish this drill? We promoted an individual we took into the MDG a while back that was on the verge of being kicked out for fitness failures- he has passed his last 2, lost 60 pounds, changed career fields and is thriving. We had a promotion party for an O5 and an E9 last night, and we promoted one of our brightest to First Sgt. That was on top of seeing 70+ patients. 30 days crammed into 2.
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SSgt Robert Marx
Maj Marty Hogan - Sounds like a full weekend! The individual you promoted after a successful fitness program must really rock! Take care, sir, and have a great week.
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