newwbie3031

This is my last post. I would not have been a memorable person. However I was one person who did own a car. And some may remember me for the fact that after being pinned and leaving from England I had left behind, for those still in Germany to use , a yellow hatchback Pontiac Aster (Astra?). I think it was a 1975 model. If anyone does remember I don't want to be named.

W Germany wasn't the only country w military wows and 78-79 weren't the only years. Also during the wow year at least in Germany we didn't travel outside of our country just to different cities when required. Plus not many had their own car with them. We relied on hitchhiking, trains, and other believers. The Heartbeat festival was in Manchester England and was where we were commissioned and had our training. But I don't remember who I took the training with other than the people I was most familiar with in Germany.

Another thought. Classes. That was the year advanced class 79 was being pushed. So we were all encouraged to travel to take all the required classes for that during our wow year also. PFAL classes we ran in our own areas. All classes were cassette tape ones. Plus all classes were run over the weekends because of the different working hours of the military personnel. Shift work and classes were fun! Sarcasm here. If you worked Friday night shift, you would get off shift, no sleep, spend Saturday in class sessions etc. Some shift workers had the weekend off so that Friday Saturday was the only sleep deprivation. Others didn't get the time off. I loved learing what was taught but I also found that that type of a class schedule was very gruelling. So in that sense I also dreaded the classes. Plus at that time the PFAL class and intermediate class were both just the PFAL class. PFAL just had more sessions than the ones that had the intermediate class separated out.

Military wow in W Germany. We went through wow training in England. At the end of the year we were sent tickets to the roa but C St**p told us we had to stay until Sept festival in England to get our pins. We were required to stay in the location we were based in. However because we were so spread out in the country whenever we had wow meetings or leadership meetings we were allowed to travel to the locations they were held in. Veepee came over several times between 77-79. So we were able to attend those meetings also. But we weren't able to just sight see. I remember I really wanted to see the new schwanstein castle but couldn't. At wow training we were given the regular handbook all wows were given. Veepee interviewed all those who had signed up. We had our training program after the heartbeat festival that year. As best we could we followed the regular wow rules. The departures being what was required of us by the military. Which also meant we didn't work a part time job. Also at least some of us worked shift work. It also seems that another different rule was applied to us because there was no concern about pregnant women being wow also.

We were also 78-79 military wow ambassadors in West Germany. If you remember three of the military wow couples had babies during that time. I thought we had a lot of caring between all of the military involved in the way at that time. However when we returned stateside it seemed to be a lot colder than in Europe.