I KEEP SEEING stories like this in various media outlets. I don't know if this is literally true...if it is, those of us living here have not been told about it. What we have been told is this community will close in three years and will relocate to Bavaria. That is significantly different than reported in this story.

This change is occurring swiftly and dramatically. The 17,000 member 1st Armored Division, most of which was sent to Iraq from Germany, will not return there. The Pentagon will be removing most of its troops from the old cold war bases in Europe and basing them in the territories of its new found friends. It will be former communist countries like Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic that provide the new bases for U.S. power in the region and a growing voice of support for the United States in the game of global politics.