My husband just got orders for Conn Barracks in Germany?

Question

The post is in Schweinfurt, Germany and I have no idea what to expect. I have never been to Europe and he is still in AIT so I have never lived on post. Any advice?

Answer 1

Honey, My husband had been stationed there.  We lived there for Three and a half years.  It is a very small post.  Be careful with housing there.  Askern Manors where most people live should have most of the housing refurnished but the people within the neighborhood fight a lot with each other.  Husbands deploy a lot from schweinfurt.  There are some great restaurants that do deliver to the military families there and the germans are very nice.  It is a beautiful surrounding when taking a drive out there.  For your drivers test, study the whole book and remember all the answers at the back.  You will take a driving test that is almost two hundred questions.  If you remember the test at the back of the book you will do fine. Many people fail the first time around.  I have no idea if Wuerzburg is still open.  That is the closet bigger post nearby where there is an American hospital.  The commisary is not all that in schweinfurt.  It is very small and is in the neighborhood of askernmanors.  It is very simple living in Schweinfurt.  You should have no problems or worries there.  There are two barracks there which is Conn and the other one Ledward.  AskernManors the neighborhood where most of the military families live is placed right between both post.  A warning, these soldiers deploy a lot from Schweinfurt.  The day we got there they tell my husband he is leaving within thirty days for his first deployment of seven months.  He gets back and within a year later he was in Iraq for a year. I loved Germany.  It is very beautiful but be very careful what types of friends you make.  I never trust military wives anymore and after experience so many of them have so much problems they want to bring into your family which is not good.

Answer 2

I had a buddy that was born and raised on a base in Germany...and he didn't even speak a l**k of German. No matter where you get stationed, remember it is still your country's military base, and they will have all the amenities you're familiar with from home.

I recommend that you just enjoy being there, go out and tour.  

Answer 3

Sure, keep an open mind, go with the flow, so to speak, enjoy what an overseas assignment can offer, recognize it as an opportunity that a relative few get to experience, and above all, listen to the Families, and the Unit, that are there, and have all experienced the strangeness (at first), the confusion (at first), and the joys (overall)... they know the area, the customs, the people... enjoy your 1st overseas assignment... some people get addicted to it!

Answer 4

We are headed there also. Dh report date is 9-6-08. I have found alot of onfo about on base. Try going to there home page. Hope this helps.