Grafenwöhr noise issues linger

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Grafenwöhr noise issues linger
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, November 24, 2008

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany – Residents near Grafenwöhr’s Gate 1 must learn to live with occasional noise from soldiers returning home from the town’s bar district, Army leaders say.

In the wee hours of Saturday and Sunday mornings, hundreds of soldiers walk home to on-post barracks from bars just outside the gate. Their boisterous antics often disturb residents living in family on-post housing areas on either side of the road leading to the gate.

Despite a leadership presence along the road, introduced over the summer to clamp down on the noise problem, residents still complain about the late-night sounds.

U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwöhr commander Col. Nils "Chris" Sorenson patrolled the route into town on Saturday morning.

Sorenson, who checks most of the bars frequented by U.S. soldiers in Grafenwöhr every few weeks, said closing Gate 1 at night is not an option.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=59032

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1. Memories of Grafenwohr.