When you scrape the bottom of the barrel, this is what you get

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Note to General Jones: Your base realignment plan is a catastrophuck. Other generals tried to warn you. Ah well, so much for "small footprint..."

2nd Cavalry soldier taken into custody after brawl in Amberg

AMBERG, Germany — About a month after the U.S. Army started late night patrols to cut down on the number of fights between soldiers and local Germans, a 2nd Cavalry (Stryker) Regiment soldier was taken into custody Thursday following an altercation with a German man.

“Yesterday, we had an incident in Amberg by involving of a member of the ‘Stryker-Unit,’ ” Peter Kramer, a member of the Amberg police, wrote in an e-mail to Stars and Stripes.

According to an Amberg police news release, a group of three U.S. soldiers got into a verbal altercation with a group of Germans on Bahnhofstrasse in Amberg. During the altercation, a 23-year-old U.S. soldier punched a 24-year-old German in the left cheek, the release stated. The name of the soldier was not released.

The German police were called to the scene and took the U.S. soldier into custody. He was found to have a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 1.56 milligrams per milliliter, the release stated. In Germany, a driver who has a BAC of .8 milligrams per milliliter is considered legally drunk.

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1. Bar-room brawls are not a result of "the bottom of the barrel"

some of the most uprighteous people I've known have gotten into bar-room brawls.

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2. There are no barrooms in Amberg

Amberg is..ahem...WAS, a quiet sleepy German village in Eastern Bavaria, until the Crips and Bloods showed up c/o the Stryker Brigade. Once that happened, in Aug/Sept. of this year, frequent acts of vandalism in Vilsek/Grafenwohr took place as well as attacks on Germans, using brass knuckles and collapsible batons as weapons. These criminal acts didn't used to happen while American troops were in the area. For decades, US soldiers have used the forests of the Graf/Vilsek area for training. Soldiers enjoyed the fish, brats and beer, and obeyed US military/German law.

Now, despite MP patrols, these acts of aggression against the local nationals are taking place fairly regularly. It's inexcusable. The soldiers' aggression and drunkenness make it dangerous for everyone, to include American families, who are consigned to the same black-ice two-lane roads as the below-the-bar inebriates-in-uniform/on the taxpayer dole. Due to lack of planning on behalf of General Jones, there is very limited housing in the area, so military personnel must drive, drunk, for well over 40 minutes to get where they want to go. It's a disaster for some, waiting too happen.