One of the first to arrive

   The 175th Military Police Battalion was one of the first units to arrive at Grenadier Kaserne.  By the time I arrived at Grenadier in 1961 there were no MP’s based there.  As I recall the closest MP’s were located at Wilkins Barracks only a few miles away in Kornwestheim.  I think there were more MP’s located on the south side of Stuttgart in the town of Nellingen.

  The picture above is of the main entry to Grenadier Kaserne. These were soldiers of the 175th MP Battalion.  The 175th was part of the Missouri National Guard and they were called up in 1951. Below is a picture of the entry to their service club. They arrived at Grenadier Kaserne in August 1951. After early Fall maneuvers they moved their headquarters to Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Boblingen.

  There was no service club at Grenadier Kaserne when I was there. I am assuming that it left with the MP’s or when Robinson Barracks opened its doors.  We did open up a small “bottle club” in one of the building across the street.  Any enlisted man, E-4 or higher could join.  It was a great room and everyone had their own bottle of whatever they drank.  We ended up closing the room in late 1962 because we had a number of ‘in waiting’ NCO’s that started their drinking too early.  One took up sleeping there.  We are talking about the WWII Cannon Fodder folks.