European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Draw by the continued from Page 15. Every unit withdrawal or installation reduction has been made Public. At least 4,000 More service members will Likely be removed from the equation before anyone can announce with finality that the draw Down is done. What numbers alone can never reveal is the personal Side of what has taken place. From the cold War to the unexpected lifting of the Iron curtain to the less expected War in the arabian desert these were for most people Distant happenings in faraway places. But to a single Community of americans Cis and family members stationed in Europe these were everyday events local occurrences. It was americans in Europe who greeted the. Refugees at fallen communist Borders and welcomed them to the West. In the midst of the euphoria it was the same americans from Europe who took their tanks and jets to the deserts of Iraq to perform some of the Grimmer less known missions of the persian Gulf War. Meanwhile their children Back in Europe went to schools that had been turned into fortified bunkers with machine gun nests in front of hamburger stands. It was Cis from Europe who fought the tank Battle that ended the ground War in 100 hours. And when they returned Home to Europe the same people found their units targeted for draw Down. In an ironic quirk of Pentagon strategy one of two major ground army commands in Germany the Vii corps was sent to fight in Iraq because secret troop reduction planning sessions had already targeted it for draw Down. The troops were in considered unimportant for the defense of Post cold War Europe. In the world of uncertainty Iraq continues to be a bloody place. Yugoslavia a decade ago was an officially sanctioned . Military vacation i spot now half the forces in Europe Are on standby to police an unlikely peace in that country s broken remains  the old world was never supposed to be a permanent one anyway its founding fathers were the men who waded ashore at Omaha and Utah beaches on june 6,1944. They were supposed to liberate Europe and go Home. Yet from a Day Onward there has never been a Day in the last 50 years when the number of americans on Continental Europe did not exceed 100,000. Even the new world the one that comes after the cold War after the Short lived new world order and after the draw Down will include More than a Quarter million americans stationed with the military on these shores. The new world is a place of deployments and Long family separations. Instead of perfecting never to be used strategies against the red army invaders who never came the ranks Are peppered with veterans of a half dozen smaller skirmishes who Are trying to guess where tomorrow s next Uncertain Mission will take them. It might be a medical assignment in Russia or Ghana or patrol duty along the serbian Border in Macedonia or an airstrike in some place we can t yet pronounce. The new world is not As Concrete and defined As the world of the cold War Era. It does not yet even have a name. But these few pages show at least a glimpse of its shape. Community populations in Germany Netherlands 3,000 Germany unite kingdom 2 l.90q_ Belgium 6.500 final i draw Down 1 population Spain 7,500 w is rat \?"j.s"4 thy of � garlstedt9,925 0 \ Bremerhaven 7,700 1.10 Giessen 132,750 7,300 Pitburg 11,100 Span Dahlem 12,000 10,500 Hahn 12,000 0 Baum older 21,600 s is u Sembach 7,200 Mainz Wiesbaden 40,400 bad 7 3�� Kreuz Nach Darmstadt 11,000 17,300 7,000 8,000 frankfurt26,000 350 Hanau 33,000 11,500 Fulda 10,100 0 Wil Flecken �7,000 0 Schweinfurt 14,200fj.ooo Berlin 17,0000 Bamberg 16,500 4,400 Aschaffenbur 10,25060 Bundlach 2,7000 Kaiserslautern Ramstein ,21,600 122,250, Mannheim 21,000 Pir Masens 15 9,500900 Heidelberg m5,000 12,500 Schwabish i Hall 9,500 800 Iceland 4,200 azores 2,500 Italy 36,000 Greece 800 Turkey 6,000 Karlsruhe 2,800 0 few irzburg33joo 16,800 Hillesheim 3,100 2,000 Ansbach 11�600 w 4,600  �1,800 0 Grafe Wohr and Vilseck 12,000 8,500 Niernberg and i Iron 37,500 3,700 Amberg 02,500 0 Hohenfels 5,300 3,700 Schwabish Amund o 9,200 Stuttgart �32,500 5,200 i Neu Ulm 7,900 0 Augsburg Community 14,140 total of troops and others As of 1990 2,300 total of troops and others As of 1996 $ communities dropping below 250 total Augsburg 14,100 2,300 Munich �5,000 0 badt6lze 1,500 is Susan Harris draw Down estimates is John Bohmer More than 75,000 tanks trucks and other equipments of Idle at an army storage facility in Sermersheim Germany. 41,000 18,000 34,000 15,000 36,000 16,000 1990 total troops 1994 total troops 1996 total troops 66,000 27,500 35,000 14,000 23,000 9,000 total troops 1994 total troops 1996 total troops total 645,000 troops 260,000 total 245,000 troops 97,000 total 190,000 7,200 2,800 4,600 1,800 3,000 1,200 total troops total troops total troops total troops total troops total troops 1990 total troops 1994 total troops 1996 total troops 1990 total troops 1994 total troops 1996 total troops 819,000 336,000 352,000 143,000 280,000 114,000 total troops 1994 total troops 1996 total troops 4,500 2,200 2,500 1,100 2,500 1,100 total troops total troops total troops 6,000 3,000 1,900 850 1,900 850 total troops total troops total troops Community populations in England Wales Brawdy 750 0 Burton Wood 125 0 Lakenheath 11,250 11,200 Alconbury 11,000 upper heyford13,000 0 Fairford 2,600 0Greenham common 3,500 0 Chicksands 3,200 0 London 2,500 2,500 Mildenhall 7,700 9,700 Ben Waters .9,500 Ben Waters Community 9,500 total of troops and others As of 1990 0 total of troops and others As of 1996 of. Communities dropping to 250 or less is Susan Harris a the stars and stripes 17 16 the stars and stripes wednesday april 27,1994