European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes pages Usa eur 2nd but unit will return to Iraq Early gis would deploy without full time off Between Tours Dod says no request has been made by John Vandiver stars and stripes Germany after Sev eral weeks of army Europe said Friday that a company of 1st armoured 2nd brigade soldiers would de ploy As scheduled in just nine months after returning from their last Iraq Pentagon officials said the decision had not been Given final if it company 1st 6th infantry regiment will do so without the full 12month dwell time called for under army the adjusted in april by defense Secretary Robert requires soldiers to deploy for 15 months instead of that three month Extension is to be offset by a so called dwell time of no less than a Usa eur officials said Friday that company a soldiers Are expected to de ploy As scheduled As part of the 2nd Bri Gade combat based in the company is part of a brigade com Bat team put on order to so the company is going to Bruce a Usa eur spokesman said but both Gates and the chairman of the joint chiefs of Marine Peter told reporters Friday that no one has asked permission to deploy the and that this permission is specifically required before the soldiers can break dwell i have not been asked to approve a unit to go Over with less than a year of dwell Gates said when asked Why he Al Lowed an exception to be made to his 12month policy for the told by a stars and stripes reporter that Usa eur has formally announced its de who was attending the news conference with his the sys tem is very precise about any unit that might go Over with less than 12 months of dwell time will specifically be brought to the Pace they will explain to him and will explain to him Why there is nobody else possible to fill that we have not yet done Pace for the soldiers of company the fact that their situation was under review brought Little Hope that a potential delay in their deployment was in the its been assumed for a said Jason who was among the company a soldiers who returned from a 13month deployment in we got the Short end of the its a Dis while the rest of the 2nd but returned from Iraq in this company fell out of sync with the rest of the brigade in the fall of 2005 when it was kept behind to serve As an augmenting Force for the 1st 1st armoured based in defense officials were prompted to look into Why the unit was not getting its full dwell time after a Reader from Baumholzer informed stripes that the unit would be getting less than a full year at Usa eur officials then asked the 2nd but to not deploy company a a unit of roughly 150 soldiers with the rest of the brigade until the unit gets its full 12 months per army Pentagon spokes Man Bryan Whitman said on May army officials said the matter was in the analysing stage and was under re View by the whole Chain of from the 1st armoured division to us a eur to european on the army explained its Posi Tion this Way the dwell time Issue is a for the Anderson but if the brigade combat teams de company a must go with stars and stripes reporter Lisa Burgess contributed to this email John Vandiver at  after 60 hands Over Babenhausen by Kevin Dougherty stars and stripes Germany hundreds of keys marked with Colo coded tags Hung in a Box near a desk where a series of documents were neatly it was around 11 Friday and Sylvia Bechtel Schneider was methodically working her Way through the carefully setting out sheets of paper for her Boss and a German official to fifteen minutes after the last pen Babenhausen Cavern a army facility for More than 60 years had been successfully returned to the Ger Man it is Quentin chief of the Mannheim real estate said to a handful of people who witnessed the Transfer from the last occupied office on located about 20 Miles South East of the Mili tary Community had been Home to americans As recently As said Nola the sub Community manager for the past two by the time Maloney there were half that and soon afterwards the Headquarters and Headquarters 41st Field artillery Bri Gade that departure was followed by More departures and soon Babenhausen landed on a base clo sure the last family left in late january the last Soldier bid the place Adieu in the face of our presence in Europe is Walsh said shortly before the signing Ceredo built More than a Century Babenhausen Cavern actually was occupied by French forces mowing world War the Ger Man army established a Hospital on the premises during world War it was used by the army As a can torment Camp for German sol for a it also served As a United nations refugee Babenhausen became a regular army Post in the Early the first artillery unit to move in was the 36th Field artillery group in recent some of the principal ten ants were the 41st Field artillery brigade the 1st 27th Field artillery regiment and the 77th maintenance and there were air defense artillery batteries on theres a lot of history Here from the said Gary Mcgowan of the directorate of Public works in nearby Darms As we the Community definitely feels the last the mayor of babes Reinhard Esti mated that americans annually pumped about into the local while the which covers nearly 400 now becomes the property of the Federal Rupprecht said Lon term plans for the area would probably include a mix of housing and Light the estimated value of the residual improvements to the prop erty Over the years is about Bechtel Schneider the figure will Likely drop when German and Ameri can negotiators sit Down to Haggle Over the final whatever the it is doubt Ful Bechtel Schneider missed any Given her staffs thorough we crawled through every she from the roof to the email Kevin Dougherty at  photos by Michael Abrams stars and stripes above shown Are some of the historic old buildings on Babenhausen the former american army base was returned to the German Federal government on left Quentin signs contracts returning Babenhausen Cavern and housing area Back to the German government on Friday As Sylvia Bechtel Schneider Stamps both Are with the installation management command real estate i theres a lot of history Here from the As we the Community definitely feels the Gary Mcgowan directorate of Public works in nearby Darmstadt