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Stryker soldiers learning about life in their new home, Germany

Jun-29-2006 » Filed Under: 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment

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By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes

VILSECK, Germany — Spaghetti ice cream is one of the European culinary delights 2nd Cavalry (Stryker) Regiment soldiers learned about during Head Start classes at Vilseck Elementary School this week.

“We tell them it is frozen spaghetti but actually it is just vanilla ice cream that we put through a press so it looks like spaghetti,” explained Head Start teacher Nina Kuhn, one of a group of instructors running 10 classes a week at the school for 3,500 2nd Cav troops, who started to arrive here in bulk from Fort Lewis, Wash., this week.

Kuhn said some of the soldiers arriving in Germany have strange ideas about their new home.

“One guy asked me if Dresden (a German city destroyed by fire bombing in World War II) had been rebuilt. The German ‘economic wonder’ was years ago. Normally you expect people already know about it,” she said.

Head Start teacher Tanja Blakeney, who is married to a retired U.S. soldier, said she ran classes for 2nd Cav soldiers for the past six weeks. Classes are held eight hours a day for four days, she said.

“Most of the soldiers want to know about travel sites, language, culture and customs. And a lot of them want to know about Internet service,” she said.


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