Jeff Beyrau:
CLASS OF 1983
Francis Howell High SchoolClass of 1983
St. charles, MO
McCluer High SchoolClass of 1983
Florissant, MO
Cross Keys Middle SchoolClass of 1980
Florissant, MO
Graham Elementary SchoolClass of 1976
Florissant, MO
Jeff's Story
Life
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Military
Attended basic training at Ft.Dix New Jersey in the spring of 89. At 24 years old, I wasn't the youngest private. I'd been jumping from job to job so the military seemed like a decent option.
After basic training, I attended AIT at Ft. Belvoir Virginia for my new job as a turbine generator mechanic. After completion of my training, I was sent to Ft. Ord California. Much to my surprise, there were no turbine generators at my assigned unit or the entire post for that matter. So I was dubbed a diesel generator mechanic in support of 8th Evac hospital. Numerous training exercises and desert shield and storm deployments later, my time was about up at Ft. Ord and so was my enlistment. I was informed by my career counselor that I'd have to re-classify in a new MOS in order to stay in the military. So I chose Bradley turret mechanic. I had very little idea what a turret was and certainly had never been on a Bradley before. Off to Ft. Knox for just over 3 months of training, then my next Assignment in Korea ( Pelham ). Fortunately for me, there was a private that had an idea of what he was doing with a Bradley and he was able to show me the ropes to me more self sufficient in repair of the equipment. 1 year later, I was off to my next assignment, Ft. Stewart.
Upon arrival at Ft. Stewart, Saddam was acting up again and DA decided it was a good idea to send a Brigade from Ft. Stewart to the desert and try to deter this aggression. Turns out, that's the unit I was assigned to. 2/7 infantry had just finished a 90 day rotation in Kuwait for intrinsic action and the Army thought their recent knowledge of the terrain and equipment would make for a speedy re-deployment back to the region. Turns out the Army was right. The deployment went so well, it only lasted 31 days....Expand for more
Shortest deployment I've ever been on. So back to Stewart we went. Thankfully there were no more war deployments, just a few NTC's and back yard BBQ's at Stewart, to keep us occupied.
My enlistment had run short again I chose to PCS to Germany in conjunction with my new 6 year enlistment.
Baumholder Germany was go-go-go from day one, at least from the maintenance aspect. They'd just gotten back from their initial deployment to the Balkens when I'd arrived to 4/29(4/27) field artillery. So a year of stabalization was in order for all units on post. After a year, a mission to head back to the Balkens arose and I accepted the job of NCOIC for supporting my Fire support soldiers. The deployment lasted 6 months and went pretty smoothly. Not too much to say about it except, I probably gave away more MRE's than most divisions eat in a year. I've never seen so much suffering ( till later ). So regardless of mission accomplishments or operational readiness of the equipment, I fed a lot of people in Bosnia :)!
After Germany it was was back to Ft. Stewart ( vicious cycle developing ). Off to another FA unit, 1/41 FA. New issue of equipment with the Bradley FIST vehicle and I was a lot happier working with equipment that was much newer than what I'd seen in Germany. A year into the tour, our unit had come up for a rotation in Kosovo. So I was off to the Balkens again. This time to camp Bondsteel. My unit didn't bring their Bradleys and I was pretty much reduced to a wheel maintenance/support individual. 6 months of not leaving the camp much, except to guard some church for 3 or 4 days at a time and a few TCP's that needed manning, I was at Bondsteel most of the time. After that deployment OIF 1 kicked off and I was chosen to run the motorpool in the units absense. It was hard to hear about the war and all things my unit was going through from so far away. But I managed and about a year after their return, I decided to leave the Army and get a job with United Defense, supporting the same division I'd just left, as a civilian. ( Much better choice )
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