Think there might have been a better outcome?
I heard a lot of good things about Colonel Tedesco.
Believe it or not, I made the drive from Kleber Kaserne to Spangdahlem in 55 minutes (approx. 90 miles, of which maybe 60 was autobahn back then...lol). One of my passengers was the new S-3 who had never been in Germany. It all started when a meeting wrapped up at 5, and he blurted out, "I promised my wife I'd be home at 6 tonight." The other passenger, who was my eventual replacement, saw the gleam in my eye and said, "you shouldn't have said that."
I had a Volvo 242 GT, my favorite car of all time. I took it up to 115 on the autobahn, and was going 70-80 on the back roads to Spangdahlem. Damn, that was fun.
Yes, jay Garner was the first military governor of Iraq after the invasion. I believe that was his last official function in the military. Tedesco was wonderful to work for, he knew his stuff, was fun and got the job done. We did not have a battalion at Spangdahlem so I didn’t get there too much. 94th Brigade was the other ADA brigade in K Town, they were at Ramstein and we were at Kleber, they had a BN there at Spangdahlem.