by Peter M. Kraushaar (Author)
This is the memoir of a 19 year old from the Arizona Sonoran desert, who enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1978 and landed in Schweinfurt, Germany. In this northern Bavarian city nicknamed "Stick Town" by fellow M.P.'s, he came of age quickly as he embarked on the greatest adventure of his young life. He was thousands of miles from home in Germany, where he learned about man's inhumanity to man, and all about life's truly simple pleasures. From German beer fests to exciting drug busts, from German bar maids to bar fights, and a horrifying homicide, you'll ride along with the U.S. Army 7th Corps Military Police men and women of the 793rd M.P. Batallion as they "work the road" in Schweinfurt, Federal Republic of Germany in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Author Biography
Peter Michael Kraushaar, was born in 1960 in Cincinnati, Ohio and currently resides in Washington State. Known as Mike to close family and friends, he grew up in Tucson, Arizona and graduated from Sabino High School in 1978 then served in the US Army Military Police for 3 years stationed in Northern Franconia (North Bavaria), Germany and Washington DC. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1985. Peter was employed as police officer. He served as a deputy sheriff for Multnomah County Oregon, as a US Government Police Officer, also as a radio announcer and worked at radio stations KLPX, KWFM and KSTM in Arizona in the 1980's, KUIK in Portland in the 1990's, and Internet station Radio Free Phoenix in this new century.