Mr. Koenig has offered to share... Well, I think he describes it better that I can:

"In 1982 there was a Brigade newspaper called the Five by Five. A monthly 14 page newspaper that won "Best" in it's class, for all of Europe. I saved and have all 12 issues (Jan-Dec) of 1982.
Do you think it would be interesting to have one of those months linked (cover and 13 pages) on your site?"

The following 2 images are courtesy of Brian Klein.
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The following 2 images are courtesy of Scott Fagan.
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The following 19 images are courtesy of Ed Hawks.
Ed was kind enough to provide descriptions for most of his photos.
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"My wife Marcia and I lived off base in an apartment in Hattersheim. This was taken at Thanksgiving 1985 with our B co, 17th Signal TASS Maintenance Squad and two friends from the barracks. Starting at left back going counter clockwise are: John Newkirk, Marcia Hawks, Ken_____, Bob Schlosstein, Eric Theisen, Roger Wroblewski. We still use those plates today."

Hattersheim is south/west of Hoechst a train stop distant.
Interesting to note that Bob's last name means "Closed Stone" or "Closed Cup".

     
"Grosser Feldberg Mountain Top in the Taunus Mountains. Most people remember seeing them to the north of Hoechst but I doubt many actually went up there. Since I had a car (POV) I often took rides up there. It was a beautiful 45 minute drive from our apartment in Hattesheim. I really enjoyed the views from up there."

The Army tent and deuce-and-a-half photo sure brought back the memories! Note what looks like a commercial antenna pole in the background.
Google Earth shows Feldberg to be sourth-west of Hoechst, so I am looked in the wrong area I guess.

"View off our south east deck towards Hoechst and Frankfurt."

"I saw this car while at class one night in Wiesbaden and left a note on the windshield. 6 months later an Air Force LTC calls me and says he is ready to sell the car. His neighbor said they saw his daughter driving it at 110 mph on the Autobahn. We got it for $1500 and brought it back home with us. 1965 Mustang with a 289."

   
"Trip to Garmish with George Reams, girl friend and Marcia. Drove down in a snowstorm and almost wiped out on the autobahn but we made it. Great day of skiing. Went up to the Zugspitze also in pics 2 and 3."

I think I knew that girl in the middle!

" The 17th signal Battalion offered a trip to soldiers for $100, 5 days of skiing, food, lodging and transportation to stay at the General Walker Hotel in Bertschesgaden during the winter of 1986. It was an awesome 5 days of skiing at a different ski area in Austria each day."

The following photos were taken during that trip.

"This is us on the bus going down."

"L to R, I think Donald Walker, Eric Theisen and Ed Hawks."

The owner of these photos is on the right.

"Donald? Walker. I believe he was from Washington State and was a very good skier. He also was great at soccer and played on our B Co. soccer team."

"This is the entire group having a blast at the bar of the General Walker Hotel. The General Walker Hotel was severely bombed during the air raids of Obersaltzberg, but the Americans rebuilt it and used it for an Armed Forces Recreation Center Hotel. It was a really nice place and we also got to go down on a tour of the tunnels that went to Hitler's Ergo. That was a fascinating place. Some also went up to the Eagles Nest but I did not go."

The following 2 images are courtesy of Jonna Kaatz.
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The following images are courtesy of Jim Ware.

He says:
The photos I have are HHC 17th Signal Bat. 89 to 91.

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"Andy Stevens aka Macho Man Randy Savage."

(They still had those same curtians from the 70's?)

"Jim Ware and Robert Laabs on the first floor where HHC 17th Sig Bat. Was still sort of HHC 22ND Sig Brigade."

(Same wall color scheme I see.)