View a eulogy for Richard Elmer Bauchspies, USMA '58, who passed away on March 16, 2009.
Richard Elmer Bauchspies
West Point, 1958
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Joseph M. Mazurek, COL USAR (Ret.) on April 12, 2010:
| I served with COL Bauchspies in 1976-78 at Fort Greely, Alaska. He was Commandant of the Northern Warfare Training Center and I was a new 2LT on my first duty assignment. Being a small Post, the junior officers had opportunity to mingle with the more senior officers with more frequency than would have otherwise been the case. I certainly benefited from and appreciated my contacts with COL Bauschpies. I recall he had a wry sense of humor, even when he suffered an unfortunate accident on a glacier that resulted in the fracture of both his arms. Although I never saw him again after our time in Alaska I certainly remember him and regret his passing. Rest in Peace Sir. |
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