While I attended Officer candidate school (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia, one thing that we could always count on was pogey bait to lift morale. However, pogey bait was strictly…
I had a need to teach my wife how to drive while I was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado for the Precision Measurement Equipment course (calibration…
It was just after Thanksgiving, in 1982, and my wife, my daughter, and I had just packed up our van for an extended trip. We were moving from Arizona to…
After I graduated from Officer Candidate School (OCS), I was reassigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland to attend the Ordnance Officer Basic Course. While at the Ordnance Officer Basic Course,…
While I was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado for the Precision Measurement Equipment course (calibration technician course), one thing became abundantly clear to me. I needed…
During the early months of my first assignment to Korea, I spent a lot of time rushing back to Yongsan in time to make it through the gate before curfew. …
When I attended Officer Candidate School (OCS), my fellow candidates and I developed several coping mechanisms to deal with the daily rigors and stress of training. The Teaching, Advising, and…
I was traveling with my wife and daughter in my red Chevy van. We were headed across the United States traveling from the West Coast to the East Coast. I…
It had been a long grueling day at Fort Benning, Georgia. I slept most of the day in my deuce and a half while the soldiers from the Central Confinement…
There are a few times in a person’s military career when they are ecstatic beyond the ability for words to express how they feel when they are leaving a place. …