[Chainmail]

Which Battery did you command? Didn’t the “kiss of death” Fitrep ruin your chances?

[Night Hides Not]

It was a HQ Battery at Fort Bliss, cooks & clerks. They were mine for an hour a day. We used that for PT: 20 minutes of calisthenics, and a 2 mile run in formation. I led that every day. Our pass rate was nearly 99%. The 5 that failed passed it the second time around.

That old OER kept me from getting a Hawk or Patriot battery. I tried to snare a Chaparral/Vulcan battery, but the Old Man said I was too valuable to him as his S-4, and he was right. Higher HQ never messed with us in logistical matters. I used my accounting degree (lol, that got around fast!) and my experience as the Property Book Officer.

The only inspection I had as PBO included a 2 minute outbriefing: “Colonel, your Property Book is in better shape than when LT NHN was assigned to it.”

So many stories, interesting only to me…lol.