[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.

[Chainmail]

Oh, yes - so many stories.. Military service always has loads of stories because we are made up people, lots of people and with luck, travel all over.

I commanded a HQ Battery for while in Hawaii, when the captain battery commander was stricken with a very aggressive cancer and died, My first night in command, we had a mini-mutiny with our communicators and I had to go settle their issues and get them to get some sleep for the evening.

Fun stuff!