Korea, Oslo to Codsall – 1972
Pam and I were to be married Labor Day weekend 1971 prior to my deployment to Vietnam. She was a nanny to Lieutenant Colonel Tony Spackman, the British Liaison Officer at Fort Sill. We met in late summer 1970 at the Artillery Hunt, where I was riding to train for the US Modern Pentathlon Team.…
Flying with Kay – 1975
“Man, you should have seen the babe the Old Man picked up yesterday!” “Yeah, she was gorgeous, but she’s enlisted. A Platoon Sergeant. I hope he doesn’t get in trouble for that.” “I thought he was supposed to be married. I wonder if his wife knows about her.” “From the way they got along, you…
Twelfth Man – 1984
Back in 1984 I was in my fourth year of what eventually became a twenty-five-year career as a Lincoln Mercury dealer in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks were an expansion franchise owned by the Nordstrom’s and, despite a respectable won-loss record with Jim Zorn at quarterback and Steve Largent pulling down his passes, they were…
U.S. Military Academy Admissions Stories – 1976-2000
One of the jobs I had in the Army Reserve was an Attachment to the United States Military Academy as a Military Academy Liaison Officer, in addition to being Assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District. I worked in Western New York centered in Rochester with two other more senior officers at…
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Decoys – 1974
I served in Korea in 1974-75 as the Battalion Signal Officer for the 1st Battalion 31st Field Artillery, an Honest John Rocket Battalion located at Camp Stanley, Ui Jong Bu, Republic of Korea (ROK). In November of 1974 I had occasion to be at nearby Camp Casey for the visit of President Gerald…
Christmas in Korea – 1973
How to celebrate Christmas in a non-Christian country? Because I had showed up in South Korea unauthorized with only a suitcase of clothes https://thedaysforward.com/second-infantry-division-education-program-1973/, there were few options for decorations or familiar Christmas trimmings. It was hard to get to the big PX in Seoul, so it wasn’t possible to depend on that as a…