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That's not truein all cases and it does lead in weaker relationships to divorce, if you have a00:38:00needy spouse who has to have you there all the time, the military is probablynot for you. It's had the commensurate amount of growth that Columbus hashad. We got to get them out of thepacking crates, if you will.00:43:00

We did a couple of big gunnery exercises in Grafenwöhr and shot high in the

squadron.

They just wipe out the OP4 and we get to theafter-action review and they're like, "Yeah we couldn't get through the defenseand the air cav troops were really spectacular at this rotation." I was like, "Yes!"

I think in my crew I'm the only one who's defeated the OP4 at both the national

training center and at Hohenfels I'll put that as a feather in my cap.

I was a captain, and people I was commanding were lieutenants

and sergeants and enlisted soldiers, we were just taking in the moment. At the time, he was a lieutenant colonel, and he was the armorbranch manager. I had26 days left.

That enabled us to do a lot of fun things. Iprobably would have gone there but the program wasn't ...

In order to become a generalofficer or a flag officer later in your career, you have to serve in a jointassignment somewhere during your career. We decided to basically splurge and see Europe upfront, and it wasgreat. That two years was really neat in that regard.

TP: What was happening globally. It was really a big responsibility for me to end up taking charge of00:33:00the families and the rear detachment, and the post when the squadron deployed.One of the events that happened there, the squadrons at Hohenfels doing trainingand 58th Engineer Company, our engineer company was doing training withcratering charges.

I remember we're not even to the first01:31:00fuel stop and I'm feeling the dizziness and the tingling and I know I'm going tothrow up, and I'm with Chad Smith, renegade six, the Romeo Troop Commander,Captain, just pinned on Colonel by the way, this last week. That all came after this. Be there next week, it's a lot of fun."

The next week, I show up, a little bit late, and there's a long table, a screen

on one end, on the left.

Unlike some other desk officers, I had pretty

predictable hours. Becauseafter that time was over in '97 I went to the Pentagon, as Special Assistant tothe Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, the J5, on the joint staff. It has grown incredibly sinceI was there. He's got higher level functions that noone else can perform.

I think Ihad the right skill set to do it, and it also, career-wise, it's one of thosepositions that sets you up for any number of things that can come later.

It was during that time ...