Best Friends Don’t know what to say except this was three crazy ass years!!! I became an Instructor for the Army Medical Department’s Officers Basic and Advanced Course. I joined a group of officers who it turned out where the best I have ever served with. Scott Heintz, Craig Floro, Brian Commons, Dave Patterson and Don Hall became best friends for life. Truly the most gifted, professional and dedicated men I ever served with. Scott and I also had flight slots so were able to check out and aircraft and fly missions on a regular basis – crazy. Scott and I also attended Airborne School at Ft Benning GA because there where jump slots as instructors. 34 and jumping out of planes – ouch! I earned my Expert Field Medical Badge ( only 14 out of 254 cadidates got the bage, but I was fully prepared for this one - and got it on my first try!). I also deployed to the Gulf War with the 236th Air Ambulance out of Germany. Upon my redeployment I served one more year in the Military Science Division and then was selected to attend The Army Baylor University Program in Healthcare Administration. It required an intense two years of graduate academic work crammed into one year and then a residency follow on year and yes – the big paper.