Best Moment Reported to the 95th Combat Support Hospital in Heidelberg in June 1993 after completing the academic phase of the Army-Baylor Masters Program. My first year in this assignment was spent completing the residency portion of the Baylor Program, which also included in researching/writing a Graduate Management Project. The commander was COL Sam Wilson and I worked directly for COL Jim Heckert. Both men were exceptional, and I loved working with and for them. I was the first student to ever get to do a Baylor Residency at the Heidelberg Hospital. I was also the firstin my Baylor class to finish my GMP which had to do with running models across the hospital to find the optimal way to increase patient access to every clinic. COL Wilson used the study to justify major shifts of departments and renovation projects across the hospital. In this year I also started and finished Command and General Staff College by correspondence – which I had put off for years, but which now I was barely able to complete before my timeline requirement ran out. In August of that year I was able to fly back to Texas and walk across the Baylor stage with Craig Floro and my now boss Gary McNeil. I also moved out of government quarters after splitting with ex and as fate would have it, Mike and Beth Messenger who I had known for may years moved into those same quarters. Mike was a Chaplin being stationed in Heidelberg. I moved to an apartment outside of Heidelberg and truly enjoyed it. I also bought a new BMW M3 and drove it everywhere for the next four years. Year two and three in this assignment I was the Chief, Clinical Support Division at the hospital which was now designated the Heidelberg MEDDAC. Soon after starting this job I met Evi who was working in the logistics division of the hospital. What an incredibly wonderful time we had and even managed to take a trip to Egypt and cruse down the Nile, Sky in Austria, Christmas in Vienna, party in Paris just to mention some of our travels. A very high point was coordinating with my sister Sherrie and bringing my mom to Germany for a visit. She had never driven a car and been on an airplane. We showed her the sites, took her to the big military ball which I was in charge of and even took her to Paris! Man, what a wonderful and life changing assignment!
