Best Moment Deputy Commander for Administration for largest free-standing Health Clinic in the Army. Got to hang with Brothers Craig Floro, Tom Bailey and Vinny Carranza. We lived across from the medical clinic on Schofield Barracks in an old, but spacious concrete home with palm trees and bird of paradise plants in the yard. We were located about a 15 min drive from the Hawaii's North Shore that was mostly pristine and home to the big world level suffering contest. At Schofield there was an Olympic-size outdoor pool and the PX was walking distance from our home. We had lots of visitors on this tour and enjoyed them all. Couldn’t believe Evi’s elder antes even came from Germany! I ran the administrative side of the mega-clinic and on occasion visited our small clinic on the big island of Hawaii. I also subbed on occasion for the XO and Chief of Staff at Tripler Medical Center located in Honolulu. We helped medically deploy the 25th Infantry Division to Afghanistan and Iraq combat theaters of operations. The last time the division deployed as a whole unit was to Vietnam in the 1960s, so the going was hard on all. Evi and I spent most weekends on Waikiki Beach, Bellows Beach, out on the ocean or swimming in the military pools and hanging with friends. In this assignment I was also selected to the rank of Colonel, Resident Senior Service College and Brigade Command. HOW DID WE EVER SCORE THIS ASSIGNMENT - TRULY AMAZING!
