Alan R. Koenig:
CLASS OF 1975
Buffalo Lake High SchoolClass of 1975
Buffalo lake, MN
Alan R.'s Story
Life
The quick and dirty on ARK:
Willmar CC grad: 1978
Mankato State, professional student: 1978 to 1989, but four undergrad degrees and two minors--history, Intl'l relations, Russian, Social studies teaching.
Univ. of NE=Lincoln: Ph.D in European and mil history and Russian Lang. and lit.
Teaching at Univ. of Omaha-NE from 1997 to 1999.
Online education for UNO since 2000: American Civil War, American Mil Hist.
Various articles published, book in 2006:
"Mars Gets New Chariots: the Iron Horse in Combat, 1861-65."
More books on the way.
Military: MN Army National Guard, 1975 to 1982, armorer, OCS, artillery school, artillery officer in NG units in western MN.
Future looked bleak so I transferred to the US Army Reserve in 1982. Got orders for Russian school at Defense Lang. Institute, Monterey, CA. Grad in 1984. Inactive during Ph.D work but when we went into Bosnia in 1995 I got called up in 1996 as a historian for US European Command at Stuttgart with TDY to Bosnia. By then I was a major and after 9-11 I made Lt Col, prob...Expand for more
ably because a general officer at NORAD put in a good word for me. Anyway, I've completed many tours of duty with EUCOM, V Corps in Heidelberg (got to see the ancestral Burgstahler homestead while in GMY). After 9/11 I served at US Space Command until 03 and then went back to V Corps with temporary duty in Iraq. Finished off my Reserve career in 04-05 at NORAD in Colorado and retired on 1 May. After Hurricane Katrina hit that year LTG Honore wanted a historian to cover the huge military effort, so I applied and he selected me. Have been working at Fort Gillem (First Army HQ) since early Jan. 06 and expect to be off duty in June. My volunteers and I are working on several manuscripts on military relief efforts. If anyone wants to get published, or at least get your name in print, I've got plenty of work for you!
Oh, kudos to Mel Kriz for teaching me a very useful skill that has served Uncle Sam and I well. And to think we used to give him so much grief about NEBRASKA and then I became a Cornhusker! I always was kinda corny!
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