Jim Gardon:  

Dark, grainy picture from the Texas Coast (Galveston) My oldest daughter Stacy and my first Grand Child, Abby are still in the files, expecting her second the December! I HAVE REACHED THE PINNACLE OF MY ARMY CAREER! I RECIEVED MY ORDER FOR MY PROMOTION TO (FULL) COLONEL!! Life Most of you haven't seen me, well, since high school, maybe the 6th(?) reunion, or the 20th, or when I first got off active duty from the Army 81'-86', and was with the Doyle 1 FD and was working my way through college at UB. I got a nursing degree (had been a medic the last 3 years of the 7 I spent the first time) went back on active duty as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps. I served in Desert Storm, got out again in 92', moved to San Antonio (SA), TX, stayed in the Reserves, went to Afghanistan for 6 months (Jan 02' to July 02') then went directly to to Kuwait to help plan for the war in Iraq, stayed through the invasion until July 03' and after 2 years of mobilization got off active duty in Dec 03', back to SA, were I work as an ER/Trauma nurse, staying in the Reserves. I volunteered to come back out to Kuwait for a year, been here since July 06'. Returned to US June 2007. I...Expand for more