Mike Horton:  

A short story of what I've been up to since finishing school. After not being able to convince my dad to delay retirement by a year so I could graduate with everyone else, I ended up having to go to KS to do that. I knew quite a few people at Southeast from my dad having been stationed at the University in Wichita, so it wasn't too bad. I joined the Reserves a month before graduating and went off to Ft. McClellan in '83 for basic and returned in '84 for AIT as an MP. Both times from Jun. to Aug. The humidity really made it suck, but the low crawling through sawdust 'cause you screwed something up didn't help either. I finally had enough of school and in Mar. '87 decided I'd had enough of KS and left for active duty. Obviously, the only choice was back to Germany. So off I went to Stuttgart and the 554th MP Co until '89, after which I got sent to Sierra Army Depot and the 980th MP Co. Boy, I hated that place. In the middle of nowhere and the only fun thing to do was go to Reno, NV. From there, after catching the news about the wall coming down, I told the retention NCO Germany or bust. I found myself in the 529th MP Co in Heidelberg. Stayed there from '90 - '96. Married a German (go figure) and my oldest son was born there. Finally got tired of some of the stupid crap you find in the Army, got out and went back to KS. I was clinically brain dead when I made that decision. Spent a few months doing nothing before going to work at the Max Confinement Facility in El Dorado, KS. That's El Doraydo, not the fabled city - I'm not that lucky. I remember sitting in training and being told that 75% of us wouldn't be here past six months and dec...Expand for more