James Massey:  

Military I've made it up the ladder to the 8th step of Master Sergeant and was selected for lateral promotion to 1SG and to GOD, I'm thankful. The best is yet to come..from basic training and advanced training in the red clay of Fort McClellan, Alabama to deployment number "whatever" amidst the sands of Kuwait and Iraq, it has been a journey that will never be forgotten. From Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Cuba, Korea, Germany, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Croatia, Kuwait and Iraq (3 more times), I think I may have missed my calling as a travel agent; I completed the Military Police Advanced Non-Commissioned Officer's Course in 2005 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. In 2007, I completed the Basic Crisis Hostage Negotiation Course at the Virginia State Police Academy, Richmond and afterwards, I departed on my 4th trip to the Middle East. In November, 2008, the week of Thanksgiving, I returned to the United States and I ...Expand for more