Mike Bullock:
CLASS OF 1970
Beaver River High SchoolClass of 1970
Cfb medley, AB
Mike's Story
Well, 'life' has been interesting. As is its wont.
After High School I had options of university in either AB or NB. I chose the latter for a change of scenery and, with a bent to either Forestry or History, I went with a degree in History. Lots of side stories to that. But I likely chose the right option, and to this day have a bookcase+ of readings on who we are, where we've come from, and what we have done. It is right up there with my other themes of climbing the Himalayas, or polar exploration. The common theme: is what man can actually do, against the most extreme challenges. [But do not get me going on either economics or current day politics... 'man' comes off rather poorly, particularly here in Canada.]
With a relatively useless piece of parchment, and tired of living off canned spaghetti, on graduation I took the easy/fastest/most familiar way out and joined the military. Automatically the Air Force. But after a couple of postings that was boring, shifted to the Army, and then never ...Expand for more
looked back. I became a bit of a household name. Some 25 postings over 40 years. Always challenging the system. And usually either standing up new units, or removing old ones. My field was 'logistics' but that didn't hold true for a large chunk of my time. Spanning airfield ops into airborne into armoured. Pretty great stuff and endlessly fascinating; until the last couple of postings at NDHQ in Ottawa (ugh). I will take the desert any day, over being in the head shack in Ottawa... the desert is by far the cleaner environment, regardless of sandstorms. Our bureaucracy and its accompanying politics are really quite deflating, to say the least. Disgusting is rather more clear. And then there are other terms.
I got an extra 5 years out of the system, but inevitably had to get out. Retired into a custom-built log house down in the Maritimes (my wife lives in Europe, so it was a matter of time zones). But, dammit! Really miss the mountains and can't believe I'm not in the Rockies.
Life goes on.
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