Throwback Thursday! (Sorry for the dlayed posting.) As I mentioned this assignment was at Fort Polk, LA. I was assigned as the Installation Club Manager. This week I focus on some personal tales . I will start with the story Sheila told you to ask about earlier. One day I got a panic call from Sheila. She was in Natchitochses and after class she went to her car and discovered either locked her heys in the car or lost the keys – not sure which it was. She needed me to bring the second set of keys to her. I has an event at the Officer’s Club and although I had a club manager to handle the event, it was one that I should be at because of the nature of the event. SI I dashed off to Natchitoches with the second set of keys. Now the roads in that part of Louisiana are fairly flat ans straight so you can make pretty good time. After giving Sheila the keys, I made a quick turn around and sped back to post. Unfortunately just outside of Leesville I go stopped for speeding. When I got back to the office I was throwing a fit about getting stopped when my procurement clerk, a local lady that knows everyone, came in and aksed what was wrong. I explained and she said give me the ticket. She returned a few minutes later and told me the ticket did not exist. Remember, I told you earlier that the area was sort of corrupt. She said she called in a favor and had the ticket voided. OK, I accepted that. About two months later I got a call from an enlisted military police officer informing me they had a warrant for my arrest and would I please report to the MP station at 1 PM that afternoon to be taken downtown. I told him I would get back to him. I screemed “PEGGY,” the name of the lady that had “fixed” the ticket and who had an office right down the hall. Peggy came running into the room – “What’s the matter> “What’s the matter?” she asked. I explained the call I had just received. Off she went. A few minutes later she cam back and again said I did not have to do anything, the situation had been taken care of. I told her I hope they told the military police. With in a half hour I received a call from the Mayor apologizing for the mistake his police force had made, the error regarding the ticket had been corrected and was there anything else they could do for me. Folling tis call I was a call from the MP Desk Seargeant telling me they had received a call from the local police andunderstood the warrant was all a mistake and I did not have to report. Oh yea, talking about the community, those political gathering with all the crawfish you can eat were great. They boiled the crawfish with potatoes, covered the tables with newspaper, dumped the crawfish and potatoes on the tables and you dug in – what a feast! I mentioned that I had preferred to return to my other specialty of personnel/administrative management. This was the first time I ever tried to pull strings with regard to my assignments. Although building the Officers’ Club was interesting and the system was making a profit, I did not really want to stay at Fort Polk for the normal three year tour. So I contacted a fellow officers that attended the Adjutant General Corps Advanced Officer Course with me. He was in charge of the AG assignments branch in Washington, DC. He looked at my records and agreed “we have to get you out of there.” Within a month I received orders reassigning me to the Army Readiness Region I Headquarters at Fort Devens, MA. There were to unusual aspects of this assignment/ First, it was another stateside assignment – back to back stateside assignments were unusual. Second, it was a second tour in the program that support the Reserves and National Guard and General Fant, Commander of the Headquarters had told the folks in Washington he did not want anyone assigned that has previously worked in the program. So, my friend advised me not to mention my previous assignment until after I was on site at the new assignment. It worked. New England here we come! Collage: Top: Colonel Kasson pinning an award on Major Dan O’Sullivan. Bottom Left: Major Dan O’Sullivan hard at work in the office. Bottom Right: Dan O’Sullivan and Little Bit (who is not so little anymore) resting together.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:02:17 +0000
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