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I essentially ran away from home and enlisted in the Army as a Private during the Korean War. By the time the war ended I had been promoted to Corporal and then applied for and was selected to attend the tough Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. I was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery on 18 May 1954 and progressed pretty rapidly in rank from there. Here is my official photo taken when I commanded the Army's Personnel Command as a Major General, 32 years later. I subsequently worked for Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger in 1986 and 1987, as his Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) and retired in September 1987 after having commanded at every rank from Second Lieutenant to Major General. After my Army retirement, I started my own National Defense Research company and sold it 13 years later but continued to work for it in a continuing research and analysis capacity for several years. I "really retired" in 2003 although I still do some selective consulting with the government and industry.
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