What do consider to be your greatest professional accomplishment (military or civilian)?

I forgot to add my Air Medal awarded 1972 in Viet Nam

Never losing a Soldier and receiving the Transportation Corps Saint Christopher Medal

Arrest and conviction of Child Killer and Rapist Homer (Butch) Teel in 1986. https://law.justia.com/cases/tennessee/supreme-court/1990/793-s-w-2d-236-2.html

Arrest and conviction of child killer and rapist Homer (Butch) Teel in 1987. https://law.justia.com/cases/tennessee/supreme-court/1990/793-s-w-2d-236-2.html

Keeping my sanity after almost 24 years and retiring!

My greatest Military Accomplishment was helping my fellow NCO's bring our Soldiers back from war alive.

Having both my sons follow in my footsteps to become Field Artillery Officers in the Army!

I must let this out there. I am absolutely livid that a SFC, a fellow NCO, would dare even hint that I did not hold my position as a Plt Sgt. I respect this site and I don't expect that kind of behavior here. But since you are either a new era NCO and have no respect for your brothers or you are a retired soldier from years gone by. I rather doubt years gone by as SSG's have been plt sgts since Vietnam. But what I'm saying is if you meant it as a malicious remark and you are not even service verified on the sight that maybe you should think twice before being rude and an a$$**** and explain yourself

I don't think a lot of people truly have a life altering moment, and even if you do, there are usually only 1 or 2 times it happens; but I had one while I was deployed in Afghanistan.

I was a medic and 20 years old at the time. There was this one Afghan soldier who was really cool with all of us. He was also medic/mortarman, and spoke almost as good English as some of the interpreters. He was also a really good soldier, something rare in the ANA. We called him BoomBoom

One day the ANA went on mission without US troops and got hit. BoomBoom was hit with an IED and was peppered from head to toe with shrapnel. They came back to the COP, and we started treating the casualties. I saw BoomBoom and started working on him.

A few months before we went back to the states, he came back garbed in white robes or w/e. He saw me and shook my hand and thanked me, and he said he owed me a drink.

That moment changed my life forever, and it made me want to pursue a career where I can make people whole again and I'm in college to become a robotic engineer so I can make limbs and machines to give people a second chance at normal lives they wouldn't necessarily have.

Being dad to my daughter and helping her through her problems.