Military Pictures
From My Career & My Life

1975 MCRD San Diego Boot Camp Photo.
I'm in the first row, third from left.

81mm Mortar Class platoon of 1995.
I'm the platoon sergeant sitting second from right.

Others in the platoon picture are:
Sgt. Benjamin I. Gentry III (Arkansas), Sgt. Victor J. McCray (Virginia),
Spec. Charles E. Blevins (Arkansas), Spec. James F. Cody (S. Carolina),
Spec. Terry W. Davis (Arkansas), Spec. Rickie L. Haynes (Alabama),
Spec. Jody P. Hendon (Arkansas), Spec. Jeremy D. Meiers (Massachussets),
Spec. Anthony F. Pagano (Arkansas), Spec. John Pemberton (Oklahoma),
Spec. Daniel F. Rollenhagen (Nebraska), Spec. Willie S. Twyman (Alabama),
Spec. Leonard H. Winkler III (Oklahoma), PFC Mehujael D. Eason (Massachusetts),
and PFC William Shaulis Jr. (Maryland)

Honduras, Central America, Staging Area.
(Facing from left) MSgt B.T. Walker; SFC Larry Massanelli; SFC John Nolen.
That's me at the far right, SFC Rutherford, listening to a war story.

U. S. Army Soldier Support Center,
Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana
Advanced NCO Course Class pic. I'm second from left, front row/

Personnel Staff NCO Course Class Picture.
I'm in the third row, third from left.

Larry Zimmerman, Tom Rutherford, & Eugene Renfrow
at a tailgate party for the Advanced NCO Course
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Battery C, 30th Battalion, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, January 1944
Captain Landon A. McCollister, Commanding
1stSgt. Jack Abbott, Battery First Sergeant

The giant inflatable (hospital) staging area in Panama.

Jungle Operations Training Center, Ft. Sherman, Panama.

I still glow in the dark at times.

View from the barracks at MCB Camp Zukeran, Okinawa.

Back of snack bar at MCB Camp McTureous, Okinawa.

Chagres River, Panama.

Fort San Lorenzo, Panama.

Postcard from Jim Tom Wells
from France during WWII.

Another postcard from Jim Tom Wells
from France during WWII.

The cemetery at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Artillery Display at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Reenactment at the Ft. Washita, OK, HQ building.

Gate to Ft. Washita, Oklahoma.

SGT Terry Ham checking out the ruins of
Ft. San Lorenzo above the Chagres River while on break from JOTC Training in Panama.

Me getting an award from BrigGen. Harold A. Hatch in 1977
at Marine Corps Base Headquarters, Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan.

The three musketeers of Recruiting Station Dallas, Texas
(from left) Sgt. Leo Bueno, GySgt. Danny Dickey, GySgt. Pat Currier.

SFC Tom Rutherford
midway through
his Army career.

Tom Rutherford
before his
Physical Fitness Test.