This section describes the reason I wrote the book like I did. Had some real difficulty trying to pick the best way to describe events that were happening simultaneously in the latter part of the book, but in the beginning of the book, I had to describe things in sequence, or it wouldnt make any sense. I’ll cite some interesting situations from my humble beginnings, and my meteoric rise to humble endings, but I promise you, this is not some self-flagellating exercise. These are the things that I thought back on as I went through the year of training Iraqis, things I had to ask myself over and over. “Why do we do things that way, and will it work here? Will some of it work here?” If you’re not familiar with the air force, you wouldn’t get some of the conclusions that I’ve drawn; so, even though the narrative may seem to be a self-licking ice cream cone, this is an attempt to condense twenty years of experience into the first part of this book. The second half of the book was much more difficult to write. Many of those main accomplishments evolved over the same period. I wanted to follow the individual threads over their entirety, so the reader (assuming there are any) can get the impact of the vignettes standing alone. That was how they occurred to me. I tried to write it chronologically, but it became so confusing that I would forget what my point was. And I was there. So the second half of the book is really written as a series of closely related stories that probably took place in overlapping timelines. I’ve chosen to describe each thread in the rope individually, versus trying to describe the whole rope. Hopefully, you will still see the ties that bind us at the end.
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