Dr. Edward W. Meads II

I became an artillery officer in 1982 transferring from as a an AG officer with the 63rd ARCOM HQ. I was really lucky I started working directly in the G-1 shop under Major General Fragner ( who also personally commissioned me as second lieutenant my junior year in college. He himself was an old artillery officer himself. )
Prior to graduating i knew I was not going to be a good match for the Army in the AG. So I went to General Fragner asked for a transfer to the artillery and well the rest is history.
While on active duty i had what I would call very exciting and important assignments. My first assignment was that of an Excutive officer in a battery of a one unit station station training unit. Its a 13 week course instead of the basic of only 8 weeks.
Then I left that assignment and began my work that basically set the tone for the rest of my life's work ( teaching ), I was assigned as an instructor in the artillery school. I absolutely loved it! I excelled at it! In my instructor training class, I graduated top of the the class with the score somewhere if I remember around 99 percent. They only gave certifications back then and secondary MOS Identifiers, now i understand they even have a badge showing your rating. Thats great for our your troops. I spent the bulk of my career Active / IMA / RESERVES / IRR teaching and training and loved every minute of it . I tried one day to count how many I was responsible for for there training, l lost track in the thousands. I like to think I had some effect on the demise and prepardness against our major adversaries, Russia, China , North Korea, Iran, later Iraq, Afghanistan and Communism at large.