Boogie 'til You Bounce The military adventures of Preston V. McMurry III
My life and adventures in the U.S. Army, National Guard and Reserve -- from basic training at Fort Gordon, to Airborne School at Fort Benning, to Fort Bragg, to "Urgent Fury" in Grenada, to Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Provide Comfort in Kuwait and Iraq during the first Gulf War, to Joint Endeavor in Bosnia, and beyond.
Hat Trick
Specialist McMurry Goes to Grenada: I lost my operational cherry on Operation Urgent Fury. Because I wrote this from memory, it is short. With pictures and text, it makes for a quick 10 minute read.
From Green Bay to the Persian Gulf: The 432nd Civil Affairs Company in Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Operation Provide Comfort (the Kurdish refugee relief after the Gulf War) in 1991. Includes official unit history; magazine & newspaper articles; my letters; and links to other related sites. The Rub Al Khali of Desert Storm sites.
Green Bay to Bosnia: On Christmas weekend, December, 1995, the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, was mobilized for duty in the ex-Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Operation Joint Endeavor completed my operational hat trick. This site is dedicated to that mobilization.
About Me
Mountain Eagle VI: My annual Reserve training in sunny Hohenfels, Germany. (December, 1997)
McMurry's Military Biography: As everyone knows, good war stories don't always involve wars ...
Other Stuff
Military DictionaryMilitary Links"B-17: Queen of the Skies" (B17QotS) is an out-of-print Avalon Hill board game that simulates the World War II Allied strategic bombing campaign over Germany, in the form of a solitary B-17F "Flying Fortress". If you have seen "Memphis Belle" or "Twelve O'Clock High", you get the idea. Includes the Avro Lancaster, B-24 "Flying Boxcar", other variants, and the Emulator Project, wherein I am converting the board game to a Visual Basic application. I am thinking about doing v2.0 in a cross-platform web-based technology. Probably PHP.
