For your interest, my military service includes the following:
* Drafted enlisted service as a combat medic--two years.
* First SDA To serve in a National Guard unit (D.C.) as a Chaplain.
* Service as a Chaplain in an Army Reserve unit.
* Active-duty Army Chaplain for 18 years.
* First Army Chaplain in modern times to go into combat with a COED unit.
* Teaching faculty at the US Army Chaplain School--probably the first SDA.
* Retired with a Légion of Merit among my awards.