WORK-IN-PROGRESS: observations of an Old Army Retiree

by Roger L. Blakely Jr.

Observations of an old,retired Army man. A semi-autobiography.

69 pages, Paperback

Published March 27, 2019

About the author

Roger Blakely is a retired Army Chief Warrant Officer. Roger spent six months at an Army airfield in Kuwait, 9 miles from the Iraq border during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the desert.
Roger served in the Army for over thirty years with assignments in Germany, Kuwait, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Alabama and other interesting places and draws upon his extensive military background when writing his novels. When he's not working on his latest novel, he plays a lot of on-line chess, takes his friends on adventures at a nearby shooting range, dabbles in flying lessons at the LaCrosse, Wisconsin airport, takes the occasional skydive from 14,500 feet, walks the occasional half-marathon or 5-K,visits museums and antique stores, visits some great Army and Navy and Air Force and Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans at the local Veterans Administration Hospital (nursing home wing),bowls with his "bowling buddies," and was an avid kick boxer until he crushed and dislocated his left shoulder in an accident in early 2009.

Roger and his two cats, Jersey and Holstein, reside in the town of Huber Heights, Ohio.