JUNE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BUSY MONTH...

I have been busy this month. I have been busy at work and busy with life. Dee and I are in the final stages of planning the remodeling of our kitchen. After I dropped Dee off at work yesterday, I started thinking about things that have happened in the month of June in my life. A list follows:

- Three years ago this week, I reported to NRC Chicago.
- Three years ago this month, we sold our house in Metairie.
- Three years ago week, I transferred from COMNAVRESFORCOM.
- Six years ago this month the Wings won the Stanley Cup.
- Five years ago this month I reported to COMNAVRESFORCOM in New Orleans for duty.
- Five years ago this month Dee and I drove to Metairie together. Dee saw our home there for the first time this month.
- Five years ago this month, I had my outgoing change of command in Grand Rapids.
- Eight years ago today I found out that I had been selected for promotion to Commander.
- Eight years ago this month Dee and I spent a week in Australia together.
- Nine years ago this month I reported to USS JOHN C STENNIS (CVN 74) as AUXO.
- Ten years ago this month the Wings won the Cup.
- Eleven years ago this month I reported to the COMTHIRDFLT staff.
- Eleven years ago this month the Wings won the Cup.
- Eleven years ago this month Deirdre flew to Montgomery to meet me at the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College. We drove back to California together from Montgomery.
- Eleven years ago this month I completed Joint Professional Military Education Phase I at the Air Command and Staff College.
- Twelve years ago this month I deployed to the Mediterranean Ocean on the staff of COMDESRON 20.
- Sixteen years ago this month Deirdre and I left Monterey for Newport.
- Eighteen years ago this month we arrived in Monterey.
- Twenty years ago this month we left Guam together for the last time.
- Twenty years ago this month we flew on a KC-135 from Guam to March AFB.

Yep, June has been a busy month for me.