One thing about cleaning out a room, especially the "Army Room," you are almost certainly going to run into an old box or two (or more) of photos. And although I was not very good at writing down the names of all the soldiers in the pictures I took over a 38-year career, I certainly took lots and lots of pictures and, for now at least, remember the events like they were yesterday. Some of these kinds of things aren't done any more in the Army, and that's a shame because we really built some pretty solid teams this way. 
These pictures were taken at Ft. Campbell, KY. We were conducting some training there back in the late 80's and had the opportunity to take advantage of this leadership course the post had just completed. It's kinda like a big jungle jim course built around certain leadership/team leader tasks and some Soldier tasks. It was pretty cool, and our teams and squads went through it very successfully. The individual stations required creative thinking and leadership and were "run" against the clock. All in all, the teams and squads had a great time doing this and really came together in a lot of respects -- in ways that we couldn't at other posts or at our home station.
I don't know if any of the Soldiers in these pictures will even see this entry, but if any should, I hope they would send me the names of some of them.
Most of these same soldiers were with me when we were gone for Desert Storm in 1990. Those sure were good troops.
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's back into a cold, dirty pit of slop water in front of your fellow squad members.
Hooah
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