Joe B. Jackson,Murfreesboro Tn.

Job B. Jackson the former Murfreesboro, TN mayor who was buried Saturday, lead the city in an official capacity for 30 years. He was 87. His legacy will live much longer than that.  Jackson was mayor from 1982-1998.

Jackson had many accomplishments, such as a superb college athlete, self-made businessman, World War II veteran ( Third Marine Division ) and successful political figure.  Jackson was a humble, outgoing gentleman and statesman who treated all with consummate courtesy and respect.

Jackson was a leader of many projects, with some of the most notable as the new City Hall and greenways.  The city invested in his ideas above the norm, resulting, as would be expected, in considerable debate.

I knew Joe B. Jackson for the last 10 years of his life and his three brothers and his sister. I saw him 3 days before he died, we had a good chat.  He would ask me if I had the oil tanker filled with up of oil and I said yes it is in Kuwait City but I need a $850,000 down payment.  Joe said "let's call my brothers and sister they have all the money." Ha Ha Ha.

When you go to Murfreesboro you will most likely see the Joe B. Jackson Parkway.

Good by Joe B. and God bless!

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Team Work

We were here to train a new Iraq Army in infantry, medical, signal, administration, transportation, and maintenance motor pool. My position was to train them in maintenance.
The personnel I worked with had prior experience training other
personnel and this was a great asset. With a two man team, we
took on different tasks and came up with a training program.

The training program originated from the our military program.
After all this was done, we had to have the program translated
into Iraq Arabic. We had a group of interpreters and translators
that would assist us in making this transition happen. Now we
are ready to start classes! As we received the students we
interviewed them to see their potential. These students were very knowledgeable in the field of mechanics. That was a bigplus to us. Some of the students had been under the reign of
Sedum’s military, and some worked as mechanics in the civilian garage.

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Sun Set

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New Home

OUR NEW HOME

This place was not home, it looked as though we had been dropped off in a time zone. The camp site was built in l986
but was abandoned for about 20 years, here we are going to restore it to a military training site.

What a nightmare! The living conditions were bad (18 men to one big room), no privacy, we to share the showers, drinking water only from bottled water, food was from the Army (T-rations in a can, which they heated and served hot to us). After about a week getting accustomed to the heat, and getting acquainted with other contractors, we started to put together our training programs.
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How It All Started

Sometime in July 2003, I was going home after work and got a phone call from Vinnell Company by a person by the name of Glenn.` He asked me if I would be willing to go to Iraq. He said the job would consist in building the new Iraqi Army. He advised me that he got my information off MilitaryHire.com (which just a few months before I had put my resume on their web site).

My answer was “how soon do you need me?” His reply was “this weekend”. This was on a Tuesday and he wanted me to fly up to Virginia on Friday for a Saturday introduction. I made it!! We did our introduction, signed contracts and did our paperwork and headed back home on Sunday. I had two weeks to get ready for my first meeting at Ft. Benning. Georgia.

While there we continued our training, which lasted about ten days, then we headed to the Atlanta airport and flew to London, then to Kuwait. We stayed in Kuwait at a fancy hotel for three days while the personnel arranged our flight into Iraq. When it is time to go, we went to the military airstrip in Kuwait. There we boarded a C-130 aircraft with baggage and personnel all packed in the aircraft, and it was very hot!

After a few hours in the air, we started our decent into Anaconda. That place was known as Bald, Iraq. Here we met up with an Army convoy to escort us to Camp Caldwell (sometimes called Kirkush, near the Iran border).