The page to the left appeared in the Armor School Advanced Officer Course yearbook. The hair is way too long, but heck I had just gotten out of Germany and it was '78!! The small picture shows me in the field getting ready for some tank training and the captions reads "AOAC is better than science fiction", they let us do our own captions. During this time I had lots of spare time because I had served with a real units and I "tested out" of some of the courses they were teaching , especially in the beginning. That meant I had time to spare for my fanzine and to go to cons. Some of my friends may remember mailing art, story (and money) to my "Steele Hall" address, that was the name of the student post office at Ft Knox. Knox played a big part in my fandom life. I had two tours there, both were pretty easy. I did a lot of fan activity there.
I used pencils by Jerry Collins (A real war-monger) to do some art for the yearbook, so It was no only SF fanzines that was getting my art. I guess this is a good sample of my stuff from late 70's. By the way it never got this good in the 80's, more like the 90's when the M1-A1 Abrams was standard and Desert Storm was on the horizon.
While I was in the army I spent a lot of my off-duty time drawing, going to conventions or writing. It helped in Germany during those lonely nights and when I was in the field with my company in Ft Knox, the men would be disappointed if I didn't whip out a strip on the side. Most of that ended when I got married in 1986. I guess I finally found something else to do. Then there was Tiffany, though I loved drawing for her and she thought it was neat her dad seemed to act like such a kid and sit around drawing half the time. I still did No Sex and art for the N3F, but that tended to die down until about 1990 I was almost doing no art at all. I started up again in around 1995 and still trickle some stuff out.
Units:
Left to right, my dad the SGM, Rick, my brother, my mom and me at Premisan Kasern, Germany. Rick was stationed there. I was in Baumholder and my dad was in Frankfurt. We almost had a Pvt Ryan situation with all the male members of the family at one overseas location, Luckily I had another couple brothers not in Germany, though Mike was in the army for a minute or two in California.
This is a picture from adventure training in Paris while I was with 1/68th Armor I think the year is 1976. The names I remember are SSG Ortiz (doing the rabbit ears), SGT Wombolt (getting the ears, I bought his Mustang II, Suzie Q, it was the most trouble I ever had with a car) SGT Greenwood (camera), SGT Gardner (clean-cut blond)