It was a prudent first career in that I wanted with certainty only one thing, to get out of Ohio, and the Colonel might hire me anywhere in the world.

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And the military aide I have with me today is a guy named Lieutenant Colonel Dave Kalinske.

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However, one colonel in Iraq told me his best captains are leaving and the middling ones are taking the bonus.

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