Flexible

In World War II, Lt. Joe Spaulding received the best technical training in radar that money could buy. He was ready for that special radar assignment in England. However, when he arrived there, the special radar assignment had disappeared. He was told that all the Army needed was a warm body. He had to become flexible so that he could be whatever his commanding officer wanted him to be, and he could be qualified without training with a stroke of the CO’s pen. Lt. Spaulding’s struggles were not so much with the enemy directly but with his own Army, the circumstances of war, and the elements of nature. He was one of the lucky ones who got to serve in both the European and the Pacific Theaters of War. He could only express his feelings to his wife, and she was an ocean away.…Spradlin, Joe is the author of 'Flexible ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781413799569 and ISBN 1413799566.