This page is constructed from a template provided by Tony Anslett’s CSS Creator. The basic CSS is structured to provide a header, a left column, a right column, and a footer. I quickly whipped up the header graphic in Photoshop Elements, and chose a “camouflage” color scheme to match the site’s contents. I also used Wyke-Smith’s “Faux Columns” technique to extend the left nav bar the length of the main content. I like the way that looks, and will try to incorporate that into future sites I build. I also created a DIV called “picture” to float an image to the right inside the main content area.
Were I to expand this page, it would be a brief rundown of my time in the U.S. Army. The narrative would be chronological, with the user clicking on the nav bar to the left to explore my time in ROTC during college, the Officer Basic Course, and the units I belonged to and Fort Lewis and Fort Knox. To the right, you’ll see a picture of me back in March 2002 (I'm on the far right.) That was the last training exercise I took part in with the best platoon I commanded. We were 3rd Platoon, Apocalypse (Alpha) Troop, 1st of the 14th Cavalry. Our nickname was Phantom Blue. I commanded Phantom Blue for seventeen months, a ridiculously long time by Army standards. We were part of the Army’s very first RSTA Squadron – Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition. This was the much-ballyhooed “Medium Weight” Brigade that was created in response to the slow movement of heavy units during operations in Kosovo. 1/14 CAV served as part of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team in northern Iraq in 2003, a year after I left the unit.