Following the all things must pass theme of my blog at the moment, today saw the final day that Major Vince Mucker had to report to his current perilous command of Assistant Professor of Military Science at the University of Santa Clara. He has done well there, winning the award for best recruiting officer in the world (i.e. the USA) and getting another nice medal for meritorious service. Strangely he seemed to want to get away from Santa Clara quicker than from Iraq...
A crowd of us met up at the Pyramid Brewery to toast his new lifestyle, which includes a stint learning Russian in Monterey, a couple of years abroad, an army-sponsored masters degree in the US and then a posting to Moscow (or possibly Turkmenistan) as a high-level military diplomat.
Vince Mucker and diplomacy - words you don't often see written that close together. But when you live with Christine and Claire I guess these skills become second nature. I have no doubt that Russo-American relations will soon be in very good hands. Either that or we'll all be incinerated in nuclear armageddon. Probably stemming from an argument about the Chicago Cubs' chances of ever winning a World Series.
Retired from teaching, but always happy to give a lecture.
One of these two will soon be defining US foreign policy.
