On November 13th, Lt. General James T. Conway was promoted to General (4-stars) and assumed duties as Commandant of the United States Marines.

The Chief recalling that General Conway and he both attended Roosevelt High School in St. Louis at the same time, (I graduated in ’64, Conway in ’65) dug out an old HS yearbook, and there it was, written in his own hand on the page with the basketball team, of which he was a member: “Good luck to a great guy. – Jim Conway”

There you have it! General Conway says the Chief is “a great guy”!

OK, so he wasn’t quite the USMC Commandant YET…but we’ll take what we can get. I count it a privilege to have known General Conway back in the all too distant days of youth, and based on his record and accomplishments since then, there’s definitely many reasons why he is the Commandant, and yours truly retired from the Naval Reserve as a humble Chief Petty Officer – which I nevertheless still count as no shabby accomplishment in it’s own right.

Anyway, congratulations to General Conway – he has a serious piece of work in front of him given the conditions for war, and world…or is it World War IV?