Roommates

By Frank Partlow

Gordon Livingston and Frank Partlow first met when they were assigned as roommates on the first day of their first academic year at the US Military Academy, West Point, New York, in August, 1956. They had just completed eight weeks of grueling field training and acclimation known to West Pointers everywhere as "Beast Barracks." They faced a daunting freshman (Plebe) academic schedule incorporated into the sixteen-hour days of further military training and upper class harassment which would last until June, 1957. For the next three years, their lives were entwined as roommates, friends, advisors and brothers in arms. This memoir is written to make the case that these formative years, when each of these boys of 17 were transitioning into military officers, also had major impacts on the remainder of their highly successful professional and personal lives. Gordon earned awards for valor in combat before becoming an accomplshed psychiatrist and best selling self-help author of "Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart," which has been translated into 22 languages. Frank, this book's author, retired from the Army as a Brigadier General with over 30 years' service, including combat, teaching, international negotiation, command, intelligence and senior staff positions in Washington DC, Europe and the Middle East. In retirement he has been a newspaper columnist, business owner, Chief of Staff of a federal agency and Executive Director of Nevada's Spending and Government Effeciency Commission.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539787443
• ISBN13: 9781539787440
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.0"