The beginning of
my
Life By Leonel Yanez
Graduate From
San Benito High SchoolIn
1983
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” Edward W. Howe
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
I wish I was a little kid again when all I wanted for my birthday was cupcakes for my entire class & for everyone to sing happy birthday to me.. and money never mattered because when I was little.. --» [ whatever I wanted I always got ].
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Joined the United States
Army January 23, 1984
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
“The soldier is the army.”
United States Army Field Artillery Training Center Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Private Yanez
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
United States Army Field Artillery 3rd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
“I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”
Specialist Yanez
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
United States Army Field Artillery 3rd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
Specialist Yanez
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
United States Army Field Artillery 3rd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Ah MRE’s (Meal Ready to Eat) for Lunch
Specialist Yanez
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Time to Depart from Fort Sill Oklahoma towards
Vicenza, ItalyHome of the United States Army Field
Artillery Detachment11th USAFAD
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Vicenza, Italy
Cities visited during 3 year tour Venice, Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, Rovigo, Belluno. Florence, Siena, Pisa, Arezzo, Pistoia, Prato, Lucca, Livorno, Grosseto, Massa Carrara, Rome, Milano, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Varese, Sondrio, Pavia, Cremona, Mantova, Bolzano Merano, capital of Tirol, Bressanone, Brunico and Vipiteno.
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Home of the United States Army Field Artillery Detachment
11th USAFADVicenza, Italy
“The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.”
Specialist Yanez
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Home of the United States Army Field Artillery Detachment
11th USAFADVicenza, Italy
Rome, ItalySpecialist Yanez
Americans who travel abroad for the first timeare often shocked to discover that,despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years,many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.-Dave Barry
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Home of the United States Army Field Artillery Detachment
11th USAFADVicenza, Italy
Florence, Italy
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember,
and remember more than I have seen. -Benjamin Disraeli
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Home of the United States Army Field Artillery Detachment
11th USAFADVicenza, Italy
Udine, Italy
“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”
Miyamoto Musashi
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Home of the United States Army Field Artillery Detachment
11th USAFADVicenza, Italy
Rome, Italy
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of
an army of sheep led by a lion” Alexander the Great
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Back Home in the USA
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Next Duty StationFort Hood, Texas
1st Calvary Division 1st of the 82nd Field Artillery
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Fort Erwin, California(NTC) National Training Center
Aiming down range at NTC
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. Fritz Kreisler
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Fort Erwin, California(NTC) National Training Center
Heading out towards our next firing point
"Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets."- Unknown
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Fort Erwin, California(NTC) National Training Center
Taking a shower during a field exercise
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Fort Erwin, California(NTC) National Training Center
Aiming at a practice target at NTC
"A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.“GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Operation Desert Storm VeteranSaudi Arabia
"A line has been drawn in the sand...Withdraw from Kuwait
unconditionally and immediately, or face the terrible consequences."
George Bush
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Returned Home
Safely from Desert Storm
In January 24, 1992 I finally decided to call it quits in the United Sates Army and just became a regular person.
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Credits
Leonel Yanez…………………………………………………………………………………………..Pictures
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” by Edward W. Howe http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/high-school.html
“The soldier is the army.”http://www.generalpatton.com/quotes.htmlGENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. QUOTATIONS
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”Napoleon Bonaparte http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/278
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Credits
“The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.”Leo F. Buscaglia quoteshttp://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_hardest_battle_you re_ever_going_to_fight_is/9127.html
Americans who travel abroad for the first timeare often shocked to discover that,despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years,many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.-Dave Barryhttp://www.greatest-inspirational-quotes.com/inspirational-quotes-about-travel.html
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember,and remember more than I have seen. -Benjamin Disraeli http://www.greatest-inspirational-quotes.com/inspirational-quotes-about-travel.html
“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”Miyamoto Musashi quoteshttp://thinkexist.com/quotation/you_win_battles_by_knowing_the_enemy-s_timing-and/216502.html
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexander_the_great.html
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. Fritz Kreisler http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/artillery.html
"Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets."- Unknownhttp://www.military-quotes.com/artillery%20quotes.htm
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/shower.html
Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever.
Credits
"A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.“GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.
"A line has been drawn in the sand...Withdraw from Kuwait unconditionally and immediately, or face the terrible consequences."George Bush http://www.cryan.com/war/quotes.html
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