Gerald Montgomery

I joined the Army in 1986 to conduct a four-year long field trip. My mission: to understand in my own neurology, what it means to be a soldier. To walk in the boots. To sweat in the heat, experience the cold like no civilian has ever experienced the cold, to suck and be smoked and end up loving the men I’ve served with and the things we did together. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I will never regret my decision to conduct this research project. As you can see, the project became a career in and of itself. Here I am twenty years later, still pounding the ground like a grunt and falling out of the sky with too much gear attached to my body tethered to a parachute that I didn’t pack but have faith that it will function properly when I step off the ramp into a hurricane and twelve hundred feet of sky.

I’ve always felt that FICTION is a much better platform for use to slip an insight or perspective to the public through. More people watch entertainment than they do fact-based programming like documentaries or learning type shows. This goes for books as well. The human being is a sucker for a story. Tell me a tale. Storytelling is a part of our very genetic make up.