Greetings, IUSS shipmates. It's time again to publish the annual edition of "The Cable", the official newsletter of the IUSS CAESAR Alumni Association. Our last issue was published in November of 2017.

As has been our policy, the Association will publish this year's newsletter around Thanksgiving. We will collect inputs through October; collate the newsletter in the first half of November; and publish in late November. "The Cable" is only published by electronic means. No paper copies will be available or forwarded.

Please consider submitting an article for publication. It doesn't need to be a masterpiece or 10-page journal article - just looking for short stories of interest to our membership. We'll do any required editing working right along with you.

Questions, comments and articles can be forwarded directly to me at bogey20732@yahoo.com.

Thanks and best regards,

Nick

OK folks....here's the reality.

In the two weeks since I put out a call for articles, I've received 3 or 4...and I'm grateful for those.

Let's be serious, though. With 833 members, I should be turning down dozens of submissions...not asking for more.

Each and everyone of you has, at least, 10 good stories to tell about your career and the outrageous people you were stationed with.

Please consider putting pen to paper and sharing with us. Don't worry about your article not being a work of literary genius...we don't need that.

I'm working on some as we speak.

Nick