Never had the pleasure of serving with Larry at an operational duty station. We first met in Key West in the middle 60s. Both being from the great state of AR, we hit it off immediately. I ran across him a couple of times during my active duty and once long after I had retired from active duty and he was serving his COs assignment. What struck me about all of our encounters was his consistency. He was the same guy as a CO as he was as a boot camp trainee in Key West.
As Smokey said, he is one of the best and he got that way by being consistently Larry Wilcher from AR all his life.