UPDATE ON THE ADVENTURES OF MAJOR PETE
May 10, 2011
Dear Cableites,
It has been many months since I last updated you all on the happenings of our adventures since moving here to Ft. Leavenworth Kansas. As some of you 
may recall, I am here attending my "mid-career" officer education course known as ILE (Intermediate Level Education). It is a graduate-level course thatall Army majors must attend, along 
with students from the Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard to develop them for command of large units andstaff assignments. The ILE curriculum is designed to educate Majors on the uses of military power at the operational and tactical levels in small collaborative seminars of 16 students.The goal of ILE is to develop operational expertise in employing joint, interagency and multinational forces and capabilities in offensive, defensive, civil support, and stability and reconstruction operations. Needless to say, I have been up to my eyeballs in reading and writing assignments, with little time to do much else.
Not the entire goings on here has been centered on me. Natalya was able to enroll in the local Community College last October and completed the training to become a Pharmacist Technician in December. She shortly thereafter applied for a position as a Pharmacy Tech at CVS Pharmacy in Kansas City KS, and was hired. She completed all of the required CVS in-house training and has recently become a "Licensed Kansas State Pharmacy Technician". Needless to say, I am quite proud of her.
In the flying realm around here, well that has had a few ups and downs. As some of you may already know, my Experimental aircraft experienced a gear up issue in Oct. Upon great amounts of reflection and consideration, I decided that it was time to close that chapter and move on. Moving on did not take too long, but it did come with a spousal caveat. That caveat was that I could get another airplane but no more experimental aircraft until I retire! So after speaking with a few Cableite experts at the Tumbled Gyro, and taking in advice from the German contingent of the "Happy Bottom Ridding Club", I decided to look for a Bonanza/Debonair. It did not take long and I found a Debonair in Nashville TN that caught my attention. After a short trip down to Nashville and a little flying, I decided that it was the one for me, and on the 19th of February, I flew back down to Nashville in the morning on Southwest, and flew back with my Debonair. Since owning the Deb, my flying time here has been limited though, and we have only made one excursion. We flew down to a place called "Gaston's" (3M0) in northern Arkansas (www.gastons.com), along the White river. It is a nice little place with a 3,000 ft. grass strip, a restaurant, and cabins to rent. We will definitely be going back for a little R&R and some fishing.
In closing, we have found the life here in Kansas not too bad. We are about a 30 min drive from Kansas City MO, with all of the sites and attractions to include some world class BBQ. Our stay here however will be short lived, as I have recently been informed that next April we will once again be moving. This time we will be heading back west, well northwest that is…. FT. Lewis WA here we come! Until next time, Keep the rubber side down, and if any of you will be heading out this way between now and next April, feel free to drop into FT. Leavenworth airfield (KFLV is a multi-use airfield) and look us up.
Regards, MAJ Peter Queyrel
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may recall, I am here attending my "mid-career" officer education course known as ILE (Intermediate Level Education). It is a graduate-level course thatall Army majors must attend, along 
with students from the Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard to develop them for command of large units andstaff assignments. The ILE curriculum is designed to educate Majors on the uses of military power at the operational and tactical levels in small collaborative seminars of 16 students.The goal of ILE is to develop operational expertise in employing joint, interagency and multinational forces and capabilities in offensive, defensive, civil support, and stability and reconstruction operations. Needless to say, I have been up to my eyeballs in reading and writing assignments, with little time to do much else. 