This is a memoir about my ninety-three years on this earth and the good luck I have had. It borrows from previous self-published memoirs about growing up on a farm during the depression of the 1930s, about real estate investments, and about a career in governmental service. That started with an entry grade of GS-6 trainee in the Border Patrol and ended with retirement twenty-one years later in grade GS-15. After retirement I was executive assistant to the CEO of the National Rifle Association, followed by two years as Deputy Executive Vice President (CEO)
Good luck was a major factor in my success, but the luck was helped by the capacity for hard work developed on the farm as a teenager. Other factors in my successes were my natural ability for pistol marksmanship and my experience as an airplane pilot in World War II.
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Joe White grew up on a dirt-poor farm in Tennessee during the worst part of the depression of the 2930s. The oldest of seven children, and the last one living, he missed the senior year of high school to work in the harvest and later to join the Civilian Conservation Corps. His father was in poor health, and the money from the CCC helped the family to survive.
He joined the National Guard at age eighteen and that became the Army of the United States when he was twenty. He went to flying school and in 1943 became an officer pilot in the Army Air Corps. His primary duty was as an instructor pilot, training Air Corps Cadets.
In 1953, he joined the US Immigration Border Patrol as a GS-6 Trainee and retired in 1974 in grade GS-15. He held positions of Patrol Inspector, Airplane Pilot, Chief of Air Operations and Logistics, District Director, Assistant Regional Commissioner, and Chief Intelligence Officer. He was a shooting member of five national championship pistol teams with the Border Patrol, three with the .45 and two with the center-fire gun. After retirement he was national senior (age 60 or older) pistol champion six times. Before, after, and between the times of service in the military and the Immigration Service he was a real estate salesman, broker, and investor. This book is basically a memoir about all of the good luck has had for most of his life, and he is only partly Irish.
After retirement, he was asked to go to Washington to work at NRA headquarters as the Executive assistant to Harlon Carter, the Executive Vice President (CEO.) Later he was his Deputy for two years. Joe resigned because he remarried and wanted to move back to Florida to manage his real estate investment there.
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