A Poor Boy’S Odyssey (ePub)

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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