About the Author

Hi. About the author is about me, David Schulze. I live in San Antonio, TX. In my life I have served in the military, been a pastor, youth pastor, worked four years in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.

I grew up in a small town in Texas called Leakey. I played football, where I was honored to play on the team that won the State Championship for the last eight man football game played in Texas. There is no substitute for being Number One. This was back in 75' and there is a sign up to this day about the victory on the three roads going into Leakey.

While in high school I ran track. I did the one mile run. Usually they were asking me to clear the track so they could get ready for the next race.

I really did not learn about running until I got into the Army. I learned "No Pain, No Gain. I once ran ten miles in 75 minutes. Now I do good if I can get out of bed in 75 minutes.

I have another website called Vegetable Gardening Made Easier where I show the small home gardener how to plant a garden in their back yard.

In 2006, I was hired by a Kuwait company called SMS to set up a hardware store at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.

I was very proud of this achievement. I was hired to plan, develop and design the whole operation. Based on my experience from Baqubah, Iraq, I came up with a list of items we needed to stock when we opened.

I had to set the pricing, profit margins and so on. I had to price and stock the items. I designed merchandiser so we could display items that hung up.

I had to design this store out of materials we currently had on hand at our base in Al Asad. I showed the labor crew how to build a pier and beam foundation so we could put what they called collapsible buildings on it.

These buildings were 12' x 40'. We put six of them together to create our store. Since we would not have a forklift, I designed a dock so that a flatbed truck could pull up right beside it and we could unload it. Without a forklift, we could unload a forty foot flat bed in four hours.

I had 1.5 million dollars in sales in the first eight months. People flew in from all over Iraq to shop in our store. In addition to hardware items we carried ECUs, appliances, furniture, charcoal, BBQ grills, printers, cartridges, office supplies, cleaning supplies, ATV parts, generator parts, vehicle parts.

In general I carried a lot of stuff. All of it sold very well.

But then all good things come to an end. The company made some bad business decisions in other departments that led to the downfall of the company and the closing of the store.

Then I went to Afghanistan to eradicate poppy plants. Basically the United States is trying to use a sheep process to tame a rabid bear. It just is not going to happen. The people there have grown up with a desire to live at war with everyone instead of peace.

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