JD\u2019s Bunker is the ancestor of JDPendry.com.\u00a0 The Bunker began in late 1997 on a free web hosting platform named Geocities.\u00a0 It remained there until Geocities faded away into cyber space.\u00a0 At that point the transition in my aged cranial hard drive is a little fuzzy, but Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Dan Elder offered to host the Bunker on one of his activities named Virtual Battalion Headquarters (vbnhq.com).\u00a0 JD’s Bunker continued there and additionally Dan provided me a forum for JD\u2019s Bunker on his popular NCO Website.\u00a0 Circa 2005, Dan chopped his websites (minus the often politically incorrect Bunker)and much accumulated knowledge and expertise to the Army (I believe that is a correct characterization of it) as they were forming Army Knowledge Base communities which were in their infancy. Fortunately for the Army, Dan had a significant head start was an important part of that.\u00a0 Dan is a pioneer in that arena.<\/p>\n
Following all of that, I started JDPendry.com and continued JD\u2019s Bunker.\u00a0 That was going full speed with a reasonable amount of subscribers and traffic until December 23, 2008 when I was involved in a serious automobile accident.\u00a0 From then through 2009, there was no activity at JDPendry.com.\u00a0 Subscriber base, web traffic, etc all dwindled to nothing.\u00a0 While I was about to give up on the pursuit altogether, Dan again offered to host JDPendry.com on his webhosting service at Topsarge.com now MILMEDIA.\u00a0 We began anew in 2010.\u00a0 Since then JDPendry.com has existed as a place for me to write some when time, my demanding day job, and life in general permitted.\u00a0 Goes without saying that it was sporadic. There has never been an attempt to commercialize the site, but the times they are a changin\u2019.\u00a0 On June 30, 2016, I retired from my second career and now hope to embark on a third in the written media and maybe into other platforms as well.\u00a0 Who knows? Doc tells me I have to keep the cranial hard drive busy otherwise they’ll be fitting me with a drool bib or for a coffin.<\/p>\n
As you might imagine from 1998 to 2008 there was a large volume of material posted in JD\u2019s Bunker addressing Army issues, social issues, politics, and Americana.\u00a0 From this page, I hope to reconstruct and open a door to the old Bunker with the original archived material (except for what might have resided on some long lost floppy disc).\u00a0 It provides quite a commentary on the times and offers some decent leadership lessons for those interested.<\/p>\n
You may find the html coding amateurish and shockingly simple by today’s standards, but in the days these pages were created you were mostly self-taught and hand jammed every page. <\/p>\n
As I complete reconstruction of each of the old Bunker Pages, I will put links here. Maybe you will find something you like. Keep an eye out, more to come. Bunker Chapel<\/a> | Bunker Poetry<\/a> | NCO Duties and Responsibilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"