A long time ago in a land far far away many young men gathered at the request of their country to spend a year or two or three in a country on the other side of the world.   These young men joined together and became members of the 14th Transportation Battalion.  At the end of their vacation everyone said goodbye to their friends and all promised that some day they would meet again "in the world".

As it often happens when they got home they had families to raise and take care of.  The time to meet up with their old friends just never seemed to be there, so they just looked at the old pictures they kept and thought, "gee, I wonder what ever happened to old so and so?" 

After 40 years a couple of these young men (I use that term "young" very loosely) finally took the time to meet up again and figured wouldn't it be great if a few of us could get together and just see what everybody is doing.

As they got on the phones and internet looking for others the two interested guys grew to a few guys and then when they tried to figure out how to have a meeting they found they could have a meeting and get pretty good discounts if they actually had an organization so it began.