I've decided on a couple of builds, one is an old in-progress Academy M998 HMMWV that I bought and started in the summer of 1996. I bought it while on TDY at Maxwell AFB in Alabama and worked on it a bit while I was there. I placed it back into the box and it hasn't seen the light of day until late this summer when I ran across it again. I planned on building it to represent my HMMWV I had while assigned to my first staff officer job, the Battalion Maintenance officer for 1-12 Cav.
The second build is an old Tamiya M2 Bradley I started while in college in 1987 awaiting orders to report to active duty. It's about 1/3 started and sat in a box for a very long time and was one of the kits I collected from my parents house before they retired and headed south for Florida. It is similar to the Bradleys I trained on later that year at my Armor Officer Basic course at Fort Knox.
Airborne school was a blast. I went rather late in life during the summer of 1991. Having just returned from a fun filled vacation in sand and sun, I was allowed to go to Benning before my Armor Office Advance Course began. I was a first lieutenant with a 1st Cav combat patch and crossed sabers on the other collar. The black hats left me alone and picked on the "slick sleeves".
We had a bunch of military medical students in my platoon, all with the rank of second lieutenant or ensign (depending on their service branch), who were attending airborne school as some sort of reward for being tops in their medical school class in acedemics and PT. They all kept calling me "sir" and saluting me. It was rather annoying, but they got all the cr*ppy leadership tasks and all I had to take care of was myself.
It was the easiest military school I've ever attended, although, it started in mid-July and ended like the second or third of August. Definitely not the ideal time of the year to be playing outdoors in Georgia. You could never stop sweating, even during those torrential downpours which helped wash the sand and sawdust off of us.