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    A Tale of Two Cannons

    Jun 10, 2021 5 minutes
    by Alexander F. Barnes and
    Timothy Williams

    With apologies to Charles Dickens, our story seems to fit: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” Actually, it was sometime in 2007 and both authors were working as Department of the Army civilians in the Combined Arms Support Command (USACASCOM) at Fort Lee, Virginia. Tim Williams was working as the Deputy of the CASCOM Sustainment Battle Lab and Al Barnes was the Division Chief for the Automated Systems Documentation and Architecture Division. We had served together for quite a while in the Virginia National Guard (VANG) in the 1990s. Barnes had retired from the Guard after 30 years of active duty and Guard service in 2004. Williams was still serving and now was the 111th Field Artillery commander.

    One bright spring day, Al received

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