Uncommon Sense

Jim Garlits is the civilian and contractor deployment program manager at Camp Atterbury in southern Indiana, and is a husband and father of four.

He has been a medical liaison officer (LNO) at Camp Atterbury, a National Guard Bureau crisis operations center team chief, National Guard Bureau Joint Surgeon’s office medical plans and operations branch chief, a recruiting operations officer, a senior military science instructor, a radio personality, an autoworker, an insurance salesman, a short order cook, a coffee shop and used bookstore owner, an apartment painter and a writer, but not all at the same time.

Jim graduated from Ball State University in 1989 with a degree in magazine journalism and has done relatively little with it, except writing for contributor copies, thrills and kill fees.  He is halfway through a master’s degree in emergency management, was recently elected president of the International Association of Emergency Managers-USA Student Chapter at American Public University System, and hopes to sit for his Certified Emergency Manager credential in the fall.

He procrastinates writing from Shelbyville, Indiana.