When he was first assigned to Engine 40, Ladder 35, last summer, he showed up at 3 in the morning.
He was no longer the timid kid who walked into the wrong skyscraper three years ago, when he was first assigned to work in the copy center at Locke Lord.
He was first assigned to the special victims bureau and was recently transferred to the domestic violence bureau, officials said.
Enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1943, his senior year, he was first assigned to complete his college studies and begin law school.
He was first assigned to the École Biblique in Jerusalem, later called to Rome, and then sent to Dominican institutions in Cambridge, Eng., and Strasbourg, France.
He was first assigned to Ladder Company 3, and then to Ladder Companies 18 and 6, making him a truckie, as firefighters call those who serve in ladder companies.
A Navy officer during the Vietn am war, he was first assigned to the navy base in Coronado, California as Boat Crew Training Officer before the crews left for Vietnam and he himself was later assigned to the Swift Boat Base at Da Nang in Cameron Bay.
That meant a delay in learning the tango from Cheryl Burke, his partner on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" who blessedly had never heard of the guy once dubbed "The Meanest Man in Congress" when he was first assigned to her. "Cheryl says the tango's macho, arrogant and aggressive, and I said, 'That's me,' " he recalled.
He was first assigned to the battleship, and later became commanding officer of the submarine.
He was first assigned to the remote Sierra Gorda region in what is now south-central Mexico's Queretaro state.
