Bernard’s Story: Love in Army Officer Candidate School

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Welcome to Bernard Travis, our male protagonist in Operation: Camouflage Christmas. We decided to interview him for our blog.

How are you connected to the Military, and what branch?

My dad is a drill sergeant currently serving overseas. I’m now in Officer Candidate School to become a Psychiatric Physician’s Assistant.

What did you like and/or dislike about being a military brat?

My father was strict and life changed dramatically when he was around. Life was easier when he was gone. He didn’t show a lot of emotion. It was hard too when bad things happened that he wasn’t always there for us.

I didn’t mind moving around because I met interesting people and I guess the discipline my dad instilled in me helped me through college and hopefully through officer training.

What do you say when people ask, “Where are you from?”

I usually tell them I’m an American. I don’t belong to any one place.

Where is home for you?

Home is wherever my mom is. Someday I hope it will be wherever my wife is.

Why should someone read Operation: Camouflage Christmas?

Well, if you want bad poetry, by all means go ahead. I’m just happy my plan to woo Brooke worked. You’d need to read it to find out just how. I think God covered a multitude of my own weaknesses in the process.

CAMOUFLAGE CHRISTMAS RELEASE DAY! WOOT!

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If you read our “about” page you know that DeeDee and Susan became friends years ago (more than we want to admit because it makes us older!). They met at the Colorado Christian Writer’s Conference in Estes Park Colorado and Susan was on faculty and DeeDee was her first appointment. There as an instant connection and friendship that came out of that, probably because DeeDee can make friends anywhere. Part personality and part of being a Navy brat and an Army wife.

How did you come to write this book?

How can love blossom when dating is forbidden?

Setting aside broken dreams of love and marriage, Samantha “Brooke” Cooper-Sanchez is determined to complete Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, so she can be a nurse in the Army Medical Corps. She wasn’t looking for love. Then surprise Christmas gifts begin showing up. Who is sending them and how does this person know her so well?

Bernard Travis has been friends with Brooke since high school. They’d remained in contact over the years, and now for the first time, she is available to pursue, except dating is forbidden in OCS. When she doesn’t realize who her mysterious gift giver is, Bernard begins to doubt he’ll ever win her heart. Will God make his fondest Christmas wish come true?

Buy Operation Camouflage Christmas today and discover an engaging novella of love, trust, and faith.