Transition success! This retiring Colonel started a career flipping bases
"Where did they get all this taupe paint?"
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It’s a fixer-upper
FORT LIBERTY, N.C.—Colonel Howard Ratner is retiring soon, following a successful Infantry career leading units from platoon to brigade level. His greatest challenge, however, is still ahead of him. Ratner is building a business buying, rehabilitating, and selling neglected DOD garrisons for profit.
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