Transition success! This retiring Colonel started a career flipping bases

"Where did they get all this taupe paint?"

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.

As a retired Colonel, with 30 years o…