About_Writer_Dennis_W

Biography

Dennis W. Lid was born in Ohio and raised in Northern California. He is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara as an English Major. Mr. Lid served his country for over 20 years in the U.S. Army Infantry, Airborne and Special Forces, and then honorably retired from active duty as a Major in 1980. Dennis continued to serve his country as a Department of Defense Civil Servant for 19 years before retiring again in 1999 as a GS-12, Military Plans Specialist.

Mr. Lid's family is comprised of his wife, Bi Yu, and his four adult children: Daniel, Amy, Charles and Debora. All reside in the Western United States; all are world travelers. Mr. and Mrs. Lid are comfortably retired in La Quinta, California.

Most of Mr. Lid's civil service time was spent overseas in Japan and Europe. He and his family arrived at Headquarters, United States Army Japan (USARJ) on 12 August 1981, where he joined the Resource Management Division for a few years as a Management Analyst. In 1985, he switched to G3 Exercise Division as a GS-11, Exercise Plans Specialist to develop a cold weather exercise named North Wind. Mr. Lid was promoted to GS-12 and transferred to G3 Exercise Support Division in 1986 to continue work as an exercise planner on Yama Sakura Command Post and four other field training exercises. Primary emphasis was placed on developing and maintaining the Five Year Overseas Deployment Training Plan and the Five Year Exercise Schedule to resource all USARJ military exercises. Secondary emphasis was placed on ancillary efforts such as the Bilateral Training Study Panel with the Japan Self-Defense Forces, USARJ Exercise Briefings, and recurring reports.

In January, 1987, Mr. Lid was given an assignment, a permanent change of station to Kaiserslautern, Germany as a GS-12, Management Analyst
developing concept plans for the 21st Support Command. He completed the assignment in one year and returned (PCS) to Japan on 2 December 1987 as a GS-12, Exercise and Military Plans Specialist in G3 Exercise Division.

Mr. Lid's final PCS before retirement was to Fort McPherson, Georgia on 3 January 1999 as a Military Plans Specialist for the U.S. Army Reserve Command, G1, Personnel Division.

Civil service retirement occurred on 30 September 1999, after which the Lid family moved to Southern California. Mr. Lid is actually semi-retired. He works part-time at College of the Desert, Eastern Valley Academic Skills Center as an Instructional Support Assistant in the writing, reading, language, math and computer laboratory. His website URL is http://www.dennislid.com , and the email address is