I served under Sergeant Major Elwood Sims while stationed at Fort Ord, California, in the early 1970s. He taught me as much as any other individual I ever knew about life and so much more. I have thought about him often over the years. I am pleased to see this site has memorialized his life and service, wish his memory well, that his soul rest in peace, and that God bless him. He was truly some of the last of the "old leather."