My recent visit to Tamale in the last week of January 2023 was my first in about twenty years since my last in 2002. Somehow, at about 1,200 feet above sea level and a few minutes before landing at Tamale airport, my mind evoked strong memories of yesteryears. As the Commanding Officer (CO) of the Ghana Military Academy (now Commandant) in the late 1990s, Tamale was my home every January into February from 1999-2002 when I took my cadets to the Airborne Force (ABF) for the parachute training phase of their training.