She was the definition of humble,” said Gambol ” I had to lean over at the end of the ceremony to tell her I had to apologize because I did not fully know whose chair I was stealing at the beginning. Army’s 2-229th attack helicopter battalion during the Persian Gulf War where she survived becoming a prisoner of war after her helicopter was shot down.
Cornum is one of only seven women to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross and was the first woman flight surgeon to enter into combat with the U.S. When they began to list off her background I was floored.” Brigadier General Rhonda L. We joked about a few things during the ceremony, which really eased my nerves. Gambol said, “I did not know about her or her background when seated next to her. Cornum on stage as she switched seats with him to allow him easier access to his guitar, stating “what are they gonna say?” to which he laughed. One moment that stuck with Gambol happened when he sat next to Brigadier General Rhonda L. Gambol spent many hours perfecting his work in the garage of his renthouse in Liberty Hill intermittently reaching out to Bo for advice and thoughts on the progress and said, “I really wanted to do it the justice it deserved.”
Gambol began working on the poem and reached out to Bo Armstrong, a friend he had met through a Texas songwriting competition and he suggested the structure of the song to take the first verse of the poem and make it the chorus. I want to say thank you for your service to the friends and family that I know served in Desert Storm (Edward Roach, Barney Dodd, James Froncek).” In response to being offered the opportunity, Gambol was initially extremely nervous and thought about turning the opportunity down, he said, “I was honored though. Etter reached out to Gambol with the opportunity to perform ‘Desert Thoughts’ in Washington D.C and Gambol accepted. While attending TAMUCC in 2015 Gambol met Emily Etter, now a multi-media communications specialist for the National Desert Storm War memorial and they have kept in touch ever since.
Now he is currently working in the construction industry in North Austin while trying to build his first EP/album. Gambol graduated from TAMUCC as a Geology Major and spent two years selling drillbits in the West Texas Oil field. From there Gambol played at a couple of small gigs in Bastrop, Texas but at 21 years old he started going after acoustic gigs all around Corpus Christi. He began teaching himself how to play guitar around 14 years old after being gifted his uncle Rick’s Acoustic Epiphone Gibson guitar. Dillon Gambol is a self-taught musician/country music enthusiast.
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