During his 50 years in federal service, Wayne J. Arendt has been widely acknowledged as a noteworthy figure in the field of wildlife biology and ornithology. Prior to his civil service career, from 1966 to 1969, Dr. Arendt was a soldier in the U.S. Army and served as a battalion mail clerk, a 4.2mm mortarman in Alaska and a military policeman in Colorado at Fort Carson’s maximum-security stockade…