Soldier Returning from Afghanistan to Surprise Home Theater
By Lisa Montgomery
Air Force Superintendent Timothy Greer hires installer to convert unfinished room to home theater while he serves.

Timothy Greer, Sr. has served the Air Force for more than 20 years. Although officially retired, he has worked for four years in support of PM RUS (Program Manager Robotic and Unmanned Sensors) and Lockheed Martin. As an aerostat field engineer manager for the Department of Defense’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) team, the lighter-than-air “balloons” Greer helps operate and maintain are equipped with surveillance cameras that watch over the battlegrounds in Afghanistan. Each time a balloon goes up, soldiers and Marines are able to come home, he says.

Greer is in Afghanistan now, but when he returns he’ll have a brand-new - well almost brand new - home theater waiting for him. During his last 30 days of R&R, Greer made it his mission to hire a custom installer to convert an unfinished room of his house into a home theater.



“I talked with several people, visited showrooms, but no one really made a good impression,” Greer recalls. “Then I went to the grocery store.” It was here, in the parking lot of Tom Thumb, that Greer received “a call from above.” As he was about to leave the lot, he noticed a truck with the words “Theater Advice” painted on the side. “It was a sign,” says Greer. “I had to stay and meet whoever was driving that truck.”

This nuts-to-bolts approach was critical in Greer’s case, as he would be deployed soon for another stint in Afghanistan. He instinctively trusted Huse, and felt comfortable leaving all of the decisions to him rather than to several individual designers.

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