Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy, 2017.
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Take Me Back…
Take me back, back to a time when things were simpler… Uniform inspections. Workout schedules, muster in the mornings, then off to grab a sandwich from Subway, and some dip to start off the day. It’s about 0930 now and I’m finally starting to work. There’s a bunch of travel audits to do. Some of the boys are leaving for a secret service mission in a few days and I gotta make sure their flights are booked. I chop it up with a few homies from the Afghan company to see how they like their new platoons. I miss working with them. My first deployment was to Afghanistan as part…
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Train as you fight, fight as you train.
Spring midterms are right around the corner. “Train as you fight, fight as you train” is often used in the military. The same principle can applied to your education. Here are a few things that you could do, that will sound very familiar in what you have been doing in the military. Have a purpose. Always have a purpose for everything that you do. Before beginning any task in the military, you were always told the purpose of what you were doing. Well, for the most part, I guess. If you didn’t know your purpose while carrying out tasks in the military, chances are someone did. Since you didn’t know, you probably didn’t…
