by Lou Marin Just last week, another of “my” Crew Chiefs, this one retired less than a month, left behind a wife and two young children before Continue Reading
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Selling Your Consulting Firm: Lessons from the Trenches
You’ve been running a business. Maybe you started it, maybe you bought in and grew it. You have enjoyed participating in the best capitalist economic Continue Reading
For Absent Friends
I must confess an uncomfortable common truth. One we refrain and refuse to refute. Written as a whisper, quiet words we shan’t dispute. We, war Continue Reading
The Death Clock
Standing at a too young man's graveside.A cold North Dakota November windblew snow up my uniform pants leg. As the honor guard leader called"Ready, Continue Reading
From Service to Shield in Executive Protection
by Jake Mahar Imagine a career where all your skills and experience are put into action every day. A field where anything is possible and every Continue Reading
Damn the Valley: Benning—It’s Just a Body
by William Yeske The following is an excerpt from William Yeske's book: Damn the Valley 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-508 PIR, 82nd Airborne in the Continue Reading
Warriors: The Hidden Reason You May Not Feel Like Having Sex
by Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" and is republished with the author's Continue Reading
Embracing the Uncomfortable: How Imposter Syndrome is Your Secret Catalyst for Growth
We should never want to know (nor work for) a person who does not have imposter syndrome – can you imagine that person's arrogance? So why do so Continue Reading
What it Takes to Bridge the Civ-Mil Divide
Last night, our friend, Rob, hosted a Christmas party at his home. We've known him for at least twenty years, and he has a get together every holiday Continue Reading
Some Fear What Awaits Them in the Dark… Others are the Ones Out There Waiting
Some people are afraid of what is waiting for them in the dark... others are the ones out there waiting.Very respectfullyOS3 K. AudUSCGC Active, Continue Reading
Thanksgiving at the Edge of Loneliness
"All the lonely peopleWhere do they all come from?All the lonely peopleWhere do they all belong?" — from "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles Three of us Continue Reading
How Clear is Your Lens?
I’m going to share an event that happened to me in the military and then at the end, share my take on what happened. I’m also not going to sanitize Continue Reading