Jul29, 2022
Pink Elephants on the Beach
Five Days of Cold, Wet, Grueling Training on Less Than Four Hours’ Sleep Hell Week nights are definitely the most memorable part of the week, at least[...]
Military
Jul29, 2022
Two for Seven – Naval Academy Stories of Inspiration
The student body at the Naval Academy is called The Brigade, and it’s neatly organized into thirty-six “teams,” which are referred to as companies (when I[...]
Jul29, 2022
To Lead is to Serve and to Serve is to Care
Care-based Navy SEAL Leadership Principles in Action Care-Based Leadership is found in those moving nations, such as Mahatma Ghandi or Winston Churchill;[...]
Jul29, 2022
The Methacholine Challenge
I thought I knew what drowning felt like. I had squirmed my way through drown-proofing, acting more like a worm than a dolphin in the water and inhaling[...]
Jul29, 2022
Alpha Mike
If you’ve ever spent anytime serving in the military, there are few things all military branches have in common, such as their focus on timeliness,[...]
Jul29, 2022
Goals, Part 1: WHY?
One of the most terrifying moments in my life was conducting my first Military Free Fall parachute jump. It was terrifying for me not because of the[...]
Jul29, 2022
Dear Mr. President, George H. W. Bush, It Was the Best of Times
The first 23 months of my US Naval Academy service could best be described as if I were playing a starring role in the Charles Dickens’s novel “A tale of[...]
Jul29, 2022
How to Build an Unstoppable Team, Part 1: The Story of Three Michaels
On September 29, 2006 25-year-old Navy SEAL petty officer Michael Monsoor was on a patrol in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. His responsibility that day was to provide[...]
Jul29, 2022
Fog, Faith and Freedom
This Memorial Day weekend is unlike any we have had in at least the last 100 years (when the world encountered the last major pandemic). The fog of[...]
Jul29, 2022
The Price of Freedom – May We Not Forget
Happy Fourth of July and may God Bless the United States of America, our allies, and our troops! May we not forget the price of freedom. 20 years ago my[...]