As hard as Ranger School was, Reconnaissance School was harder. It was more challenging physically because it came 10 days after Ranger School, where I’d lost 15 pounds and gotten substantially weaker. For the same reason, it was doubly challenging mentally and emotionally. We worked out harder, marched longer, stayed up later. It was hell,Continue reading “The Art of Taking the Road Less Traveled”
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The journey to Ukraine: an introduction
In August of 2016, I was filling my hands with mattress in an apartment overlooking a position 300 meters to the southwest across an open field. Russian-backed separatists were knocking at it with large caliber mortars. The position, an abandoned industrial building connected I think with grain collection, was, I learned later, the Headquarters ofContinue reading “The journey to Ukraine: an introduction”
The Local Blind Spot 