Inspiration, Military, Team
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 they were for me – and they were certainly the most challenging. I don’t know the exact statistics, but I suspect... 
Inspiration, Leadership, Military, Teams
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 was there – today, there are thirty companies). Within each company, there are equal numbers of plebes,... 
Inspiration, Military, Team, Teams
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 more than my share of water over the three-week training session. I had nearly passed out completing the 50-meter... 
Leadership, Military, Team
A U.S. Navy SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) is a 20-foot-long black tube with a bulbous front end and a large five-bladed propeller at the other end. Over 60% of the space inside the vehicle is taken up by electronic equipment and batteries. The rest of the boxy open... 
Inspiration, Leadership, Military
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 two cities” – “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The thing is, those two “times” were highly...
