By Joe Byerly Regardless of what you did in the military, how many times you deployed, how long you spent in uniform,...
What Odysseus Knew About Coming Home: The Veteran’s Second Odyssey
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The Advice I Got From Outer Space
By Joe Byerly I was on a road trip with my family in May 2023 when I received a phone call from a Houston-area number....
Congratulations on Your Promotion to MAJ! Here is a Dumpster Fire: Lessons from Two First-Year KD Majors
By Sam Balch and Sara Roger Nobody warns you. They just hand you the keys, wish you luck, and walk away. The first...
Protecting Patches of Weeds
By Joe Byerly One of the Czars of Russia, walking through his park, came upon a sentry standing guard over a small...
The Internal AAR: What to Do After a Bad Evaluation (or a Great One)
By Steven Prater “You just did your job.” Those words still resonate with me. The moment my Senior Rater hit me in my...
Knowing What Something Isn’t
By Joe Byerly There are some things I know with 100% certainty. I know purpose isn’t something someone else can hand...
Family Fitness Opportunities: A Father’s Day Gift from Afghanistan
By Joe Byerly When I returned from Afghanistan as the world was shutting down in March of 2020, I struggled to regain...
How LinkedIn Upped My Military Game
by Stephen T. Messenger As a U.S. Army officer, I never had much need nor desire to interact on LinkedIn. After all,...
In the Wake of a Leader’s Suicide: Leading Through Grief, Readiness, and Organizational Complexity
By Colonel Laura Weimer The burden of command is heavy. In early 2023, I felt that immense weight of responsibility...