Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to take EA, MC, and Will to see a Sesame Street show for military families. Actually I jumped at the opportunity as soon as it presented itself. There are only a few children’s…
Deployment After Action Review (AAR)
The Army has a tool that it uses after a training exercise called an AAR (after action review). Using this tool turns those training exercises into learning processes to find out why things happened rather than to judge successes and…
It’s Getting Closer…Some Scatterbrained Thoughts while Waiting
So…Keith is finally making his way home from Iraq. Yesterday he wrote about how he lost his laundry predicting it would take longer to leave Iraq than it actually did. Hey! I’ll take that kind of laundry loss any day!!…