What the Infantry Taught me About Parenting
5 min readJun 20, 2019
Prepare and pack, haul, be vigilant, and just make it home…so you can prepare for the next outing.
Never did I think about parenting while packed in a dark &dusty corner of a 7-ton truck, or while hauling fifty plus pounds of body armor, ammunition, and gear. But the lessons of an infantry deployment are vast and penetrate…