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With every passing week it is feeling more like an impending deployment. You keep packing your and then unpacking, because your name wasn’t on the flight list this time. In the same vein the weather keeps warming up, I keep measuring and prepping the beds while my wife brings the transplants out to harden. Then we get another frost warning and 4 days later we are trying to get ready…
As a kid I as often told that failure is the not getting you when you fall, that losing is part of the process to finding success. I found that to be true through much of my life whether it wrestling, running, vocal training, basic training, or just standing in front of my first NCO board and just sucking the big one. Each fall was a learning experience to demonstrate…
Once the waiting is over the busy work begins. Over the last week we have spent quite a bit of time on the road. I traveled to Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas for personnel exchanges with other Rabbit breeders as a breeder not a rep of LFV. I also spent time fulfilling my duties to the Ohio National Guard. Thankfully I made it home from these adventures before the…
In preparation for my first deployment, we spent days planning, reading, packing, and waiting, and waiting. All of my experienced NCOs told me before hand about hurry up and wait and how to prepare for it. That saving our strength for the work ahead would be critical and that patience would be the better part of valor in these cases. What they didn’t tell me was once the waiting was…