The Mindset Is the Mission We were on the flight line at Whidbey Island, Washington on a crisp sunny day, manning up the jet for an extended detachment. That’s when I learned a valuable lesson about inspiration and self-imposed limitations. Our jet, the EA-18G Growler, is not known for its cargo space, so the night before the flight, I was focused on the practical problem of packing. I’d found a solution: a single bag that fit perfectly into an outer compartment near the nose

Mentoring is often misconstrued as perfect advice at the perfect time. Real life mentoring is a little slower, and in a lot of neighborhoods, it is often missing entirely. A national survey found that roughly one in three young people grew up without any mentor at all, about 16 million youth, including 9 million considered “at-risk.” The gap is widest where time, means of transportation, and adult bandwidth are thinnest. The case for starting a mentoring relationship young i

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Soultana (Tania) Banitsioti is an active duty Army Officer in the Hellenic Armed Forces of Greece. She graduated from the Hellenic ...