Holiday lessons from a drill weekend

This past weekend brought another round of Army National Guard shenanigans, the kind where you spend half the time training and the other half realizing you are, in fact, stronger than a kid who hasn’t even unpacked his ruck from AIT. I talked a brand-new private into trying one day of my bodybuilding routine from Barb, and I’d love to tell you the story ends with grace and humility. It does not. I outlifted him and then outran another soldier who still had that fresh-out-of-basic energy. But as satisfying as it is to terrorize teenagers in uniform, I want to shift to something a little deeper...