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Month: July 2020

Corpsman Moment: Heed the Heat

Corpsman Moment: Heed the Heat

The weather in our world has been changing over the past many years, and now we are seeing record highs in many places. From dust storms to the ongoing hurricane season, the United States is going through wild weather in the midst of civil unrest and a pandemic. As a corpsman, there were many things that we were encouraged to promote, and caution around hot weather was one of the big ones. Here are some tips to stay cool- even…

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2020: Embrace the Suck

2020: Embrace the Suck

Military language. Maybe military language should be considered an actual language, as it currently is not. From “Blue Falcon” to “Squid”, many of those terms are now leaking out into the real world. One of my favorites has entered into this realm: “Embrace the Suck”. The term supposedly has ideological roots in Buddhist or Taoist culture. Reminders exist to accept the bad times as well as the good, and accept that there is a path forward. So many veterans have…

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