This episode focuses on military deployments regarding young first and second term military service members. What I learned not only early in my career, but later in my career and today as a Retired Marine, young service members often depart for deployment with important tasks left incomplete on the homefront. They simply focus intensely on unit responsibilities and making sure they display standout performances toward leadership. However, because of such intense focus on unit responsibilities, important homefront tasks get placed on the backburner and then crammed and jammed together at the last minute to get them done. Trust me, my first deployment involved me having to go to my squad leader and ask for a day off because I failed to complete a couple of important tasks involving financial matters. I knew and expected to be chewed out but I was fortunate that I was given the time off to complete my affairs.

Well, just recently, I listened to several Airmen at Nellis AFB speak about homefront tasks they needed to complete prior to departing for deployment. What was interesting is that they all talked more about unit priorities over family priorities and being a little behind on family matters. I can assure you that unit priorities are going to get done no matter what, so the need to focus on them so intensely is not as concerning because leadership will drive mission accomplishment period. Let's us as leaders, whether in-service or retired teach our young Warriors how to effect family priorities before deployment. We can do this by ensuring our young service members have a detailed daily homefront checklist put together and immediate execution of the checklist started within 24 hours of learning that the unit is going on deployment on this projected date. I understand that not every home operates the same, so the checklist should be dedicated to each respective household and completed in a step-by-step fashion.

At the end of the day, ensuring our young service men and women and their families are prepared for deployment is critical and leave no doubt that their respective homefront is left safe and secure prior to deployment!

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This episode discusses a unique conversation between two male best friends, a black kid and a white kid between the ages of 10-12. What makes the conversation so unique is that it involves race and ethnicity. The kids apparently have overheard multiple conversations by adults and older kids and thought that they should figure out how they should be perceived: for the black kid, Black or African American and for the white kid, White or Caucasian.

Imagine, kids this young trying to identify how they should be perceived by others. The black kid asks the white kid, hey, with all the talks we have heard from adults in our families and from older kids, "Should I refer to you as White or Caucasian?" As for me, "Should I be referred to as Black or African American?" The white kid, however, appeared to view being called Caucasian as a word that places him above his best friend and others not like him. On the other end, the black kid viewed the word African American as a word that sounds professional. The black kids further believes that he and his best friend are going one day be excellent professionals in whatever careers they choose. With such as the case, he strongly feels that they both should want to be called African American and Caucasian because those words represent being professional and will identify to others who they are now and in the future. I can only imagine as the conversation continued, the two agreed that African American and Caucasian is who they are from now on, and, I can only hope that their parents and other adults in their families have heard about their conversation and discussed it with them as individuals.

At the end of the day, young kids feed off of the conversations they hear from adults and older kids, so always be cognizant of what you say around them. Case in point, you have these two bright young kids believing that they already need to figure out their identity in terms of their respective ethnicities and why being referred to as African American and Caucasian is important to their lives right now and once they become professionals in their respective careers.

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This episode provides a lifeline and empowers you and me to ensure we employ an effective daily action plan to allow us to get from Point A to Point B and back home safely in a safe and efficient manner each and every day. We need to shake off the always set, never changing daily plan because such plans lead to negative outcomes when we run into an issue and have to make an immediate change of plan. Simply put, we are far too comfortable with our normal everyday daily routines which I believe have led to so many negative, unsafe outcomes that could have been prevented a long time ago.

So, when you feel down and out, take a listen to the short, 30-second spiritual rendition of "I Believe in You & Me," an old song from the Late Great Whitney Houston that I sang especially for you when you have a failed plan that completely knocks you off your feet and you just need to be truly uplifted!

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