“Unpopular Choices” — How the Army Taught Me To Embrace Unpopularity

Talking to my company on what we needed to accomplish before redeploying

Sometimes making unpopular choices can be challenging. This is especially true if it goes against everything your mind and body want to do. The Army taught me how to embrace this, though. When I was deployed as a Tech Supply NCOIC, my job was demanding but rewarding. As an SSA leader, the responsibility of leading people to accomplish a sometimes impossible mission became…