Challenges

What happens when a unit has to go through a minefield? In a perfect world, they'd wait for Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams to clear it. In reality, the one EOD guy in the Battalion teaches hundreds of suddenly very attentive grunts how to poke around in the dirt with pointy things and hope nothing goes boom. That's more preparation than veterans get for the challenges of transitioning out of the service. That process can be just as deadly as a field of bouncing betty's but veterans aren't given a pointy stick to clear their path. Hell, most of us don't [...]