Subject: ALERT Alumni Update | November 2023
ALERT Alumni Update | November 2023
November 29th, 2023 at 2:55 pm CDTNovember 28, 2023 Dear Alumni, ALERT's 2023 training year is complete! The days are long, and the weeks are short here at the Academy, and my team and I are looking forward to the winter furlough for sure. After putting 76 men through Basic Traini ...
ALERT Update | November 28, 2023
November 28th, 2023 at 4:00 pm CDTNovember 28, 2023 Young men today are in a crisis. For example, in the 53 largest developed nations, boys fall behind girls in almost every academic subject, especially reading and writing. Boys are far more likely to drop out of both high school and ...
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November 24th, 2023 at 2:32 pm CDTHello, As I look around the world that we live in today, a world full of broken families, substance abuse and addiction, wars in Europe and the Middle East, and a society retreating into social media, smartphones, and digital isolation, I am continua ...
ALERT Update | November 21, 2023
November 21st, 2023 at 2:00 pm CDTNovember 21, 2023 As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, I am reminded again with how much we have to be thankful for here at ALERT. Last Friday we celebrated the graduation of Unit 68 and the end of the fall training quarter. Ten men graduated, ha ...
ALERT Update | November 14, 2023
November 14th, 2023 at 6:30 pm CDTNovember 14, 2023 Camaraderie is built when we do hard things together. During my trip with the Tech Rescue class to Mount Magazine in Arkansas last week, there were a lot of opportunities to build camaraderie. We had to work as a team all day, and o ...
Humanitarian Service Opportunity
November 8th, 2023 at 9:00 am CDTNovember 1, 2023 Dear alumni, I was contacted by Cpl. Peter Janowski (Unit 30) about a unique humanitarian need in the West Bank. As you know, Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7, and Israel declared war on Hamas shortly after. At the time, Pet ...
ALERT Update | November 7, 2023
November 7th, 2023 at 3:30 pm CDTNovember 7, 2023 This Friday Unit 69 will advance out of Basic Training. For many guys, myself included, Basic Training was one of the hardest, if not the hardest thing they have ever done. There is the physical hardship of the hikes, daily PT, and s ...