Carl Forsling

"Don’t be ashamed to have a good time this Memorial Day — that’s part of the gift that’s been bestowed to you"

The best and worst thing about being in the military is that it is all-consuming.

The Corps has acted as a second land army so many times it’s flipped the dessert with the main course.

The 21st century military shouldn’t work and train like the 19th century

Hopefully we’ll come to recognize more forms of courage than just “going downrange,” and it turns out even your grocer has some.

Perhaps the military is learning about the sunk cost fallacy.

Be careful out there.

[shortcode-Op-Ed-disclosure] A recent RAND study on military compensation has recently garnered some attention, with the main takeaway of many being...

Please stop.

"The military is not a safe space," Rowe said.

Former military officers commenting on military matters have valuable perspectives. On anything outside of that, their opinion is worth no more or less than anyone else's

Hazing represents the opposite [of discipline]... it is the product of a lack of self-control and laziness.

We see ourselves as upholding a higher standard. We aren't just some overgrown banana republic. We're a "shining city on a hill."

The U.S. has to make hard choices about whether spending that money is worth it. Unfortunately, our approach has been that of the Yankees great Yogi Berra. "When faced with a fork in the road, take both."

'Apocalypse Now' might be the first example of people in the military turning a movie meant to highlight the horrors of war into a motivational video about killing the enemy

Berger has rightly decided that the way the Marines' plans for amphibious assaults isn't going to work going forward, as a "Sands of Iwo Jima" redux will end with thousands of dead Marines and Sailors at the bottom of the ocean.

While the SEALs seem to have conduct issues disproportionate to the size of their organization, this idea that service — especially combat service — somehow earns one a free pass, seems to have some currency today.

Popcorn sales will be through the roof in 2020, but recruitment numbers won't skyrocket like they did in 1986

In the real world the number of jobs where run time and pull-ups are part of your performance evaluation is vanishingly small.

Perhaps people feel compelled to come up with these excuses because this country idolizes military service so much.

"The military owes it to itself to find outlets for exceptional individuals to contribute. Priebus owes it to the country to be honest with himself and find a more productive outlet to serve"

"As much as I'm adapting to corporate life, I wish the civilian world would take at least a few military terms onboard."

"As much as the U.S. military and veteran community says they are destigmatizing mental health treatment, it's still regarded as personal weakness and not as a health problem — and to some extent, the military's own policies promote that outlook."

Unfortunately, too many vets believe their own PR, and subscribe to what I’d call the “veteran superiority complex.”

I don't claim to have any special insight other than a combination of stumbling and success, which might be the right combination of experiences to give others some tips.