May 2017
Corie had an amazing opportunity to go to Misawa Air Force Base, Japan to lead 120 women through the Gallup StrengthsFinders. This full day workshop event not only invested in each person’s individual talents, but also in learning how to work better with others. It was an amazing opportunity to invest in an OCONUS installation that often struggles with isolation and depression while being so disconnected from the states. Lasting relationships were built during a fun and meaningful time together. Special thank you to the incredible Women’s Ministry Board for all of their hard work pulling off an incredible event! Day two was all about investing in key leaders to train them up as Coaches in the Gallup StrengthsFinder- a perfect opportunity for mentoring those who attended the outreach event the day before!
Catch up on Past Briefs:
Issue 2: The Rhetoric of Lethality
The vocabulary of and toward the military has narrowed to a single attribute — and the person who carries it has been edited out.
Maximum lethality. Hunt, and kill. Without mercy. None of it is wrong — they are warfighters. But this brief traces where that register has worked, where it has failed, and what it asks of the people who must live inside it.
Issue 1: Follow the Money: The Warrior Ethos, Redefined
The FY2027 $350 billion mandatory defense request, and what the Warrior Ethos banner funds now.
The language calls it the Warrior Ethos. The scope has changed. This brief walks through three connected shifts in 2026 — in words, money, and how the institution treats the people who sustain the force — and what they mean for military families.