DAUNTLESS: Leadership Lessons From the Frontline

I look down at my boots and wait for the humiliation that is sure to come when someone is forced to take me in their team as the last option.

“I’ll take Rach,” says Fred.

And with that decision, he changes the whole shape of my military career and everything I think about myself.

During chopper flights into unsecured airfields, on the receiving end of a face-ripping, through the hijinks of field life and into the moments before setting off on patrol in Afghanistan, Rach Ranton explores the act...