Fear is Inevitable. Get Used To It — Here’s How the Army Helped Me Through Every Career Change

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Parachuting onto the 50-yard line is an unusual way to arrive at a football game.

As a West Point senior on the sport parachute team, I joined several classmates leaping from a helicopter and landing inside Michie Stadium with the game ball.

At the academy, I got hooked on jumping out of aircraft — Huey and Blackhawk helicopters, Twin Otters, Cessnas, even from the ramp of a giant Air Force C-5 transport plane. I tallied more than 450 jumps over four years. In hindsight, those experiences helped prepare me for a career where I’ve repeatedly parachuted into a new role, big challenge

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