Risk Management Magazine

As a sergeant with the Louisiana State Police, I often respond to the scenes of fatal accidents. The hardest part of my job, however, is not seeing these tragic deaths; it’s having to tell loved ones that a family member is not coming home.

For service members, the first few weeks of reintegration after a long combat tour are crucial.

I was just four months out of flight school when I found myself deployed to Iraq. For the most part, progression was uneventful, except for those dust landings under night vision goggles.