Risk Management Magazine

After returning home from a year in Afghanistan, I couldn’t wait to take a nice, relaxing trip with family and friends.

For a line company pilot on deployment, things can become very routine. We often perform daily operations without being able to account for every step needed to accomplish our final goal.

I’ve been told many times in my Army aviation career that it’s the little things that will come up and bite you. While this bit of advice has served me well throughout my career and life in general, an accident that happened to a fellow aviator several years ago really drove home this point.