Subject: ALERT Update | December 19, 2023
ALERT Update | December 19, 2023
December 19th, 2023 at 2:00 pm CSTDecember 19, 2023 As we wrap up the year and prepare to celebrate Christmas, I wanted to share a Christmas devotional I read: And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in s ...
ALERT Update | December 12, 2023
December 12th, 2023 at 2:00 pm CSTDecember 12, 2024 We are really excited about the 30 year reunion taking place February 8-11, 2024 here in Big Sandy. We’ve already got a bunch of guys who have registered, and are working on finalizing the schedule of events. Highlights include a ...
ALERT Alumni Update | December 2023
December 11th, 2023 at 5:59 pm CSTDecember 11, 2023 Dear Alumni, During these final weeks of the year, the ALERT staff and I take a couple of days to sit down and hold end of year meetings. We spend time looking back on where we have been and where we are going. All it takes is a ...
ALERT Update | December 5, 2023
December 5th, 2023 at 6:47 pm CSTDecember 5, 2023 As we start into the season of Advent and look towards Christmas, I want to keep the end of the Christmas story in mind: the Gospel. One of my favorite Christmas songs, How Low Was Our Redeemer Brought, beautifully captures both the ...
The Sergeants Club | November 2023
November 30th, 2023 at 7:04 pm CSTHello, First of all, I apologize if you got a duplicate email. I sent the email from the wrong address on accident. We have one month left, and then we are on to 2024. In that month we have to finish out 2023, do all our end of year meetings, plan f ...
ALERT Alumni Update | November 2023
November 29th, 2023 at 2:55 pm CSTNovember 28, 2023 Dear Alumni, ALERT's 2023 training year is complete! The days are long, and the weeks are short here at the Academy, and my team and I are looking forward to the winter furlough for sure. After putting 76 men through Basic Traini ...
ALERT Update | November 28, 2023
November 28th, 2023 at 4:00 pm CSTNovember 28, 2023 Young men today are in a crisis. For example, in the 53 largest developed nations, boys fall behind girls in almost every academic subject, especially reading and writing. Boys are far more likely to drop out of both high school and ...
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November 24th, 2023 at 2:32 pm CSTHello, As I look around the world that we live in today, a world full of broken families, substance abuse and addiction, wars in Europe and the Middle East, and a society retreating into social media, smartphones, and digital isolation, I am continua ...
ALERT Update | November 21, 2023
November 21st, 2023 at 2:00 pm CSTNovember 21, 2023 As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, I am reminded again with how much we have to be thankful for here at ALERT. Last Friday we celebrated the graduation of Unit 68 and the end of the fall training quarter. Ten men graduated, ha ...
ALERT Update | November 14, 2023
November 14th, 2023 at 6:30 pm CSTNovember 14, 2023 Camaraderie is built when we do hard things together. During my trip with the Tech Rescue class to Mount Magazine in Arkansas last week, there were a lot of opportunities to build camaraderie. We had to work as a team all day, and o ...