As I was talking to the men in the Battalion the other day, I communicated the importance of having a relationship with our Heavenly Father. I was thinking of Galatians 4:9: “But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back...

When I was a student here at ALERT back in 2009, I was constantly told that the training we received here was "top-notch". Not having taken many classes outside of ALERT up to that point, I would just shrug my shoulders and hope that was correct. A few years later, I...

Back in September of 2020, I was with a team of ALERT guys driving back from deployment.  At some point the topic of the ALERT brotherhood came up. I had my thoughts as to how ALERT fosters such a close bond between men, but I wanted to see what the guys thought,...

The other day I was reminiscing with an ALERT man about an 8 hour PT we had done together. We were laughing at some of the idiosyncrasies that go into completing an eight hour PT. Looking back, I can see that if it wasn’t for that shared hardship, we wouldn’t have the...

“Why the marching and the yelling?” When people ask me why we train the way we do at ALERT—all the marching, inspections, yelling, and uniforms—I say “discipline.” Paul talks about disciplining his body (1 Corinthians 9:27), and yet he also recognizes that “by the...

How would you answer the question “what is the Gospel?” This is the question we have been digging into this last week in our 2nd Phase class. We have been studying evangelism and the call on every believer to be an ambassador of his King, Christ Jesus. Do we live life...