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MISSION FIRST: In the Deep End

Long before he ever got to West Point, or had even heard of Army West Point's Crandall Pool, Dion Hart lived his life in the deep end. He knew intuitively that meant he had better learn to swim, in the pool and out of it. Even as life lessons bombarded Dion Hart like incoming fire, he found a way not only to stay afloat, to dodge discouragement and dysfunction, but to keep moving water and everything else out of the way, powered by the example of the one person he could always count on, his mother, Leah Chavez, who gave birth to him when she was 14 years old.