As he laced up his skates that day, he knew he wasn’t going to be the best on the ice—far from it. Throughout the course of the next hour, he would spend most of his time trying to make contact with the puck and focus on not falling too hard while the game buzzed on around him. Of course, he wasn’t out on the ice because he was a key contributor to the team or because they needed one more guy to make a team. He was out there because he was critical to the mission of 7Element.
You see, when a warrior returns to civilian life after serving in the armed forces, the adjustment can be quite difficult.