Join Mike & Friends for "SITREP...How Are You?" with Warriors for Life (WFL) TONIGHT - Invite a Friend!
- Col (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
- 10 hours ago
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Join our Volunteer, Army Combat Medic Veteran, & Music Writer/Producer Mike Williams TONIGHT for "Mike Check" edition of Warriors for Life (WFL) Online, sponsored and presented by Victory for Veterans, Inc. (VFV).
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TONIGHT's Topic: "SITREP...How Are You?"
Join Mike & Friends TONIGHT for a discussion about "SITREP...How Are You?" An invitation to talk and share.
"Talk and share" can refer to the general practice of engaging in conversation to exchange ideas, what's on your mind, and personal growth. The context determines the specific meaning, but the core idea involves communication, collaboration, and the mutual exchange of thoughts and experiences.
"Real strength isn’t the armor we wore—it’s the courage," speaks to the idea that genuine power comes from vulnerability and authenticity, not from the defenses we build to protect ourselves
Radio check.
Old friends key the mic across the years,
voices braided with static and memory.
Call sign to call sign, we ask the same thing
without ceremony: Send SITREP.
We report victories like sunrise over the wire—
small, bright, earned with blisters and stubborn hope:
a clean landing, a ruck dropped, a laugh at chow,
the night we all made it to dawn.
We report failures too—the ones with no paperwork:
words we didn’t say, doors we didn’t open,
the weight that didn’t leave when we set the pack down.
Joys and sorrows share a cot.
Joys are coffee steaming in a paper cup,
a letter read until the corners soften,
a child’s drawing taped to a locker.
Sorrows are empty chairs at crowded tables,
boots by the door that no one moves,
a silence that knows your first name.
Brotherhood is a hand that finds your shoulder
in a blackout and squeezes twice: I’m here.
Isolation is the same hand in a different room,
reaching through a screen that won’t warm your palms.
We learned to stand watch for one another;
some nights the hardest watch is over ourselves.
Copy this: We served in intense weather—
dust in the teeth, rain in the bones, time heavy as armor.
We carried radios and each other.
We carried what fit in a cargo pocket and what didn’t.
We mastered ROE and routes and routines
then came home to maps no one issued.
So here’s the honest traffic:
No need to pretty it up for the logbook.
No need to say “All green” when the dashboard flickers.
Check your gauges. Breathe.
If you’re low on fuel, say low on fuel.
If you’re drifting, mark your drift.
SITREP: Victories and failures acknowledged.
SITREP: Joys and sorrows accounted for.
SITREP: Brotherhood intact even when the room is empty.
And beneath every coded word, the real message:
I’m asking the question that matters more than orders,
more than plans and after-action report —
the human question that kept us alive then
and can keep us alive now:
How are you?
Send when ready. No wrong answers.
I’m on your net. I’ll copy whatever you say.
Over.
TONIGHT Mike Williams shares his song "SITREP...How Are You?"
Warriors for Life (WFL) Online "Mike Check" edition presented by Victory for Veterans, Inc. (VFV) — Tuesday (TONIGHT), September 2, 2025, @ 4:30 PM PT, 5:30 PM MT, 6:30 PM CT, & 7:30 PM ET
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83145057228
Thank you,
Mike Williams,
Army Combat Medic Veteran, Music Writer/Producer, & Volunteer Facilitator, Victory for Veterans, Inc. (VFV)