It’s tough moving a family around. Just ask retired Gen. David Grange, executive vice president of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, who commanded units in the Army’s Delta Force, Rangers and Green Berets–and is a dad.
‘It’s much more difficult to move a few children than it is to move thousands of troops.”
Not only do you have toplan ahead, but you have to continue to brief the plan every day until it’s executed.”
The most important aspect of planning is washroom availability. The other key one is making sure you have a detailed, understood plan from the other parents on the pick-up time for their kids.”
The more adults the better.
For one, it’s a control challenge. And two, you want to make sure you have someone to talk to.”
If you bring food with you, you can eat at an off-site location and not worry about behavior in a restaurant. The bad side is that normally you forget it somewhere–in the trunk of the car or on the bus.”
Adult culmination*[exhaustion] hits you between the four- and six-hour mark.’*
Friday suspects that this may occur much sooner for those who are not Special Forces qualified.
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