David Jordan

Lieutenant

Military service has imbued me with a sense of urgency, respect and tolerance for others. It has trained me to apologize when I'm five seconds late to a client meeting and review emails multiple times. It prevents me from using single spaces and double spaces after periods in the same document. Most importantly, it makes me consider the experiences that a person has gone through in life before making judgments and to find the right role for whatever basket of skills a person brings to the table.

Being a veteran means that an individual has experienced unacknowledged and extended discomfort, fear, loneliness, stress, grief, exhaustion, risk of health or life, and heavy responsibility in the service of others, and who was confronted overwhelming and frightening challenges - sometimes successfully and sometimes not - with little help.