The Havok Journal

• A Child’s Cry and the Body of Christ April 3, 2025
  I woke up tired this morning, as I do most mornings. Some of the fatigue is simply due to getting older. Some of it comes from being a full-time caregiver to a four-year-old boy. Raising our grandson, Asher, can be exhausting. In any case, I was dragging when I got up, and caffeine was of […]
  Frank Pauc
• Purpose & Connection: What Leaders Must Know About Suicide Prevention April 3, 2025
  by George Carty This first appeared in George Carty’s blog and is republished here with the author’s permission. “Today’s veterans often come home to find that although they’re willing to die for their country, they’re not sure how to live for it.” -Sebastian Junger. Photo taken in March 2020 while entering Iraqi airspace. At this […]
  Special Guest
• For all the relaxing in paradise I could have done… I was eager to return to sea. April 3, 2025
  2016 10 07 Friday I have often wondered if the people who live in rain forests have a hundred different words for rain. Much like in the movie Forest Gump where Tom Hanks goes on about all the rain he experiences I don’t think it has rained the same way twice here in the last […]
  K.C. Aud
• Invisible Wounds April 2, 2025
  by Katie S. ‘We are on the front lines.’ The most cliché phrase became a reality, but I didn’t understand it for years. I couldn’t. If you have survived a prolonged deployment and spent the majority of it going outside the wire, you’ve heard that phrase—probably often. War became normal, just a part of life […]
  Special Guest
• Victim No More: Embracing the Survivor Within April 2, 2025
  I have recently started to dislike the word “victim.” Social media, influencers, and even politicians use it so frequently that it has lost some of its original weight and significance. Too often, it is employed to oversimplify complex situations or exploit emotional responses. As law enforcement professionals, we interact daily with individuals affected by crime—ranging […]
  Ayman Kafel