Upside Down Under: Remember the troops during the holidays...

As a former Army first sergeant, I know all too well what it’s like to be away from home during the holidays and how it affected the morale of my troops.

Fortunately, it only happened to my unit once, but it didn’t take long to realize that despite our stoic military bearing, we were all missing the festivities at home.

There are countless personnel in the U.S. military who are on deployments for...