Injects

One tasking I had as a young 2nd Lieutenant was to write "injects" for a division warfighter exercise. A warfighter exercise is a simulated combat experience which focuses on Divisional/ Brigade staffs and their ability to command and control a division. All the troops are built in computers so the actual Soldiers can go about their daily business without having to suffer through yet another training exercise. What it meant to me as an inject writer was 2 more months away from my family and the opportunity to come up with all sorts of bizarre situations to put the division in to create "stress" on the staff in order to help it function at full capacity(coming from a line unit, I felt no remorse, I promise you).

We often talk about injects in the Army, both in terms of situational stuff like the warfighter, and as touch points with our troops, and I see a link to Christianity. When I give an honest look at where my "Christ injects" are on a regular basis I come up with Sundays at Chapel, dinner chow prayer, Thurs. night small group meeting, the occasional Veggie Tales, and nite-nite prayers with my 2year old. Those are all pretty scripted injects, and when viewed as being spread across a weeks worth of time don't give God a lot of "touch points". The random leishmaniasis outbreak inject is missing, I have boiled the direct fire contact down to a standard reporting format. Maybe this is just my issue, and partly why I started this blog, but I think we tend to minimize the Christian injects in our lives, and when we do that we lose the "stress" factor which builds the close relationship with God and helps us function at our full potential.