Integrity Express Logistics
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like to put goals on myself and it has to go
back to that.
“I was always very competitive in sports, but
the military kind of gave you a focus and a
disciplined approach about how to do it.
And once I deployed, that was a game-
changer formementally.”
Steger took that approach to Iraq,
Afghanistan and across the Horn of Africa
as part of the Air Force’s Global Hawk
program, a high-altitude platform for
surveillance and security that allows
personnel to collect intelligence for more
precise weapons targeting and better
protectionof friendly forces.
He led a groupof 40men andwomen as part
of the operation, an endeavor which
provided a confidence level he’d not have
attained elsewhere while simultaneously
allowing him to establish the logistics street
cred that he ultimately decided to put to use
upon returning home in late 2006.