As you think about posting on REV, here are some questions you can ask yourself. You can also use these ideas to create discussions.
- What keeps you up at night?
- Talk about the one person who influenced your decision to join the military.
- Who has had a big influence on you? What lessons did that person teach you?
- What do you feel most grateful for in your life?
- What are some of the most important lessons you’ve learned in your current assignments that could help a service member coming behind you?
- What encouraging things do you remember about your very first assignment?
- What are you proudest of in your military career?
- How did you prepare your family for your first deployment?
- How has your military career been different than what you’d imagined when you made the decision to serve?
- How would you like to be remembered long after you’re gone?
- Do you have any regrets?
- What are your hopes for retirement?
- Is there anything you want your team to know about you that they likely don’t know?
- What traits do you admire in other service members with whom you serve?
- Talk about the hardest thing you’ve ever done in the military.
- Besides your mom, who knows you best and why?
- Who is the most dependable person in your unit, and why do you think so?
- What was your worst assignment? What positive ways did you handle getting through it?
- What’s something you changed your mind about recently?
- What is the scariest thing you’ve ever done for fun?
- How do you make a positive impact in your unit?
- Talk about the best project you ever worked on.
- Why did you decide to join the military?
- What do you know now that you wish you’d known before you joined the military?
- What would you want your children to remember about you when they’re grown?
- Do you prefer to donate time or money to those in need? Why?
- What is the best day of the year for you?
- What does your dream house look like?
- What is the greatest gift you have ever gotten, and what made it so great?
- What is the greatest mistake you’ve ever made?
- When did you first know you wanted to serve in the military?
- What is your greatest fear and why?
- What is your most deeply held belief?
- What small bit of advice would you give to someone just joining the military?
- What are you absolutely determined to accomplish in your current assignment?
- Who has impressed you most with what they’ve accomplished?
- How do you relax after a hard day?
- Where do you usually go when you have time off?
- What risks have you taken that were worth it?
- Who inspires you to be better?
- What do you have doubts about?
- What’s the hardest lesson you’ve learned?
- What challenging thing are you working through these days?
- Which of your scars has the best story behind it?
- What were some of the turning points in your life?
- What are some personal rules you never break?
- What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received?
- When was the last time you changed your opinion or belief about something major?
- What are some events that made you who you are today?
- What do you think makes your leaders good ones in your opinion?
- Tell us a story of a leader who has impacted your life.
- Tell us about your hometown.
- Why is it important for leaders to be good listeners?
- In what ways have you grown as a person this year? What/who has influenced you? And what have you learned?
- What can you do or change in your life to focus more on your health and wellbeing? Be honest.
- What do you think is the most unique thing about you? Do you keep it hidden or let it show?
- What do you think is your biggest personal success? What about your biggest military success?
- What do you feel most grateful for in your life?
- What are some of the most important lessons you’ve learned so far?
- What positive things do you remember about your very first assignment?
- What are you proudest of in your life?
- What are some personal rules you never break?
- What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received?
- What small gesture from a fellow service member had the biggest impact on you?
- When was the last time you changed your opinion about something major?
- What are some events in your life that made you who you are today?