Drop a name - who is the best Leader/Manager/Comander you ever worked for?

I was fortunate to have superior leadership throughout my career, beginning with Basic Training, but it all began with a JROTC NCO in high school. SGM Thomas taught us that our attitude was our greatest asset and burden.

COL. The best I had was a no nonsense COL by the name of COL Greene. Very strict, chew your butt off and it was said and done. He would say what he intended and it never came back on you. Unless you were a complete screw-up.

CW4 John Sewell. Best damn Warrant I ever worked for. He took an active interest in his team and pulled my butt out of a crack a few times when I was young and dumb.

My Mentor and inspiration was Brigadier General John (Jack) L. Jones (RET). In 1973, he was a captain and the S-3Air of my Battalion at the time and I was an SP-4 Medic. He saw something in me and encouraged me to go to OCS which I subsequently completed and was commissioned a 2LT. I also worked for Colonel Gregory Schrubbe (RET) (West Point Class of 1971) who was a LTC and Operation Officer assigned to the DCSTRANS / 318 TAMCA during the First Gulf War in 1990. I worked directly for him assigned as the Theater Tasking Officer and Redeployment Officer for the 22nd Support Command. I consider him to be the brightest, finest and most energetic officer that I ever worked for. He was not only an inspiration to me but I was able to learn much under his command.

Captain John R. Barrett. He was CO of the Air Traffic Control Comm Squadron at McConnell when I was stationed there in mid 70s. He had a unique ability to find the best in each of us under his charge and knew how to turn negatives into positives. He also knew when to "advise" of regulations and suggest a corrective action before something became a real issue...like when he found my .357Mag stored in a wall locker in the barracks instead of in the base armory.

My best leader was a mustang LT. came back from Vietnam a major but had to go to 1st LT to keep his commission.

SGM Lindsay from the 101st DSTB back in our 08-09 deployment to Afghanistan. Hell of a leader and he worked to keep everyone sane over there for our 15 months.

Lt.Col (ret.) Mike Tetu

Capt. O.K. Evans was unlike any other. We had our rank in the open and were respected confidants behind closed doors... A REAL leader...

1SG Edward Peterson