Mentorship?

What are your thoughts on and experiences with mentorship?  In your experience has the practice helped you?  If so, how? Has a mentor helped you to see things more clearly, become a better service member, a better leader, or a better person in general?  How has this helped you to develop, has it changed your outlook or changed you for the better?  How has mentorship (or the lack of mentorship) impacted mission, morale, or overall personal or unit performance?  Also, feel free to share any concepts, observations, ideas or resources on mentorship... as well as any useful or interesting stories, the "good, the bad, or indifferent" on the subject of mentorship. This is your thread to talk about what's important to you, so please feel free to share any photos, resources, links, words of wisdom, sound files, or anything else necessary to tell your story. Now, pull up a keyboard and let's get the conversation rolling; thank you for all that you do... see you all in the discussion threads!