Posted on Feb 5, 2014
Whats the best thing you feel you have done for your country while in the military
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Share with us all what you feel like is the best thing you have done for your Country since you joined your Military Branch.
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Posted 12 y ago
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I focused on leader development. That's the first thing my CSM and I did when we took charge of1-14 Cavalry. It guided everything else we built. It was used in training guidance and calendars. It was briefed at every Training Brief to the CG. It is our legacy. The future of the Army is the most important thing we can leave behind. You can be a leader, and not build leaders except through osmosis. Sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes being the example doesn't get through some people and you have to provide focus and direction to something that sometimes feels amorphous. Building the future leaders of this nation is something that is rare everywhere else in society. A civilian boss doesn't want you to take his job. A military boss does. HUGE difference in the way you train and prepare people. If civilians had that same attitude, companies would grow exponentially.
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Sir, rgr. Some of my most rewarding experiences from 296 didn't occur while in the unit as the SPO, but in the past three years through former Frontline troops reaching out to me soliciting feedback or advice. Being a part of developing the future is surreal, and something I don't think we can ever measure or even teach. From an organizational approach perspective, I see "Leader Development" falling into the infamous "Lines of Effort"....but have to think that it really falls in-line with absolutely everything an organization does---from both the operational and organizational efforts.
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LOE. Nice. If we want to get strategical and docturnal about it, we can make it the big arrow that goes behind all the other arrows...like the safety LOE. Sweet jeebus. Too many LOE's at the tactical level. I like to think of it as training and command climate. Not going to put those on an LOE at the BN level either. I'm going to write an OPORD that lays it out sequentially. If the CG wants to see arrows, I'll make a SAMS chart.
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Saving lives, and supporting the fighting man during my service in Vietnam 68-69 as a helicopter crew chief, Also being a Marine leader as a Drill Instructor, and as a First Sergeant.
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Brought all of my subordinates home unscathed. Dumb luck, good training, whatever, I'll take it.
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A job well done after a convoy mission where no one was injured .One time one of our ASV was hit by a roadside bomb and everyone knew what to do.
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Standing up against the illegal policies and infringements against our soldiers, veterans and their families - helping them develop hope where before there was only despair.
Before that was to join Airborne and Special Forces units during an unpopular war.
Before that was to join Airborne and Special Forces units during an unpopular war.
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Being the best Conduit for Command and Control that I could be and teaching others my sikill sets, Embracing the New without Forgetting the Old. For someone that Hated School by the time I retired I was pretty good at teaching the next generation of Spooks.
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I had many great moments with the men I served with during my service for our great country, but saving the life of one of my soldiers through CPR during a field exercise at Fort Stewart Georgia(1978) is probably at the top of the list. I was a 2LT in my very first field exercise, fresh out of Ranger School.Â
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I think that the best thing that I have done for my country while serving in the military is going to my daughter 4th grade class telling the mean be hide the stars and strips. Showed them how to fold her, and how to take of her.
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When I was deployed to HOA as a CA soldier, our missions were humanitarian. In the desert on a MEDCAP, I used my laptop hooked to a one-eye and showed the locals movies on the wall. The kids had no idea what they were saying but loved the movies. I even was thanked by the tribe leader. Was an awesome feeling. Then when we were in Tanzania, the appreciation we received for the VETCAP Missions. Those memories will always remain.
One of my dreams is that a child I played soccer with (and got beaten badly) grows up and when approached by "the bad guys" refuses because he knows what we did for his family.
One of my dreams is that a child I played soccer with (and got beaten badly) grows up and when approached by "the bad guys" refuses because he knows what we did for his family.
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