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Being a LTC is about using years of experience and training to prepare younger soldiers to preform and survive in combat and helping to shape the Army of the future.

I enjoyed mentoring and leading younger officers. I also enjoyed working at the operational level, designing operations that involved units across the globe, synchronizing their actions on one objective.

I once made an error in judgement that resulted in the deaths of the wrong people. Their faces still bother me.

I know this sounds trite, but always do your best in whatever assignment given. I ended up commanding twice, once was a recruiting company, a position I held for over four years. It was one of the hardest periods of my twenty-plus years as an officer. That said, this time helped me in a wide variety of ways.