My Message
I served thirty years as an officer of Marines. Through the experience I learned several lessons:
Leaders must be highly disciplined.
Leaders know they can't control others if they can't first control themselves.
Leaders set strict priorities for themselves and resist the temptation to engage in nonproductive pursuits.
Good leaders always set the example.
Leaders do what is right regardless of the consequences, always maintaining the high standards they have set.
In Vietnam I did, and my Marines did what we were sent there to do; followed orders and considering the restraints under which we were operating, I think we did damn well.
Marines don't say that they can do the job; they do it.
That's why Americans believe in us. I swear to God.
That is one thing I always remembered; if I got shot, a Marine would never leave me on the battlefield. Marines got killed going to the aid of other Marines. That is something we know and we are proud of it.
AND LEAD! If you can't stand up and lead, then get the hell out of the way. Someone else will do it. Don't tell your people with your hands on your hips to run around the grinder. You be up front running and let them follow you.
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