The Voice of what DOD is Reading….
The real-life experiences and leadership stories portrayed in “24/7: The First Person You Must Lead is YOU” by Brigadier General (Ret.) Rebecca Halstead is filled with humor, candor, and insights that capture one’s attention.
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The real-life inspiration for the blockbuster films Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School trains the top one
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Luke Schneider is living his dream today. Not only is he a firefighter paramedic for the city of Rockford, Illinois, but he’s the founder of a rapidly growing company that roasts specialty coffee and directly supports first responders who have been injured on the job, mentally or physically, or who are facing serious illness.
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James N. Mattis was the first Trump presidential cabinet nominee and received nearly unanimous, bipartisan support for his nomination, with only one disapproval. He received a rare waiver of the guidelines that exclude recently active military leaders from the position of Secretary of Defense. What could create such unprecedented unity, even enthusiasm, in the hyper-partisan political rancor of 2017?
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One of my favorite quotes is from Eleanor Roosevelt.Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to
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“Reflections on Reading,”Naval War College Review: Vol. 65 : No. 2 , Article 19.
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“Reflections on Reading,”Naval War College Review Vol. 63 : No. 1 , Article 23.
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If you do the incredible often enough, they’ll want you to do the impossible.
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Reflections on Reading By John E. Jackson Naval War College Review: Vol. 73 : No. 2 , Article 14.
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Andrew Carroll tells General John Pershing’s story perhaps in the best way it should be told and as the general himself might have approved
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Ask around your local VFW about what a military police soldier does for a living.
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Vol. 73 : No. 1 , Article 19.
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Professor James Holmes set out to write a compact introduction to the Maritime Strategy that could easily be read by junior officers and policymakers in their spare time.
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For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and feature films. Yet the men and women who served in less visible roles, never engaging in physical combat, have received scant attention.
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Jarhead: Anthony Swofford Jarhead is a first-person account of Cpl. Anthony Swofford’s[1] experiences as a Marine Corporal between the years
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