Anyone who has had the pleasure of enduring 62 days of the Army’s premier leadership school knows that is always best to quit Ranger School in the morning. Ranger School is Groundhog Day on steroids. You may have heard a Ranger School graduate
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I Still Have Heroes
Last Friday, I had the opportunity to bring Atlanta Braves Hall of Famer Dale Murphy to Columbus, Ga. for an All-Star Leadership Luncheon. The crowd included some real All-Stars in our military community, but everyone was there to see “the
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I took my son Luke to his first Auburn football game last weekend. Although the Penn State Nittany Lions took the Tigers to the proverbial woodshed, it was a great father-son day at one of the nation’s premier college football venues. As a child
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I am a sucker for a good quote. Whether it be George Washington or Yogi Berra, I enjoy a well-timed phrase that provides an elementary response to a seemingly complex conundrum. For instance, if someone says, “if you think you can or think
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I am a pretty basic man. I love the Lord. I love my family and friends. And, as a native of the Great State of Ohio - I love college football. For four-plus decades, my New Year has begun in late November on the Sunday after The Game between the
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During my fifth deployment in the Global War on Terror, I was blessed to be a member of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment. We operated south of Baghdad in Salman Pak. My unit was commanded by then-LTC Michael Shrout, a man devoted to
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