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Deadly Serious; The most important innovations indeed novelties would be to return to the basics.

1) Leadership; TAKE THE BLAME. That’s the responsibility part.

Be a glutton for any hardship or danger the Led are suffering.

Your first Charge Hero is at all non combat HR and non combat training, including cybersecurity, suicide sustainment, etc. shut and lock the office and computers, and relentlessly correct all resume building and selfish promotion. To the level of Maoist self criticism on the last point, if necessary.

2) MAINTENANCE. Find, Fix and Repair the motor pool. Or ship, or Hangar. Maintenance of equipment is excellent training.

3) Basics of your assigned weapons system and then military specialty at crew level.

Then crew up. Train, and get rid of the paperwork.

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Great work, Bruce, and Happy New Year! One of my favorite subjects is how we educate officers and how that education shapes the tenor and capabilities of an army. I downloaded everything!

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