Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.