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

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And 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 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 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.

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.