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"Soldiers don’t need a friend… they need a leader, but they need a positive leader who leads with character"

“Forks In The Road”: Seizing Opportunities And Cultivating Positive Leadership

“A Career Filled With Detours”: From SEAL to Night Stalker

Kitsy Westmoreland On Service, Family, And The Army Life

Trial by Fire and Snow: A Replacement Paratrooper at Bastogne

“Finding The Light Switch To Turn On In Cadets”: A Varied And Impactful Career In The Army And Academia

“Take The Failure”: Cheating And Redemption In The Calculus Honor Scandal

Seeking To Protect The Force: Experiences With The Wound Data And Munitions Effectiveness Team

Sustaining Relations With Civil Affairs: An Army Reserve Officer Deploying World-Wide

“Discipline, Teamwork, Trust, Readiness”: Leading Soldiers In A Counter Insurgency Fight

“How Do We Get People To Like Us And Stop Shooting At Us?”: Counterinsurgency Operations In Iraq And Afghanistan

“Long-Term Non-Specific Optimism”: Surviving The Hanoi Hilton

“Building Relationships”: A Civil Affairs NCO And Military Intelligence Officer On Counter-Insurgency In Iraq And Afghanistan

“Seeing The World In A Different Way”: 29 Years As A Soldier, An NCO, And An Officer

17 Years In Communist Captivity: “The Last Prisoner” Survives Hell On Earth

Escaping From South Vietnam: An Air Force Squadron Commander Ditches His Helicopter At Sea

“I Knew We Were Going When The Ammo Showed Up”: Transitioning From An Enlisted Tanker In Iraq To A Commissioned Aviator in Afghanistan