“I will never ask you to do something I can’t do myself.” That was one of the core tenets of leadership taught to me at the Naval Academy… and it was a bad one. On first glance, it’s not a bad idea to teach young leaders, “you must continue to hold yourself to the highest…
In April 2014, I received my Naval Flight Officer Wings. It was a wonderful day and marked the end of two years of flight training, but what was memorable about that day for me was receiving a piece of advice that has probably defined my career both in the air and on the ground. “You…
As a Weapons and Tactics Instructor, I’ve spent a lot, and I mean a lot, of time instructing new mission commanders in the E-2 Hawkeye. The role of the mission commander is to essentially be in charge of all tactical command and control in the battlespace vis-à-vis a crew of 5 in an E-2 Hawkeye.…
