[Night Hides Not]

I fortunately had other COs that were awesome. I got off to a rocky start with my last battalion commander in Germany, but redeemed myself over time. He saw that I had the attributes he looked for in his officers: imagination and independence.

We both ended up at Fort Bliss at about the same time, and I worked for him again for 18 months.

[rlmorel]

Thanks for serving. Leadership is an interesting thing. I had some excellent officers I worked with. McCain was once my CO, but he was a bit of a zombie to me back then.

They treat leadership in the the civilian world quite differently, and not for the better IMO. I have had great leadership in my organization, but I know it isn’t so everywhere, that’s for sure.

I grew up in a military family and did a tour in myself, so I am very used to working in a hierarchical fashion...and I treat a chain of command in civilian life the exact same way I treated it growing up and in the Navy.

Analyzing leadership competency is a universal trait in us humans, and we can tell good leadership from bad leadership. (With the caveat that at least some of us fully see that great leadership can come from unsavory ends, and the obverse of that is also true...that poor leadership can come from gallant ends.)