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  • How the Marine Corps Trains Leaders

    06/17/2005 7:18:18 AM PDT · by Calpernia · 18 replies · 1,219+ views
    FORTUNE 75 ^ | June 27, 2005 | Interviewed by Jerry Useem
    General Peter Pace U.S. Marine Corps, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (nomination pending for chairman)—Washington, D.C. When I was a second lieutenant in Vietnam, my platoon was patrolling around Hue City, and we came to a fork in the road. I called back to my company commander, "Should I go left or right?" He said, "Go left." We went a little farther, and there was another fork. I called back again: Left or right? He said, "Go right." Then I called back a third time, and he chewed me out on the radio: "You're the lieutenant. You're...