The Hardcore Battalion

"I couldn't sit here and put a percentage on it from a leadership from a combat leadership perspective," he says. "It is a pretty significant amount of confirming things that I believed, learning new things ... understanding them so that it definitely is a, is a significant portion of something." He adds: "If there was satisfaction in that, there was much less in the fact that my success didn't make a dent in the way the war was prosecuted"