Ep. 16: Gerry Roncolato on the U.S. Navy
School of War
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The Surface Warfare Community
I was also kind of concerned with the way in which the surface warfare community was, you know, serviced by graduates or filled by graduates out of the academy. And this struck me as holy perverse, holy perverse for an institution that is it's heritage and future. So I said, yeah, I don't want to go to school after I go to school anyway, to learn new power. So I'll go surface. But I got so much grief for that, the new power community, because they were trying to make numbers. In my experience, I would rather have an officer who can deal with reality and practically and effectively deal with other people than the number one guy in the class
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