Leonard Wong on Honesty and Ethics in the Military
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I Didn't Do It for Me, I Did It for the Troops
The persona of an army officer is a selfless servant, and usually army officers view themselves as focused on two things- the mission and the troops. And so if you put down a deluge of requirements, then you're harassing the troops and we can't get the mission done. So it's my job as a leader to form a shield around the soldiers and say, you know what? We're not going to spend time on what I call dumb requirements."
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