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General Stanley McChrystal

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

The Progression of a Soldier's Career

As a young lieutenant, I think as most young lieutenants, my first assignment was as a platoon leader. But then you find that the leadership aspect is what is very, very interesting and very challenging. And so I started to find after really just a couple of years in the army that I was reasonably good at it. But I also found that I very much liked it. So they talk about leadership. They make leadership the core of what you're thinking about. That's correct. It has to be a big training and leadership factory because everybody who's in enters the army by definition is not already a soldier. As a, as a young soldier, you're right, very junior

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