In the Navy 0
This has been Big News in these parts, the home of the largest complex of military bases in the world and the home port of the U. S. S. Enterprise:
Last night, a friend of mine who is retired Navy came over to help me watch football (we picked the most exciting bowl game so far), so I asked him what he thought about the “XO videos” (follow the link above and look on the left side of the page for links to selected edited videos).
He dismissed Captain Honors’s apologists and defenders with a snort: “That’s not leadership.”
It reminds me of those parents who think they should be “pals” with their kids. However pure their motives, they usually end up as ineffective parents and not-very-good pals, however much fun they and their kids might have had along the way.
