Whipped Cream Difficulties

I don’t want this to dissolve into “All Mattis, All The Time”.

But this story made me choke up almost as much as the Christmas story did.

…General Mattis was just doing what he saw as his job: taking care of those who had served him and their country so bravely, and not once looking for recognition.

I also like this because it calls back to two recurring “Leadership Secrets” tropes:

• “Know your stuff. Be a man. Look after your men.”
• “…I’ve never known him to say whether he was cold or hot, wet or dry, sick or well; but I’ve never known him forget a man who was.”

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