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The value of good leadership

can clearly remember the night when I began to grasp what a Royal Marine Green Beret stands for. It was mid-winter during a long and exhausting exercise on Dartmoor. At five in the morning, not having stopped for days, my buddy and I were digging a trench in purposefully chosen stony ground. The night had been eternal, the blisters from digging were multiple, snow was melting behind our ears to run down our necks, and

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