The Surface Force Is Not Broken
Proceedings Magazine - September 2017 Vol.
In the course of guaranteeing my fitness to assume command of the USS Scout (MCM-8) and her extraordinary crew, I have endeavored for nearly two decades to develop my abilities as a leader, warrior, and mariner.
In the tradition of our forebears, and as advised by John Paul Jones, I’ve labored to become “a gentleman of liberal education and refined manners,” a man of tact, patience, justice, firmness, kindness, charity, “punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor.” I strive to be unfailing in distinguishing error from malice and well-meant shortcomings from heedless or stupid blunder.
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