Veterans make good teachers | Opinion
Secondly, learning should be integrated rather than compartmentalized. Every training officer can attest that the military is painfully thorough in implementing a building-block approach to new skills. But nevertheless, every good field exercise designed to practice a new skill situates it in a host of other necessary skills. Want to practice a frontal attack? Great.
Third, veterans know that leaders, like teachers, should cultivate a strong ethos. At troop-leading levels, military units still strive for a charismatic rather than managerial approach to leadership. Leaders have to cultivate and demonstrate real virtues and admirable character. Trust must be earned, not simply presumed, and you earn it by demonstrating the virtues and skills appropriate to your role.
Finally, veterans bring a maneuverist mindset. This just means that they are used to problem solving while sleep-deprived, under-staffed, under-funded and under pressure. And with broken equipment. I’m betting most teachers will recognize fellow travelers in the weary-but-devoted ranks of veterans. The maneuverist mindset is an approach to problem solving that does not rely on the conditions being just right and having all the latest gadgets and gizmos.
My company, Iliad Athletics, recently ran a camp for teenagers that combined functional fitness, outdoorsmanship and character development in order to provide a foundation of skills and strong character for life. Helping me run the camp were two other Marines: one an infantryman and one a lawyer. Event after event, day after grueling day, I was floored by the intensity, poise and selflessness they demonstrated.
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