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discipline and leadership training, in my senior year, I was promoted to
Battalion Officer. My job was then ro teach leadership to underclassmen
who were just like me when I entered the school - little con artists who
thought they could beat the system.

The Biggest Lessons OfAll

After four years of the academy, I volunteered for the Marine Corps
because the Vietnam War was still going. It was in Navy flight school that I
had two life-defining lessons that have served me welL They are:

1. One ofthe most exciting parts offlight training was learning how
to fight aircraft to aircraft, often called a dogfight. The aircraft we
flew at the time was a T-28 Trojan, a single-engine World War II
vintage aircraft. It was big, fast and unforgiving. Many a student
died because the aircraft was designed to be agileand maneuverable.
If you were not a good pilot, the aircraft could kill you.

One day, I was flying solo, on the lookout for my instructor who
was going to jump me. Suddenly, I heard screaming through my
helmet's earpiece: "Bang, bang, bang, bang!" It was the instructor
letting me know the fight was on. Immediately, I did as I was taught,
shoving the fuel mixture to rich to protect the engine and pulling
the aircraft up to the right and rolling it over, trying to shake my
attacker.

Instead oflosing him, all I could hear was, "Bang, bang, bang, got
you, sucker."I could not shake my instructor. I climbed, I turned, I
dove, I tried to stall, but nothing could shake him. I could barely
see because my face shield was covered in sweat. For a good 10
minutes, my instructor rode my tail, not fooled by any ofmy evasive
maneuvers.
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~ l Back on the ground, the debriefing began. As my instructor used
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his hands to describe my flying, I got sick to my stomach. My ill
feeling was not just because of the violent maneuvers we had just

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