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In 1998, I retired from the United States Navy after a 21 plus year career. During my career, I had seen the Navy from the standpoint of an enlisted man and a commissioned officer. And, equally, I had seen the Navy from the cruiser/destroyer ship approach and mindset...

United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico Virginia – October 1995 The following is a true story. The morning of October 25, 1995, I was a student at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia.  I went to the...

During the economic downturn of 2008, many of us have heard terms like outsourcing accentuated and expounded upon to explain why American jobs have gone overseas to foreign competition. This is my personal story as a workforce development professional in...

The Present If you were to look up the word culminate, you would find that it means…to reach a point of highest development. This is exactly what happened on June 25, 2017, at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center, in Hampton, Virginia, at a summit...