When I asked the GCEITF's Gunner, CWO5 Nick Vitale, the role of leadership in cohesion and morale, he said, "it's the hinge!". Somehow everything always comes down to leadership. It's the lynchpin to so many things. Cohesion and morale - the military always unites the concepts - is incredibly important to unit performance. But it's … Continue reading Cohesion & Morale & Leadership
Unit Integrity
Cohesion – Unit Integrity
It's the little things that trip us up. When Marines began arriving at the GCEITF, leadership faced a question. Where to house the women? Marine Corps culture runs deep. Anyone who knows a Marine knows this. Things that are as natural to us as breathing, to outsiders, seem to be from another world. Things that … Continue reading Cohesion – Unit Integrity
Breaking Into the Brotherhood 