LtGen Greg Newbold USMC (Ret) – DILLICLAP & Competency are Never Out of Date

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This episode is a look towards the past and how the core of a good leader is timeless. Lt Gen Gregory Newbold, the Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) commander of Operation Restore Hope and later on the Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a leader with an unwavering desire to be responsible to those he leads. This episode provides a glimpse behind the curtain into a oft misunderstood, or even mysterious, selection process of being selected as a Marine Corps general and the gut wrenching decisions that must be made to ensure only the very very best are selected for that rank. Lt Gen Newbold discusses the acronym ‘DILLICLAP’ (Do I Look Like I Can Lead A Platoon) and how that…