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What I do beyond the keyboard — and why it matters to the work.
Led a local American Legion post through three consecutive terms — managing membership, programming, veteran outreach, and legislative advocacy. The Legion is where military service meets civil obligation, and it shaped how I think about organizational leadership.
Working inside the VA gives me a front-row seat to how large bureaucracies serve (and sometimes fail) the people who need them most. That tension — between mission and machinery — informs a lot of what I write about institutions, policy, and leadership.
Military service is the foundation. It instilled operational discipline, mission clarity, and the understanding that leadership is a responsibility, not a title. Everything since has been built on that base.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.— Rudyard Kipling, Tommy