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🗓️ 10 July 2019
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When you’re responsible to make sure the mission gets accomplished, there’s no greater tool than cool-headedness. For Brandon Pettijohn leading Marines in Afghanistan provided the opportunity to coordinate big picture responses to very specific crises. Once he discovered that dispassionate coordination was the key to being effective on the battlefield, applying it when he got back home allowed him to keep serving well past his last day as an active duty Marine.
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0:29.0 | When you're responsible to make sure the mission gets accomplished, there's no greater tool than coolheadedness. |
0:34.0 | For Brandon Petty-John, leading Marines in Afghanistan provided the opportunity to coordinate big picture responses to very specific crises. |
0:43.0 | Once he discovered that his passionate coordination was the key to being effective on the battlefield, |
0:48.0 | applying it when he got home allowed him to keep serving well past his last day as an active duty Marine. |
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