Welcome to Citizen. We have no guests today, but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk

a little bit about servant leadership. It's a concept that I first learned about from people in my

chain of command back in the day. Primarily two of my first sergeants, two men that remain friends of mine to this day,

Joseph Singer House, who's actually been on set as you guys have heard from him before, and then

Kenneth Johnson, who's not been on yet, but I will have him on now that he is retired. And then you know,

further exploration by me into this subject led me to a man named Robert Greenleaf, who I think in one

of the first episodes of the show Baker Levin actually mentioned because he's a big fan of Robert

Greenleaf as well. But it's something that's always struck me, and it's one of our principles. As you know, no

matter where I am, I'll be a leader in leaders' eat last. And the idea is that leadership isn't just about being in control of other

people. It's about, it is about the exercise of, in my opinion, masculinity, which is to say, to provide and protect for

your family. You know, the concept of servant leadership is obviously time. It's one of those things at

time. It's why it's a principle. It isn't something that the circumstances may change over time. So the application of the

principle may change as circumstances do, but the principle itself never changes. The idea that you are beholden to the people that are

subordinate to you through whatever reason, whether it's your family, whether it is people that you work with, or whether it's just

people who are weaker in a certain area than you are. Meaning, you know, if you're able to perform a necessary task like, you

know, defense or provision or anything like that, then you have a responsibility to do so, right? And then Robert Greenleaf in the servant as a

leader, which is an essay he first published in 1970, I highly recommend it. If you search for it, you can find a PDF of it for free on the internet.

He introduced the term servant leadership, although it is, it has gone back, you know, many, many years, the principle. But

one of his quotes is, the servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve to serve first.

Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The person is sharply different from one who is a leader first, perhaps because of the need to

assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions. The leader first and the servant first are two extreme types. Between them, there are

shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature. Now, I want to jump in to what that means, the person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to

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