Leadership Material

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Thanks to Don Aldridge, Lt. General, USAF (ret.), former vice com-mander of the Strategic Air Command, for his help and insights on the inner workings of an Air Force promotion board, and to author and former B-52 radar nav Jim Clonts for his help on living and working on Diego Garcia.

Special thanks to my friends Larry and Maryanne Ingemanson for their generosity.

The alarm goes off at 6 a.m., the clock radio set to a soothing easy-listening music station. Air Force Colonel Norman Weir dresses in a new Nike warm-up suit and runs a couple of miles through the base, returns to his room, then listens to the news on the radio while he shaves, showers, and dresses in a fresh uniform. He walks to the Officers' Club four blocks away and has breakfast-eggs, sausage, wheat toast, orange juice, and coffee-while he reads the morning paper. Ever since his divorce three years earlier, Norman starts every workday exactly the same way.

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