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Fridays With Joe - Week 31

What better way to end this military-themed week than with today’s historic promotion of Gen. Anne Dunwoody, to the rank of Four-Star; making her first female to attain that title.  In her 33 years of service Dunwoody has consistently exemplified excellence in all she has done and will continue that in her new role as head of the Army Material Command.  (Full Story)

I don’t know Gen. Dunwoody, but I do know that achieving the rank of Four-Star is an incredible feat (there are only 40 current Four Stars in all of the U.S. Armed Forces).  I’ve asked some of my friends in the military what it takes to earn that status, and they all said pretty much the same thing: “be excellent at everything you do for a long time.”  What I found interesting about Dunwoody, and I’d bet its true of several of the other Four-Stars, is that she hadn’t set out to achieve the rank, it was just a biproduct of her excelling at every task that was put before her.  That is a great example for all of us to follow.  Let’s not concern ourselves with awards, titles, ranks, or positions; let’s just have the character and discipline to be consistently excellent at everything we do, and let the honors chase us.

-JH

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