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If I were asked to define leadership, I should say it is the projection of personality. It is the most intensely personal thing in the world because it is just plain you.

The qualities that distinguish a leader from other men are courage, will power, initiative, and knowledge. If you have not got those qualities you will not make a leader; if you have them, you will.

- Field Marshal Sir William Slim from an address at West Point, circa 1950:

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Today in Military History

May 17



1889:

The Governor General's Horse Guards: Nulli Secundus


1963:

WO II Walter (Rocky) Leja of the 3rd Field Engineer Regiment was critically injured while defusing a mailbox bomb in Westmount, Quebec. He was awarded the George Medal.




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