Summary of Guy Snodgrass's Holding the Line

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Priorities in flying are: navigate, communicate, and aviate. Navigating safely to your destination is the most important thing you must do.
#2 The importance of proper procedure was made clear to me when I was flying an F/A-18 jet that had a small rag left inside the engine by a worker during its rebuild. The rag caused a catastrophic overpressure in the engine, which almost caused the plane to crash.
#3 I was asked to serve as a speechwriter for the new secretary of defense, James Mattis, in 2017. I was excited about the opportunity, but I had to consider my family's needs.
#4 I was assigned to work for Mattis, and I was excited to learn more about him. I watched online interviews and speeches, read remarks that he delivered throughout his military career, and started reading books that he had enjoyed.

Sujets

• Economic Disparity
• Social Classes
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822516366
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Guy Snodgrass's Holding the Line
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22 Insights from Chapter 23
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Priorities in flying are: navigate, communicate, and aviate. Navigating safely to your destination is the most important thing you must do.

#2

The importance of proper procedure was made clear to me when I was flying an F/A-18 jet that had a small rag left inside the engine by a worker during its rebuild. The rag caused a catastrophic overpressure in the engine, which almost caused the plane to crash.

#3

I was asked to serve as a speechwriter for the new secretary of defense, James Mattis, in 2017. I was excited about the opportunity, but I had to consider my family's needs.

#4

I was assigned to work for Mattis, and I was excited to learn more about him. I watched online interviews and speeches, read remarks that he delivered throughout his military career, and started reading books that he had enjoyed.

#5

I met with Mattis’s action group, the military’s equivalent of a planning and deep-thinking team. The secretary’s deputy chief of staff, Tony DeMartino, led the interview. I liked him immediately.

#6

I was assigned to work for Mattis, and I was excited to begin serving my country. I felt compelled to serve. The past ten years had seen the military’s slow decline in readiness as budgets tightened and service members left to find greener pastures.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Mattis was a different kind of leader. He was not descended from admirals or generals, did not attend an Ivy League school, and did not come from a wealthy family. But he did have two advantages: a mother and a father who instilled in him a love of learning.

#2

Mattis had a well-known reputation for embodying the warrior’s ethos with his quotability. He said, The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world who just need to be shot.

#3

As secretary of defense, Mattis added to his repertoire of quotes. When CBS News’s John Dickerson asked him what kept him awake at night, he responded, Nothing, I keep other people awake at night.

#4

I was an active-duty Navy commander taking the role of chief speechwriter. Bill was a political appointee whose previous job had been at the US Senate working for Senator Deb Fischer. We were excited to meet our new boss.

#5

Mattis’s office was large by Pentagon standards. It was easily dividable into a cubicle farm seating twenty people. The National Security Act of 1947, as amended, created the Department of Defense, and required the secretary of defense to be a civilian who had been out of uniform for at least seven years. Mattis had been out for three years.

#6

The first speech prep meeting with Mattis was great.