Leading whiners, naysayers, half-steppers, and other pathogens

“You can take a mule to the Kentucky Derby, but you have to kick his fanny all the way around the track, and even then you don’t win the roses or get kissed by the pretty girl.” Quoted from a quip from MajGen Stiner, USA talking to special ops folks following an exercise in Florida while I was commander of the CINC In Extremis Force (Joint Task Force 129).