http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70

WOW, what a speech! Wish he could come talk at A&M to the corps, despite him being a tu alum. Truly a great American!

Agree, well done.

Speech printed in WSJ today ! Great speech !

While he was at Tu, the Corps was hard at work doing lots of the same things he reported the Seals did. Not quite as stringent .

First part of his speech was about making your bed first thing each day . We did this in the Corps for 4 years. As a Senior I got caught oversleeping by Bulls - restricted for weekend - difficult to explain to girlfriend.

They actually clapped and cheered for the guy? In Austin?

He went there on a track scholarship, I wonder if we offered him. Understand he is not long for his current post....from Stars and Stripes....
But perhaps the biggest news came afterward, in off-the-cuff comments made by retired Army Maj. Gen. Barry Bates, director of operations for the National Defense Industry Association, which put on the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference being held this week at the Tampa Convention Center.

He said the 2014 SOFIC conference "might be the last" for McRaven as commander of SOCOM, which is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base.

It was the first public acknowledgement that McRaven, who took command in August 2011 from Adm. Eric Olson, may soon be leaving.

Seems like only after a couple of nights as a new fish Jones I learned to sleep ON TOP of my bed, which made 'making it up' every morning a whole lot faster. Just needed another blankie and I was cozy enough. There were other things in my 'hole' that needed straightening up on a daily basis, but making the bed was not one of them.

Interesting concept to folks graduating from t.u., 'Clean up your room, Bozo'. Guess they thought Mom would do it forever, huh?



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He said the 2014 SOFIC conference "might be the last" for McRaven as commander of SOCOM, which is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base.

It was the first public acknowledgement that McRaven, who took command in August 2011 from Adm. Eric Olson, may soon be leaving.

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Seems like I heard McRaven is going to ISAF to replace Dunford.

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