9 Rules of Engagement by Harris Faulkner

Author:Harris Faulkner
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Any special skills you possess

Past and present interests and hobbies

Activities that are most gratifying to you

Things you do that are useful to others

Things people unconditionally trust you to do

Your childhood intuition

Early encouragements from family and friends

Inspiration you get from the work others do

Let sit and gel.

FOR THE MISSION

Plan

Prepare

Execute

Assess

Set a timer with firm deadlines for each stage.

Complete the mission and enjoy.

Rule #5

Wear Camo

Dress blues certainly turn heads. They elicit a lot of respect from people. They’re great-looking uniforms, especially when they are worn by highly decorated officers. All those ribbons and medals are impressive. But for my money, the go-to option if you really want to dress for success in the military is camo. It’s the hardest working outfit in the armed services.

During the Vietnam War the pattern was windblown leaves. It was worn to blend into the native foliage. Infantrymen would often apply black, brown, and green cream on their faces and on the exposed skin of their necks and hands. They’d also tuck grass, leaves, twigs, and whatever other natural materials they could find in their helmets as further concealment. They would take special care to cover anything that could reflect sunlight too—even just small glints of it.

As a pilot, my father kept his attire to basic camo. None of these extras were necessary for him. Most times he had to worry more about hiding his plane when he had touched ground. A few of the aircrafts he flew had countershading, but on the day he had a close call with the enemy on an open airfield, his plane wasn’t hidden, nor was it painted in anything other than dark green to make it less visible. He had landed on a small strip, dropped off special munitions, and delivered an intelligence person to a unit waiting beyond the airfield as his orders directed him to do. He was returning to the plane when he spotted a squad of seven to nine Vietcong soldiers on the terrain just below him. To this day he cannot imagine why they didn’t approach the plane to check it out. They had to have seen it. It’s pretty hard to miss something that size when it’s sitting just a couple hundred yards away. He was also baffled as to why they didn’t search for him. Someone had to have piloted that thing. It still mystifies him as to why they just kept going. Did they really have someplace more important to be? He was sure that he saw them scanning the edges of the field before they walked away. They had to have noticed him then. But as sure as he is about that, I’m sure that they didn’t. It’s by the grace of God that they chose to move past that plane that day, but I think it was also by the grace of camo that they never spotted him.

He quickly completed what he set out to do, hopped back on that plane, and hightailed it out of there.

We often think of “dressing

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