I’ll never forget the first time I met “Captain No”.
I was a young, 17-year old new cadet at West Point about to take my first Physical Fitness test– a semiannual requirement in the military that involved a bunch of push-ups, sit-ups, and running.
The physical fitness test was proctored… meaning that a veteran Army officer would literally stand there and watch me do push-ups. And if I didn’t do them properly, i.e. go all the way up, all the way down, the repetition wouldn’t count.
By sheer misfortune, the Army officer proctoring my first exam was a stern, mean-looking captain. He was built like a featherweight boxer but had enough pent-up anger to punch like Mike Tyson. I suppose I would too if I had to watch teenagers do push-ups for a living.Little did I know that this Army officer was legendary at West Point for his fanatical, absolutist approach to […]
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