"The Navy affords limitless opportunities to our people, whether it’s an education or in experiences or an assignment. Go after every one, go after it with a passion. And most importantly, reach down and share your experiences and your mentorship with those that are coming behind. That’s the most important thing that we can do."
"Information warfare is about warfighting -- making sure that people who go fight have the very best chance to get their mission done, win that fight, and come home safely. Today information warfare is assuming a very important role in warfighting. As we rely, more and more, on detailed information, we need to protect it. As the enemy relies more and more on detailed information -- available to him in many more ways than ever before -- we have opportunities to make his life miserable.
"Patriotism is not something you put on each morning like a clean shirt. Patriotism is not something you can buy at the super market. Patriotism is not something you can get in return for a monthly paycheck to a man in uniform. It is devotion to an ideal—a principle; a burning desire that the things that people think are best for their country and its people are protected from erosion—protected from any and everything which would tend to lessen in the mind of the individual the image he has of how things should be in his ideal country."
"Today, these adversaries (terrorists) are operating in ways that challenge our most sophisticated technology and thinking. They have become masters of the information battle space, leveraging this new realm to recruit train, fund, operate and attack. They are not constrained by well established paradigms and thus they have learned to rapidly adapt and respond. We must dominate this new domain and, as Information Warfare Officers, your job is to lead the way for our Navy." 
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"Good leadership has sustained me my entire life. In the toughest of times, I've watched great leaders emerge sometimes surprisingly so and sometimes with great expectation. "
"And speaking of lessons learned, I should note that during my time as Secretary I have been impressed by the way the Army's professional journals allow some of our brightest and most innovative officers to critique – sometimes bluntly – the way the service does business, to include judgments about senior leadership, both military and civilian. I believe this is a sign of institutional strength and vitality. I encourage you to take on the mantle of fearless, thoughtful, but loyal dissent when the situation calls for it. And, agree with the articles or not, senior officers should embrace such dissent as a healthy dialogue and protect and advance those considerably more junior who are taking on that mantle."
"Captain, Thanks for the great article. It is right on target and its release in September is well timed with thousands of new chiefs entering the mess. Appreciate your support. I have said many times that Wardroom support is critical in getting our Chiefs Mess back to the deckplates.
"The success or failure of any command-wide inspection can be placed directly at the entrance to the CPO mess. There are all kinds of challenges, and reasons for failure. But it’s been proven that the experience that resides in the mess can tilt the results of any inspection toward success if the chiefs are engaged on the deck plates.”Most of the missiles couldn’t be fired, and neither could any of the big guns. The Aegis radars key to the ships’ fighting abilities didn’t work right.
The flight decks were inoperable.
Most of the lifesaving gear failed inspection.
Corrosion was rampant, and lube oil leaked all over.
The verdict: “unfit for sustained combat operations.”
Those results turned up by an inspection by the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey — commonly known as an InSurv.
"The call to serve is the catalyst for thousands of courageous acts that happen every day in our Navy. By raising their right hand and swearing to support the Constitution of the United States, our people promise to embark on a lifestyle of service.
"For the military life, whether for sailor, soldier, or airman, is a good life. The human qualities it demands include fortitude, integrity, self-restraint, personal loyalty to other persons, and the surrender of the advantage of the individual to a common good. None of us can claim a total command of all these qualities. The military man sees round him others of his own kind also seeking to develop them, and perhaps doing it more successfully than he has done himself. This is good company. Anyone can spend his life in it with satisfaction."
"In order to be an effective MCPON, I have established standards for myself and my staff. The most important of these concerns communications. A great deal of emphasis is being placed on communications these days and rightly so. Communications among all levels is extremely important and is the fulcrum upon which our organization functions."MCPON Robert Walker
