[Husker] Casey Martinez Talks to the LA Times (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Kathy Jackson]

I have to agree.  Maybe because my Dad grew up on a ranch and was 20 years in the Army I see where you are coming from.  I teach high school kids, and it is becoming more common for a student who has difficulty with something to just give up and not try anymore.  Several years ago I had a student that frankly, was not the sharpest tool in the shed, but this student refused to give up.  She had a goal and whatever she had to do to achieve that goal she was going to do.  You gotta love a kid like that.

Kathy Jackson

On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Baker, Glenn R LTC MIL USA TRADOC wrote:

> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: FOUO
> 
> Taylor needs to man up and be a leader.  I see this in our military so
> many times it freaking kills me where kids just don't man up and fight
> through the pain or other issues.  I watched my father damn near cut his
> foot off with a chainsaw.  He told me to go get a rag so he could stop
> the bleeding and continue to saw wood.  I knew right then and there to
> never be a wimp especially around my dad who grew up on a farm in
> Antelope County Nebraska. Our society has become a nation of wimps.  The
> wussification continues with no end in sight.  I watched my son
> dislocate his shoulder from the stands in high school and I am very
> close with him but I did not rush to his side and baby him his mother
> was another story.  If you can't take an occasional tongue lashing then
> you might be in the wrong business. I can't tell you how many times I
> have gotten my ass chewed out.  Take it like a man, learn from it and
> drive on. 
> 
> V/R
> 
> LTC Glenn R. Baker
> National Simulation Center
> LESD Exercise Analyst
> 410 Kearney Avenue- Building 45
> Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027
> phone- 913-684-8185
> fax- 913-684-8171
> e-mail- glenn.baker at conus.army.mil
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