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The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Stanley A. McChrystal
Stanley A. McChrystal
Born: Aug 14, 1954

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