When McCain left, Smith says, “we had achieved our pilot training rate. We had sky-high morale and record levels of re-enlistment. We had a perfect safety record.” But six months later, morale and re-enlistments were back to average, training lagged, and there was a fatal accident.
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“There are great leaders who inspire great performances,” Smith says. “He certainly did.”
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