Episode Notes:

Matt talks with Sgt. Maj. Curt Woodard (ret.), who spent 23 years in the Marine Corps across infantry leadership billets, multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a tour as a legislative liaison to the Senate. Their conversation touches on a problem every Marine eventually faces: how to make sound decisions when the information is incomplete and no one is there to tell you what to do. Woodard draws on his own path from peacetime recruit to seasoned combat leader to explore how judgment actually gets built, why both mentorship and mistakes matter, and what it takes to grow Marines who can act on intent rather than wait for orders.

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