Rick Jackson enlisted in the Marine Corps in the 1980s, later attending Officer Candidates School and commissioning as an infantry officer. He joins this episode to reflect on a career that spanned nearly three and a half decades. He shares one story in particular, from a deployment to Iraq’s restive Anbar province, which included what he describes as one of his lowest days in the Marine Corps. Listen as he describes what he learned from that experience about the essence of leadership and what it means to be a Marine.
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