Captain Lindy’s Gortex (OCS)
 Officer Candidate School, cold weather training
Master Registry #5 | Leadership vs Management, Caring for Teams
Setting: Officer Candidate School, cold weather training
“There was a certain captain who wore her gortex jacket. The appointed leader of the hour had forgotten to tell everybody to get their gortex jackets  and then because he forgot to do that but he had a gortex jacket on, she said ’everybody has to be the same  uniformity  so what is it, on or off?'
He’s flustered and says ‘off.’ She said ‘you’re the leader, everybody leave your jackets.’ And then she kept her jacket.
Captain Lindy, that’s right, you did. I was there.
So I’m the morale officer and we go on this thing and it’s raining and it’s cold and man we are cold. The only thing keeping us OK is that we are moving in the dark and then we stop and we’re gonna be stopped there for about an hour and a half.
I put down my gear, told my buddy ’take care of it,’ and I went down the line and I gave everybody morale pills  which were of course Tic Tacs.”
Key Lesson: Leadership vs management. Taking care of people even when leadership doesn’t.
Best Used For: Leadership philosophy, caring for community, contrast with extractive platforms