My name is Joe Lambert. I am the A1 Company Commander at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. I started this blog IOT (in order to) have a history of my time as CO and to think through some of the leadership questions that I will face and deal with.
This is going to be a really long semester. I am a civil engineering major and that keeps my busy and with this position it keeps me running and on the move. So these posts at time will be written from the perspective of a man who has had little or no sleep and who perspective is slightly squired. But I view this as a forum to vent thoughts and ideas. To step back and understand the circumstances around me and what is actually going on.
I am a Christian and when I took command of this company I threw down the gauntlet and said I would lead this company as a Christian so my perspectives will all be from a Christian world view and understanding the leadership from the eyes of Jesus and the example that he set for us.
I have gone through a lot in my 3.5 years at West Point that has shaped me into who I am today. Some good and a lot bad but through and only through the grace of God I am here today to say that I am not afraid of what tomorrow brings even if it does look like it will crush me.
This poem says it all, Foot prints in the sand.
I can promise nothing in regularity of posts, it comes and goes as the mood strikes me but I feel that this website is very important not only to my development as a army leader but to those around me to learn from my experience. That is if anyone but my mom reads it.
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