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Okay, you caught me. A gross generalization to gloss over an area to which I feel is inconsequential to this particular discussion. However, it does bring up an invaluable, and probably the most difficult, attribute of a good mentor, which is to convince the young charger that he isn’t charging quite as fast as need be and he should occassionally get out of the cockpit doing fun stuff and work on that boring subspeciality for which with his timing there will be a real need when his cockpit days are over. A surprising number of O-5s, and subsequently O-6s, make it this way. Hence many of your boobs. But they know more about procurement, computers, IT, and a few other boring areas than we will ever care to know.</p>