Al Gray Marine Leadership Forum Resource Center
General Al Gray’s 95th Birthday Celebration
2023 – Interviews
Thinking & Leadership Training: Essays and Classes
Marine Corps Principles and Traits of Leadership, Part 1
The Marine Corps recognizes eleven principles of leadership and fourteen traits of leaders. In this and coming editions of “Front and Center,”…
Marine Corps Principles and Traits of Leadership, Part 2
Last month, we considered the first principle of leadership recognized by the Marine Corps: Know yourself and seek self-improvement. We considered also the first trait of…
Principles and Traits of Marine Corps Leadership, Part 3
In an essay titled “On Remembering Who We Are,” the late Melvin Bradford observed the following: “Yet as [Michael] Oakeshott insists, moral…
Valor and Virtue: Video Interviews with Marines and Leaders
Historical Documents
Traits & Principles of USMC Leadership
Leadership is intangible, hard to measure, & difficult to describe. Its quality would seem to stem from many factors. But certainly they…
MCDP 1 Warfighting
Since Fleet Marine Force Manual 1, Warfighting, was first published in 1989, it has had a significant impact both inside and outside…
Grayisms
Grayisms and other thoughts on leadership from General Al Gray, USMC (Retired), 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Compiled by PAUL OTTE…
