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Patrick Hennessey

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Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He joined the Army in January 2004, undertaking officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he was awarded the Queen's Medal and commissioned into The Grenadier Guards. He served as a Platoon Commander and later Company Operations Officer from the end of 2004 to early 2009 in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia and the Falkland Islands and on operational tours to Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2007, where he became the youngest Captain in the Army and was commended for gallantry. Patrick is currently studying to become a barrister and hopes to specialize in conflict and international humanitarian law ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 1,910 ratings · 214 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars 3.73 avg rating — 1,843 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans 3.81 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey (2010-05-27) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of James on Earth: A Mythology by Violetta Tarpinian, Andreas Thomas (contributor), Patrick Hennessey (cover_art) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.”
― Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars

tags: goal-setting, temptation

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“Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.”
― Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars

tags: bias, maturation, perspective

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“In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground.”
― Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars

tags: acculturation, discipleship, leadership

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