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of people that are putting designs together for customers and working through challenges, finding solutions, moving forward and delivering for our customers,” Murray said. At his plant, there is a big challenge nearly every week. Sometimes he starts to hear things like, ‘That’s that’ or ‘That’s as good as it gets.’ “I think we’ve all been in those situations. I’ve caught myself in that trap before, too,” Murray said. “But I think it’s really important for us as leaders to understand that we have to deliver for our customers. We have given them a commitment and we cannot fail now.” Setbacks absolutely happen, of course, but Murray said it helps to find inspiration in others who have demonstrat- ed their refusal to give up even when things seemed im- possible. For Murray, he doesn’t have to look further than the Army Rangers who clawed their way up the clifftop in the Battle of Normandy to destroy the German artillery positions, or in his own experiences leading a platoon on counter-terrorism operations in Iraq. On one such mission, Murray’s platoon had received in- telligence on the location of one of the big bomb makers, who had been placing improvised explosive devises all over the city. For months the military had been looking for him. Murray and his group cleared the house in question but found no bombs. It was either bad intel, or the bomb maker was tipped off. At this point, they hadn’t slept in two
days, and it was 135-degrees as they rolled back to their command post. Then a second report came in on a new location. They pounded their energy drinks, headed back out, but again — nothing there. Erich Murray served in the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq and 173rd Airborne Brigade in Afghanistan and Europe.
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