NGA Distinguished Speaker Series
July 10, 2015
NGA Campus East, Springfield, VA

 

Emcee: Good afternoon again. Hello! it's a great turn out for a Friday afternoon. Thank you all
for joining us today for the NGA distinguished speakers event. WE are grateful for Director
Cardillo for providing the workforce the time and opportunity to learn from thought leaders within
the public and private sectors, and academia for willing to collaborate and share the
experiences and success to help our agency and this mission. Without further ado, it's now my
pleasure to introduce the director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Mr. Robert
Cardillo.

Audience: Applause

Director Cardillo: Thanks - I am going to be very brief. You guys here from me enough.
What I am going to do is turn over the intro duties to officer representative from
West Point in 1965. He also happens to be my dad, in this case it was Captain Richard Cardillo,
but now retired General Richard Cardillo to introduce Dad?

General Richard Cardillo: Well thank you for a very warm welcome. Let me till you in why i am

here.

Now wait a minute, wait just a minute, Before he says anything, i want to tell you
this- was a PFC for two years in the United States Army and this son of a was a General!

i don?t know how the hell that happened.

General Richard Cardillo: I predicted this would happen, I was hoping it didn?t because now i
have lost my train of thought, so i am going to refer to my notes. A few nights ago, your
distinguished director requested, or asked, or told me- I am not sure what it was; would you do
the introduction for As you can see, I accepted. 80 let me just give you a little
background and then we will bring Coach out here and he will do his dog and pony show. He?s,
well you will find out about him. in 1965 was assigned to the staff and faculty at the military
academy. Maybe some of you guys might have been there in those days, I am not sure. I say

 

guys because there were no ladies there in those days. That?s another story. As a part of my
assignment was assigned to the office of physical education. One of the functions we had
there was to provide officer leadership for the various programs that were at West Point:
football, basketball, whatever. Was selected to be the officer representative for the Army
Basketball program and Readily accepted. I hadn?t played there but I readily accepted that
challenge not knowing what I was getting into. i went upstairs and I introduced myself and it was
the first time I met Private First Class At the time he was the
assistant coach. This was 1965. He had as his function was the Omni Plead team, the freshman
team. I introduced myself and didn?t know too much about the young man but I got to find out
very much about him as time went by. If you can guess from the time 1965, 66~time frame to
today this is the 50th year of beginning of his coaching career which began at
West Point. The group that he first coached at West Point has gotten together. There is about
14 that I am aware of, there?s probably a few more but they will honor coach come September
for his 50th year of coaching or beginning of coaching. That will happen in Pinehurst, North
Carolina. Anyway, I don?t intend to dwell too much on Coach?s winning, although over 900 wins,
3 national championships, Olympic Gold Medal I think they all speak for themselves as far as
what winning and losing was all about. What I want to emphasize is winning
philosophy. The first thing I would say is he never focused on winning. The objective may have
been to win, well it wasn?t maybe, it WAS the objective to win. He never focused on it. What he

 

focuses on as a coach and hopefully he brings this out during his little talk with you all is the
elements of winning. What is it that results in winning? He will cover some of those, or I am
forcing him to now and he is right back here listening. He is a firm believer in addition to
focusing on elements of winning, he firmly believes in consequences. Which is a term you might
all have heard here recently. But I am taking it in another context here I think. For example,
every player knows that if their performance is below the coach?s expectations or less than their
ability, they will suffer the consequences. That is they don?t get to play. The bottom line on
Coach - and the one thing that sets him apart is that he cares about every player he has
ever coached. He cares how they practice, how they play, how they study, how they approach
every facet of college life, and he continues to care for them as they go on in life. He is a true

coach and I want you to meet your guest speaker, 

Audience: Applause

 

General Robert Cardillo: I don?t know if you can handle this alone, but he is going to have to

because i am going down there.

You want me to help you?

Audience: Laughter

i will tell you, just another General that?s a pain in the That's all. First what I
would like to have, I have always asked this anytime I have spoken, I would like to have all of
you folks male or female that have been in the military please stand. Any form of the military. i
know we have an awful lot of you here. along with everybody else just want to say thank you to
you folks for what you mean to us. For what you do for us, and before you sit down let me tell all

you Navy people that we beat you?re every time we played.
Audience: Noise

You know, I have tried to put what?s necessary to success together, and kind of a
short package could through the experience I have had as a coach. One of the things that I
say before I ever even get started is my thanks and the thanks to millions around the country
would go out to you folks for what you do and what you work at doing. How important you are in
terms of what the security of the United States is. If I can give you some thoughts maybe that
will help you a little bit in what you are doing. I have a phrase called the man in charge. The
man or the lady in charge. When you are in charge, it be in charge. You are the guy that?s
got the answers. You are the guy that?s got to teach other people what to do. I love the man in
charge. Here?s my little take on the man in charge. John came in to see his dad. He just passed
the driver?s test. His dad congratulated him on doing that. He said, you know John mom told me
that you had the best test ever in the history of the driving exam, either written or vocal, That?s
great John. 1 am really proud of you. Dad now that have a license, do you think that will be a
chance for me to use the car every once in a while? Well John, let me talk about that a little bit. I
think that can be arranged but it?s going to depend on you. have got some prerequisites for you
to use the car. The first one is, mom isn?t real happy with the way you treat your brother and

 

sister. That's number one. Number two you are a straight A studentthe
last grade card. That's got to change. I expect straight A?s period from a straight A student.
Number three, John, have talked to you a little bit about the bible and about reading and I
never see you read a book. You don't need to look at the bible for the religious significance that
it holds, the bible just says a lot of good things for daily living. My fourth prerequisite is this John,
when you have done those other three and this fourth one I am going to give you and then we
will talk about you using the car. Well dad what's the fourth one> Well John it's this, I am tired of
that long hair of yours. I have seen all of it I want, and have told you I want a haircut. When
you have that long hair gone, you come see me. 80 about two weeks later John comes in to
see his dad, the man in charge, keep this in mind. When you are in charge you have got to be in
charge. John said dad, I think I have fulfilled the requirements to use the car. Dad said well
John, on your grades, perfect. on helping mom with your brother and sister, perfect.
Extremely good John, everything I talked with you about has been done and I am proud of you.
But John, you still have that long hair and I told you that was one of the prerequisites. John
said well now dad, you know you didn?t mention reading and you told me about reading and 
have been reading dad, and actually I have found in the bible that Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
and Jesus himself all had long hair. His dad, the man in charge looked at his son and he said
John you are absolutely right. They walked their a?of everywhere they went.

Audience: Laughter and clapping

Now that's kind of the man or the lady in charge, and when you are there just
keep in mind that you have got a responsibility to see that those working with you, are working
at a tune that you like and are doing the things that you want to do. That?s number one, the man
in charge. Number two is self-reliance. I think you got to be able to rely on yourself, I am sure
that we all at one time or another have relied too much on mom, or too much on dad or
whatever. I think self-reliance is an extremely important thing in success, particularly in what you
folks do, what you got to do, what you got to look at, and what you decide is useful and what
isn?.t My thought on self~reliance is this, one of the great baseball players in history, today and
forever more will be Albert Pujols who was the first baseman with the Cardinals. He is now with
the Los Angeles Angels. Albert is one of the greatest human beings I have ever seen in sport. 
He has done more for kids, more for people. Albert will go down as one of the great human

 

beings ever along with being one of the greatest baseball players in history. Yet i talked to him
about self~reliance. get on him about it and needle him. He gets to laughing when tell him
this, I said Albert, when you cross home plate you always raise your hands to thank the almighty
for helping you hit that homerun. Albert it, you hit the homerun. You got to keep in mind, you
can?t rely on religion or anything, you got to be able to rely on yourself to do what's necessary
Albert. You hit the homerun. You are the guy that did it. Self-reliance. Well, Albert holds his
hands up, thanking the almighty for hitting the homerun and as i see this I say to myself, God

screwed the pitcher.
Audience Laughing
I challenge you to interpret any other answer to that question. I mean if he helped

Albert, look at that poor sucker pitching out there, alright? The next step is knowing your
capabilities. Not just those that work with you. You have got to know that, but you also got to

 

know your own capabilities. We all, i think at some point or other are a little bit too sure of what
we are doing when maybe we ought to be asking questions. I have always felt this, I think since
I was a little kid that it?s a shame if you don?t ask a question. It?s never an embarrassment to ask
a question. I think it's a question of intelligence. When you do so. If you don?t know something
found out about it. Don't invent something. You know this is knowing your capabilities. We, all of
us can?t do everything well. We can do some things well, and we can all together do different
things well and that?s what makes us strong. Well my approach to knowing your capabilities is
with a 92-year?old man who is in my native state of Ohio near my hometown of Orville. The
hometown of Smuckers preserves. Out in the country at a farm pond and he is fishing, and he
has a fly rod. don?t know how many fly fishermen we have here, but I have been a fly
fisherman for 50 years. I love fly fishing stories and this is one of those. This fella is 92 years
old. Just think of that, and he is fishing at 92 years old. He snaps that line back, he casts, and it
goes shooting out there and lands on the lake, a real soft touch like patting a baby on the as
it lands on the lake [audience laughing] and all of the sudden this big blue gill dives up out of the
water, and grabs the fly and very quick, great reflexes, 92 years old, he sets the hook. He brings
the fish in. I watch him do this 2 or 3 times. I am kind of hiding on my bicycle back in the bushes.
Then he casts again. The same result. He brings it in with a little work with his left hand. He gets
it close to him and he starts to reach down to put in his bucket, and as he reaches down the

 

blue gill all of the sudden stands on its tail. It looks up at him and he said you are the luckiest
man in the world today. He looked at the blue gill and said why is that? And the blue gill looked
up at him and said, just because on this day if you would pick me up and kiss me become the
most beautiful maiden in the world and I will provide with ecstasy that man has never dreamed
of. Your life will be fulfilled to the absolute fullest extent of happiness. All you need to do is pick
me up and kiss me, and a life will be yours forever. That will top anything that man has ever
known. Just pick me up and kiss me. Now remember we are talking about capabilities. He
reaches down and he picks up the frog, looks at the frog, sticks it in his pocket. The frog says to
my 90-year-old companion, the frog says, did you hear what I told you? If you will just take me
out of this pocket and kiss me I will provide you with a future that woman, man, animal has
never dreamed of. The ecstasy of the future is all yours if you will just take me out of this pocket
and kiss me. The old timer again looked down in the pocket and he said, you know, he said I
heard everything you told me. But I decided that my age I would rather have a talking frog. So, i
think no capabilities. I have always thought in my life time that too many people are afraid to ask
questions. have always told my players don?t be embarrassed to ask a question. Don?t be
afraid to ask a question because maybe you need an answer. Maybe an answer is going to help
us be a better team. Maybe if I ask a question I learn something. Basketball is not nuclear
science. How many of you played basketball? Men or women, how many of you played? Well 
see one or two I didn?t coach, but maybe three. We are talking about what is it that there is with
a question. You ask a question; you get a really good answer or you get an answer that you can
work with. have always told people don?t be afraid of asking a question. We are playing
Minnesota and we are up three at the half and we have a great player named Scott May. i got in
front of him and looked down at him in the locker room, and I said Scott, it?s a two year all
American, I said Scott we are up three and we are only up three because the kid that you are
guarding, Williams, has scored 23 points in the first half. That?s 23 points, Scott, that he has
gotten off you who are supposed to be a damn good defensive player. Now what do you think
we could do about this Scott? What can we do? From the back of the locker room came a voice.
A kid that had played for me, these kids are all seniors and this team was the last team to go
undefeated and win the national championship and in four years I had never heard this kid say a
word. Bobby Wilkerson, quietest kid I ever saw. When I said to Scott how the hell are we going
to stop him Scott? From the back of the locker room for the first time in four years Bobby
Wilkerson said something. He said when you put me on him. I looked down at Scott and I said

 

what the hell do you think about that Scott? And he looked up at me with a little bit of a grin and
said Coach I think it?s a damn good idea. 80 never be afraid to ask your people something.
Sometimes the people that are working with you know more than you do. Being able to ask
questions and also the other side of it, I think being able to answer questions is really an
important part of the travel on the road to success. You know, basketball is not nuclear science.
It?s like sometimes we define things to too great an extent when a simple answer takes care of
everything. Here is one of the things I did with our basketball team. The last thing that I ever did
with a team prior to a game was this: I would get everybody in a locker room and would say
alright, keep one thing in mind the most important thing to keep in mind offensively when we go
out there tonight is this. I said this for almost 40 years, every game that coached. Keep one
thing in mind out there offensively and we are in red tonight, and those other guys in white. Let?s
make damn sure we throw the ball only to the reds. We don?t throw it to those sons of in
white. Have you got any questions? I never had a kid ask a question. i was so precise in what I
said i wanted. 80 clear. 80 cautiously demanding in what said. There are a lot of simple
things like that, that are important that we tend to overlook on the road to asking a question or
finding out something. It?s not always the most complicated answer that?s the best. We talked
about knowing our capabilities and now let me get on to reacting under pressure. WE all at
some point or another, there isn?t a man or woman in here that in some way, shape, or form has
not had to maybe several times react well under pressure. This is my favorite story about the
ability to react under pressure. It was a friend of mine. I am a graduate of Ohio State University
as was this friend of mine. And after graduation I went into teaching and coaching, and he got a
job with proctor in gamble in Cincinnati. He had a lot of stops to make around the Cincinnati
area to make sure that everything was going well and that the company was doing right by
these different store owners and so forth. On this particular morning, it was really a hard, cold
rain. He happened to have developed a sore throat that almost prevented him from talking. He
was warned very, very seriously not to get out in this weather anymore. Getting into under
pressure, he is already pressure because he has to make sure that he is taking care of his
clients around the Cincinnati area. With that he decided to use the telephone. This way years
and years ago when you didn?t have the fancy telephones we have today. It was a simple dial
telephone. He dialed the operator and the operator came on and said may help you please?
He said [grunting] yes ma'am, I need your help. I got this terrible sore throat and i can?t speak
very well and I need to make a call. Well sir if you could speak a little more plainly and just give

 

me the number, lwill dial the number for you. He said I want to cail Trinidad, 333?333?333. Sir, I
didn?t get all of that, I know there is a 3 in there a couple times, can you repeat that? He said
ma?am I can hardly talk have got such a sore throat, but i will try it one more time. Trinidad
333-333. And again the lady said sir, I am just not I am just not understanding you. He said well,
here?s one last time, lady. He said the number i am trying to dial is Trinidad, 333- well, he said,
well, we will try it one more time lady, we will try it one more time. This time if you don?t listen to
me, and you don?t hear me you can just stick the phone up you?re lady. With that, the lady
became very indignant as she should, and slammed the receiver. My friend sort of gave up on
getting any help from Ohio Bell telephone that morning. He tried to fix some tea and something
for breakfast, and just in the middle of that the doorbell rang on his apartment. He went to the
door and here were two big guys. One about 6?3, and the other one about 6?5 and between
them they weighed about 450, and they had a big thing on theirjacket that said Ohio Bell
Telephone. Right away he thought he was in a somewhat precarious situation and he said can i
be of help to you? Well you sure can. Are you the jerk that told our, one of our operators what
she could do with the telephone? He said well you see, I got this terrible sore throat I was acting
under pressure, and have this terrible sore throat and I can?t speak very well. I have to make
the rounds of my clients, and I just [inaudible] Well, alright here is what we will do for you fellow.
You get on that phone and call that operator back and apologize to her. If you don?t do that, we
are going to rip that phone out of here and take it back to the office. He said well I will try. He
picks up the telephone and he dials it. He said is this the lady that I told to stick the phone up
her And the operator very indignantly replied yes it is, what do you want now? And he said
well, just told ya, i just called ya, to tell you to get ready because they are bringing it over to
you. Now that?s the ability to react under pressure. Which is an important ingredient I think that
everybody has to have at one time or another. We can go on to player selection. Okay so new
player selection, let?s see, let me tell you what I want with player selection. I would like you to-
stand. i would like you to stand. I would like you to stand. If you would stand. And let me see, i
would like you to stand if you would. if you both want to stand that's fine. I would like you to
stand. Now tum around a little bit so everybody can see you. No I see you, let the folks get a
good look at you. You two guys also turn around so everybody can see you. Now I am going to
talk a little bit about my experience with the Olympics. When had the Olympic team it was the
greatest pleasure i ever had to have team that represented the United States at the world
championships. Our first game was with Europe but to be real honest with you, [turn around,

 

you are not very coachable. That?s it, goodl]
Woman: I?m sorry.
Audience: Laughing and clapping hysterically

[inaudibie] gold medal in 1984 Olympic Championships. I want you to get a good
look at the five guys standing in front of you so you will understand because there is no doubt in

my mind that these five sons of could have been Uruguay.

Audience: Laughing

You did a great jobt

Audience: Applause

Now, we had a really great situation, or did with the kids that played on that
Olympic team in 1984. I take greater pride in having had an opportunity to coach our Olympic
team, particularly to win a gold medal in anything I ever did in basketball because it?s a little bit
like, not nearly as important as what you folks do but it was representing the United States and
that?s what you do every day. You work on behalf of the United States and I can?t think of
anything that would ever be more rewarding than to work and bring a positive effect in many
ways to your country, and you folks do a great job with that. Back to the Olympics, we won four
games in a row. Now we are playing Spain for the gold medal. I think I am the guy in charge. 
am the coach. It?s halftime and we are ahead by 17 points at the half. That always scared me.
When we played really well in the first half, I am always afraid those kids are going to go in the
locker room and say we got these guys beat. This team isn?t very good and on, and on like kids
can do. I was always afraid of that so I tried to figure out some way to get their attention and get
focused on the second half. I was fortunate enough on that team to have had many really good
players and all really good kids. Among them was Michael Jordan, who I think maybe as good
of an athlete as anyone who ever played an American Sport. Maybe, maybe in basketball. But
he probably is right hanging in there with Oscar Robertson as the player ever. Well was

 

fortunate enough to have Mike, and as I walk into our locker room trying to think of something
that will get us in a position to start the second half where we are not dealing with over
confidence and how well we played in the first half. I am having a tough time figuring out
something and all of the sudden something clicked. I am going to get on Jordan a little bit. If]
get on him everyone else is going to pay attention. 80 I walk in and Michael is sitting in a chair
here, and he?s got Chris Mullins and Sam Perkins who played with him at North Carolina, and
Mullins played at St. John. They are sitting beside Mike, and I stood up in front of Mike, and I
said Mike I am trying to make sure now that we are going to go out the second half paying
attention. I said Mike we have played 20 minutes of basketball and you have yet to set a screen.
All you are doing- he had 21 points and 11 rebounds in the first half. This wasn?t easy for me to
do here, but never the less I undertook the task and I said Mike, t, you have not yet set one
screen. You know how important screening is in our offense. You have got to screen mike,
that's all there is to it. We have got to have 5 guys screening not 4! And Mike looked up at me
and with that million-dollar grin and he says coach, I read last week where you said I might be
one of the quickest players that you have ever coached, maybe the quickest. I said what the hell
does that have to do with screening Mike? And he said I think I am setting them quicker than

you can see them out there.
Audience: Laughing

Well, the coach has always got to have a rejoinder and so I go over to Mullins
and Perkins and said let me tell you two something. I said if Jordan, you two are in charge of
Jordan now. If Jordan doesn?t set three screens in the first four minutes I am taking you two out
of the game. Remember when you are coaching you got to be the person in charge. Alright?
Then I think that let?s see, I think I had [thinking noise] are we ready for some questions?

Audience laughing?

Robert you are the man in charge and I am going to do whatever the hell you say
to do. Robert had a suggestion that we have a question and answer session and as the man in

charge, I give you Robert Cardillo.

 

Audience: Applause

Director Cardillo: So I am going to pick up on your last story. Right? You are dealing with not
just pretty good players but the best players the country to produce at that moment in time to
represent the country. They clearly have come to the table motivated. They are each of them
individually have been super stars in their own way. How do you create a team out of super
stars?

I think that you talk to those kids in a way that they understand that they have a
chance to do something exceptional. I would love to be a part of your organization and why it's
because i think that you folks are doing something for millions of people. it?s a great thing that
you do. i think that when you are given the responsibilities that you have you know; our country
had had a history of being able to act with responsibilities. i think that is one of the things that
has to be a characteristic of all of you folks. Wanting to do something interesting, wanting to do
something successfully. In doing so it?s something that is going to help your country. I think that
is tremendously important for you folks to be very proud of what you do. With that, we are going
to open it up for questions. If we got anybody I think maybe, we might be able to do it without?-?
you have got a question? Wait a minute now. Wait a minute now. Don?t hurry here. I didn?t say
that I think the girls have microphone to use ifl am not mistakenfinish
before you give us don?t get hurt before you ask this question. lt's got to be a smart
question now. So take your chances and go ahead and ask this question.

Audience member: My question is about questions actually. You talked about never be afraid to
ask a question. As a leader if you just explained something, and then someone asks a question
that you know if they were paying attention to what you just explained it would have answer their
question. As a leader how do you handle that when you kind of know that they were only asking

a question because they weren?t paying attention?

Well, in my 39 years as a coach I only shot one kid. The rest of them knew
already that I expected an answer. I think that?s part of what you do as a leader. You say and
then a question is asked of you and i think you always have to be careful about giving a bad
answer. I think you are far better off by saying you know that is really a good question. Let me
think about that a little bit. Let?s talk about that. Let me see exactly what part of this do you want
to know about? think that as the head coach it?s your responsibility to really be as much help

 

as you can to your players. have never faulted a player for asking a question. One of my
favorites was at a time out when we were playing Michigan, one of my very best players with a
question right in the middle of time out this kid? we had a pretty good lead or I don?t think he
would ask this question but right in the middle of this time out in a big game this kid taps me on
the shoulder and I look at him and I said what is it Randy? He said coach is that referee the
worst referee you have ever seen? I said, no Randy we got him in the next game. Questions are
important and being able to answer them is important too. Who else has got a question? Does
he have a mic or what? [yeah right here] You got a mic? Go ahead!

Audience member: Good afternoon coach. I was born and raised in Frankfurt Indiana so I have
seen you work since I can ever remember. One thing I have noticed is how you have been able
to take players and exploit their other skills. Guys like Chris Smith, Todd Myer, guys who scored
a lot in high school, even Michael Lewis, they come in from high school and fill other roles than
their used to. Especially guys like Lewis who lead in school and assist. How do you get them to

get out of that comfort zone? How do you motivate them?

What I always did was this. I would sit down with the kid and tell him what I
wanted him to do. You know and I would let him know that I am the man in charge. Here is what
I want you to do. Here is what you can do really well for us. I would say maybe you rebound
better than anybody we have or maybe you play defense better than anybody else does. I would
always pick out something that knew you could do that would be a real help to us. If it
happened to be a guy like Randy Whitman who was a very good shooter I just stayed right with
that. I would also tell him that he has got to help us for 40 minutes, that he can?t shoot, take a
blow and not play defense. I think you simply work with your guys and if they have some kind of
deficiency you try to work on it. If it becomes a thorough deficiency you will limit them and we
are not going to shoot, or whatever. I never hesitate to say you are not going to shoot anymore.
[Charlie Miller knows that right?] But I do think that you work really, the people and what you
guys are doing there is a lot of sacrificing to be made. think you always got to be bring that to
their attention. I Would tell our kids; I would say hey I want you to know we work harder than
anybody else does. But we don?t work as tong as anybody else does. So you know some guys
practice in three hours and we are practicing an hour and forty minutes and we are conserving
what we have got. 80 that guy that is practicing three hours when there?s about six games left in

 

a season has a lot of tired players. I think when you are in charge you do all you can to think
about bene?ts for your players. Anything that you can do to help them, even if it's something like
hey I got you guys a set of pens or whatever and I Think the more when you are the guy in
charge, the more that your players understand that you are a hundred percent fort them I think
the more results you are going to get. Was that a good 40 second answer? [Yes sir] Have we

got?

Audience member: Yes sir, I wanted to ask you a question on an idea that was made popular by

the movie money ball. The idea that statistics or analysis of human beings can serve as a future
predictor of success. As opposed to the other thought where a person might say the ability to
read a human in intangible, personalities, strength, judgement, experience is another form of
decision making. I am interested in your opinion in how much, what proportion do you assign to
both schools of thought? What?s. how do you read a player? How do you make a judgement

based on [inaudible].

I think that in [inaudible] Robert, you are without question the man in charge. I will be glad, in
fact I Will be honored to take this microphone and absolutely refuse to do what those people
think I am going to do out there. Okay. Give me a quick brief on that again.

Audience member: to say something is measurable in terms of making a decision. analytics,
statistical analysis, what reviewing stats will tell you about a person as opposed to maybe what

your gut tells you about a person.

- I think it?s up to you, you are going to- like in recruiting, you know you had to do
what my profession was recruit a lot. You hear a lot of things from the coach, or from dad, I
have said this before and we got a lot of ladies here. Let me tell you how I would have dealt with
your kids, you ladies out here. When I was recruiting the first thing i tried to do was get your
husband?s the hell out of the house. I never thought that I wanted to deal with fathers. They
didn?t know their kids as well as mothers did. They didn?t have the same thoughts about the
kid?s future as the mother did. The more fathers we could get rid of, the better we recruited. So
that?s one point. But then I think that you can accept what the person working with you simply
wants to do. I think you have to grade that. You have to say is that what we need? If it is fine,
you work with that. If it isn?t what we need then we have got to work with something else. This

 

person is really energetic, works like hell, really hard worker, we have got to find something for
that person to do. That?s like in my case we have got a case that is not a particularly good
shooter, well he guards the hell out of people. Guys just can?t score against him. I have got use
that guy and I am going to work with him on his ability to shoot the ball. I may not be able to
make a great shooter out of this guy but I Do think it?s my responsibility to get him in a niche
where he can actually be of real help to our team. I think that?s your responsibility when you are
putting a team together or when you are looking at people. I don?t think you can ever take
somebody on anybody?s recommendation. I Think you have to take them on what you have
seen and then you have to decide whether they are capability of accomplishing what you need

to accomplish.

MC: Sir at this time we want to open it up to our external locations to see if anyone in VTC land
has a question. Okay well i also have a question from this audience. What do you want your

legacy to be as a leader and as a man?

My legacy as a leader just hope that when I get home tomorrow my wife still
likes me. That?s all I am hoping for. 

Audience: Clapping

I give you one last thing and first of all let me simply tell you, it's notjust a
pleasure for me to have an opportunity to visit with you it's a privilege. An afternoon spent with
people for whom I have a great admiration in what you do, and what you mean to our country
and I thank you for giving me that opportunity. Let me simply close it by saying another part of
being able to accomplish things is I think we have to realize that we cannot please everybody.
That?s just not possible, to please everybody. My thought in that regard, the old man and the
mule. They are going off to mark it. The grandfather and the grandson are walking the mule to
market. They go a few yards and a guy stops them and says, grandpa you should be riding the
mule. So grandpa gets on the mule and they ride a little bit and another guy stops them and this
guy says grandson you should be riding the mule instead of grandpa. So they change positions.
They go a little bit further and another guy stops them and he says grandpa, you and grandson
should both be riding the mule and so they both get on the mule and go a bit further. Another

 

guy stops them and says grandpa, you and grandson should be carrying the mule. So they get
off and they carry the mule a little ways and they cross a rail road bridge. Grandpa slips and the
mule goes off catapulting into the river and drowns and dies. The moral of the story is if you try
to please everybody you are sure to lose your ass. So with that I simply say thanks for allowing
me to talk to a group of people [clapping] that have an opportunity and I am sure will fulfill that
opportunity by being individually and collectively a tremendous asset to the United States of

America. Thanks.

Director Cardillo: You all heard when we first met. I don?t even remember when we first met, 3
or 4 years old this is one of my babysitters as you heard which might tell you a lot But then

 

shoot since I could I would go to camp, camp. The first one I went to was in
Storm King when you were leaving West Point, so that was 71 or so, and then preceded to go to
camp every year. Bloomingtonl I would spend my summers in Bloomington and just enjoy it. I
remember you know so, you know 11, 11, 12 and then I am getting into high school and started
playing basketball and thinking I am the man whatever team i am on. I don?t know maybe I am a
sophomore in high school so then I have visions. You know, where is this talent going to take
me? And now I realize coach was the man in charge and came and talked to me one summer
and put his big arm around me. He said you know you are going to do great things in life, I can
tell. You are not going to play basketball at Indiana University. After I picked myself off the floor,
the puddled mess I was, I realized that I needed that straight talk at that time and what not. But
Ivy League basketball maybe in your future, but don?t think you added that part. Coach, I can?t
thank you enough. Dad thanks for the intro. We have got a small, well it?s not so small but a
memento coach that we would like to present you. We know of your appreciation for history and
we appreciate what you said about this agency so this is a representation of a map that was
made to support the 0-day invasion with the summers coming ashore with our agency at the
bottom. We weren?t around for then but this is our heritage and our legacy. This is what we see
ourselves doing everyday making sure that those soldiers get ashore safely and achieve their
mission. We thought you could hang this somewhere as you are coming back to tie some new
lures or what not and think fondly upon your day here at NGA.

-: Well Robert, you know my feeling about history and about the military. This is a
tremendous thing that you folks have given me. I appreciate it very much. It will have a place

 

over our fireplace at home. i simply want to tell you a thing about your leader here. His mother
and father used to go out to the movies occasionally when I was a PFC at West Point and I
would take care of Robert and his brother George. George 4 or 4 years older and there wasn?t a
day that I took care ofthem when his parents went out to the movie at night that I didn?t at some
point say God it Robert sit down and be quiet.

Audience Laughing and Clapping.

Robert I want you to know that I am as proud of you as your dad is. And I can?t
think of a young guy that i would rather count on to represent, take care of, and work on behalf
of the United States with him and his people than you. wish you the very best there is.

RC: Thanks Coach. One more thing. Thank you very much. You talked aboutjoining the team. It
comes with a uniform. And so, that?s our team. Team GEOINT.

Those were the God colors Navy hadt

Audience: Laughing and clapping

Director Cardillo: Thanks coach. So, thank you. Thanks for the talk. Did you want to do
something here at the end - Do you mind if I close? 80 we are going to close now, thank
you all for attending. Coach and are going to walk out here to atrium if somebody wants to
come by and say hello, shake a hand, orjust wave, or head back to work. You are all back on

your own but thanks very much for joining.

Audience: Applause