During National Veterans and Military Families month and in honor of Remembrance Day, RSVets will host a discussion with Group Captain Clive Blount, RAF (ret) and Captain Roy Love, USN, (ret) – two veterans who served in leadership roles on land, sea and in the air across the globe. These veterans have decades of service during military conflicts as well as experience leading military bases and training programs.
Join Clive and Roy and hear their Tips to develop a leadership personality:
- Understanding the difference between leading and managing
- Developing ‘Soft power”
- Showing “steel’ after developing trust
- Training your relief
Group Captain Blount was a fast-jet navigator flying a number of aircraft, primarily the Tornado. He commanded the Air Base in Gibraltar and completed a number of operational tours, including setting up military training in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has been published in numerous journals along with providing expert testimony to government committees on strategy subjects including the use of drones. He was assigned to the Air War College, Maxwell, AL where he ran the Grand Strategy course teaching high ranking military personnel from the US and 43other countries.. Clive is now a marine instructor involved in small boats, and a Non-Executive Director on the board of Cowes Harbour.
Captain Love commanded Naval Base San Diego (NBSD), the second-largest Naval Base in the U.S., and served as Executive Assistant to Commander Navy Installations Command (who leads 10 Navy Regions and 70 Naval Installations worldwide, with over 50,000 employees). At sea, he was Captain of the USS BOONE (FFG 28) -- the first Afro-Latino to command a US warship and a US Naval Base, and deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2008. He is currently President of the Association of Naval Services Officers, dedicated to recruiting, retaining, and promoting Hispanics and Latinos across all United States Sea Services ranks.
Voirrey Blount is a trainee in the London office and a veteran of the British Royal Navy Reserves. She also served in the British Merchant Navy/Merchant Marine for eight years.
