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\u201cTen-hut!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retired Army Lt. Col. Platte Moring III brings his political science class to attention, just as he was\ntrained to do when a senior officer\nis present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The class of\ncadets, now\nstanding, watches as Citadel President Gen. Glenn M. Walters, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), \u201979, and Provost Sally Selden, Ph.D., walk into the room for a surprise visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re all\ngoing to\nparticipate in\nsomething,\u201d says Walters. \u201cProfessor Moring got an\naward for\nhis long and dedicated service to our\ncountry. In\na minute, I\u2019m going to call attention to orders, and we\u2019ll read the\ncitation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service is the highest award presented to a civilian by the secretary of defense. The award recognizes Moring\u2019s work in the DOD Office of General Counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was just flabbergasted by the whole thing,\u201d says Moring. \u201cI had no idea it was coming\u2014it was a great surprise. It\u2019s not every day you get pinned by a four-star general and the president of the college with the provost present. My class was totally impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The award citation lists some of his many achievements after retiring from the U.S. Army, including overseeing the writing of the statute that created U.S. Space Force. But it is more than just his accomplishments in the DOD that brought Moring to The Citadel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, he was called\nout of reserve status to serve\nin Operation Iraqi Freedom, but just before Moring\nwas set to leave the country, then-President Bush announced the end of the war in Iraq. Moring decided to\npunch his ticket and continue with his plans\nto deploy, this time to Afghanistan. There, he\nwas\nappointed commander of the Kabul compound.\nOn his third day, he met with Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, who was in charge of security sector reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moring walked into his office and saluted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cColonel, what\u2019s that on your collar?\u201d Moring remembers the general asking. Moring told him that it was the insignia\nof the Judge Advocate General\u2019s Corps, but Eikenberry already\nknew that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, no lawyer\u2019s running my compound,\u201d Eikenberry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first Moring was\ninsulted because he knew he was fully capable of\ntaking charge. Then he\nrealized that Eikenberry was suggesting that he make better use of his skills. Eikenberry immediately asked him if he would like to work on the Afghanistan constitution instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moring then spent his time working with the Constitution Commission, even drafting language for the document specifying civilian control of the military \u2014 a requirement for any nation applying to join NATO. In January 2004, after months of work, he attended the country\u2019s constitutional convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was sitting with my interpreter, and President Karzai was speaking. Suddenly, everybody stood up and then everybody sat down. I asked my interpreter what just happened, and he said, \u2018We just votedfor the Afghanistan constitution.\u2019 So it got passed. We were so proud in 2004 that we had a plan for Afghanistan. We had hope for these people and their new, democratic constitution. And then, of course, 15 years later, everything fell apart.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there were bright spots in between those two key events, both for Moring and for the new nation as a whole. He taught at Kabul University, educating men and womenabout law. The women\u2014living in a world that suddenly allowed them to attend school and be seen in public without a burka\u2014made the biggest impression on Moring. He remembers them as quiet, always sitting together in front. On their final exams, the students wrote their names in Arabic. Moring, who could not read them, graded the students blindly. In the end, the best student in the class was a woman named Naomi, who would go on to get a master\nof law degree and teach international law at Herat University in western Afghanistan. He has not\nheard from Naomi since the country\u2014and its constitution\u2014fell. He can only hope she was able\nto get out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the real-life experiences Moring brings with him to the Military College of South Carolina. These are the lessons the cadets in his class benefit from every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe cadets have a sense of honor that you do not see at any other American university…\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think everything I\u2019ve done to date has brought me to this point, whether it\u2019s being a civilian lawyer, a military lawyer or teacher. I think my collective experiences have placed me here at The Citadel so that I have an opportunity to give something back to the younger folks,\u201d he says. \u201cThe cadets have a sense of honor that you do not see at any other American university, and they\u2019re trying to do the right thing. They do want to learn and they do want to succeed, not necessarily as military officers, but they want to become leaders. And I\u2019m all about leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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