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What It Takes to Direct Plans and Programs at a Joint Base
Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Is Not a Quiet Assignment Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling sits in Washington DC and hosts units from multiple military branches plus defense agencies. Directing plans and programs at a joint base means working across service cultures, competing priorities, and administrative systems that weren’t designed to talk to each other. Jason Goins Air Force…
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The Perfect Pint: How Paul Leongas Earned the Guinness Gold Standard at The Curragh
In 2002, The Curragh Traditional Irish Pub earned the Guinness Gold Standard Award for the Perfect Pint. People sometimes assume an award like that is about luck or marketing. It is not. It is about getting a hundred small things right, every time, on a product most customers think is simple. I learned more about…
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Why Counter-WMD Policy Needs Scientists at the Table
Policy Without Science Is Guesswork Counter-WMD policy in Washington DC involves some of the highest-stakes decisions in national security. Which threats are credible? What detection capabilities exist? How should resources be allocated across nuclear, chemical, and biological programs? Jason Goins Air Force officer worked as a counter-WMD policy analyst, bringing scientific training directly into those…
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Paul Leongas on Hiring, Hosting, and the Habits That Carried Into Development
The restaurant business is a people business first and everything else second. You can have the best location and the best product, and it still falls apart if you cannot hire well and take care of the people who walk in. Those two habits, hiring and hosting, shaped me more than any others, and Paul…
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The Story Behind a U.S. Patent on Cargo Ramp Design
Patents Don’t Come From Brainstorming Sessions In 2023, Jason Goins Air Force officer received a U.S. patent for a cargo ramp design. That sentence is easy to read and easy to forget. But a patent represents years of work: identifying a specific problem, testing solutions, documenting results, and surviving the scrutiny of the U.S. Patent…
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Paul Leongas on Why a Great Bar and a Great Building Solve the Same Problem
On the surface, running a bar and developing commercial real estate have nothing in common. One is late nights and conversation. The other is permits and foundations. But the longer I do the second, the more I see how much the first prepared me for it. To me, Paul Leongas, a great bar and a…
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How Persistent Surveillance Teams Stay Effective
The Problem With Never Blinking Persistent surveillance sounds straightforward: watch a target continuously and report what you see. In practice, it’s one of the most demanding intelligence operations the military runs. Analysts rotate through shifts. Sensors require calibration. Data feeds drop and resume. The “persistent” part depends entirely on whether humans and systems can maintain…
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How Paul Leongas Went From Pouring Pints to Pouring Foundations
People who knew me behind the bar are sometimes surprised by what I do now. For a long stretch of my life, my work was hospitality. Today it is commercial real estate. The two look unrelated from the outside, but the move from one to the other made complete sense to me, and this site…
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Coordinating 74 Agencies for a National Special Security Event
When a NATO Summit Comes to Town A NATO summit is not just a diplomatic gathering. It’s a security operation that pulls in local police, federal agencies, military units, intelligence services, and about sixty other organizations that all need to work from the same playbook. Jason Goins Air Force officer coordinated readiness for a National…
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Paul Leongas on the Family Business, From The Curragh to Holland Pub
Business runs in my family. It always has. When people ask Paul Leongas about his background, the story does not start with real estate. It starts with my sisters and me buying The Curragh Traditional Irish Pub, and it includes a business my family still runs, Holland Pub LLC, up in Holland, Michigan. There is…