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Lieutenant General Dave Bellon - From JAG to General: The Career Nobody Saw Coming
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- Moments in Leadership
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- Jun 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 7036
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Summary
Most people think of a Marine general and picture a lifetime of infantry commands and combat deployments. They'd be right about Dave Bellon but they'd be missing half the story. In this conversation, Lieutenant General Dave Bellon (Ret.) pulls back the curtain on the parts of his career he rarely talks about: switching from JAG officer to infantry lieutenant, back to JAG, and into a capital murder defense case that put him at the center of one of Camp Pendleton's most high-profile court martials defending a Marine convicted of killing a fellow officer in broad daylight. Then there's the story of Task Force Scorpion, a rocket strike that took out a regimental commander within days of his arrival, and a chaplain who cleared the room and gave two majors communion before sending them back to fight. Dave and I have been friends since TBS, and this episode is about what you learn watching someone you've known since they were a lieutenant become a three-star general and what he learned along the way about command, compassion, humility, and what actually matters when the uniform comes off. FOLLOW, SUBSCRIBE, AND SUPPORT Join the Moments in Leadership Supercast community https://mil.supercast.com/ Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moments-in-leadership/id1547856712 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1hQl53NzCiJwlWS9xQZFw9 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MomentsinLeadership Official Website https://www.momentsinleadership.com