Major Schultz is a logistics officer serving as a planner at the 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade in Okinawa, Japan. He previously served as a platoon commander with Combat Logistics Battalion 4 in Iraq, the assistant operations officer of Combat Logistics Battalion 3 in Afghanistan, and the company commander of Motor Transport Company, Marine Wing Support Squadron 172. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from York College of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in management, strategy, and leadership from Michigan State University, and is a graduate of the Art of War Scholars program at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Articles by Matthew Schultz

Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman, much like the old man in one of his most famous books. The commitment and humility of his aged Cuban fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea offer strong lessons for military leaders.

Follow the Old Man’s Example

By Major Matthew Schultz, U.S. Marine Corps
February 2021
Courage, commitment, and humility—some of the greatest virtues of the profession of arms—are illustrated masterfully, yet obscurely, by Ernest Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea.