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If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
Who has not served cannot command.
A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.
Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.
No fucking way. Commander? You ain't got enough stupid in you to be an officer," Jacqs blurted.
promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;
Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles.
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.
I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Greetings," he said. His tone admitted of no weakness whatsoever. "I am Drill Instructor (Slaughterhouse) Larry Southard. For my sins, I have been placed in charge of the latest intake of prospective marines. With
You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander.
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
He kissed me gently. 'Lieutenant Malachi Sokol, reporting for duty, Captain.'
'What?'
'I've been assigned to your field unit,' he whispered as he nuzzled my neck. Oh, man. Heaven. Help. Me. 'I'm afraid I'm already being shockingly insubordinate.
Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39
When you're in command, command.
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
I'm here to inform you that you have been recalled to active duty, Staff Sergeant, by special authority of the SOCOM initiative you agreed to when you were formerly released." Ty
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
The Official History of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops,
I do not believe in this command leadership. Dangerous doctrine 'yan ha. Because you cannot know everything your men do.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
My duty is to obey orders.
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon
Is that not what a commander must do, earn respect, give them discipline and ... love them?
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of his, and his smile. "Ah," he said. "At long last, a promotion.
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you."
"Sir?"
"It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority."
"Sir?"
"That's practically zen.
No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.
Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me.
First of all, the Captain rates the honorific 'sir.' You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass.
I am now a commander of the British Empire.
It's Officer, actually. Where are you
No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.
OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general.
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear.One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,
to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.
I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
Do we expect a fight, Gunnery Sergeant?" "We always expect a fight, Private Kichar. We're Marines; it's what we do.
Captain," said I,
Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.
It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.
You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
Jason shouted in his best drill-sergeant voice: Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!
He who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander
The only real owner of anything is its commander;
Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
To the everlasting glory of the Infantry -
I am myself my own commander.
[Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told.
Artemis Fowl
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.
But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
What did you call me?"
"Captain No-Fun.
I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy."
"They didn't ask for papers or proof?"
"In this rain?" Olem gestured at the downpour. "You don't understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
The Commanding Heights
He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.
An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
A call to duty, a call for service.
I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.
For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
You get a promotion?"
"I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [ ... ]"
"You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me."
"We're a bit more subtle.
Chaplain Vega's a tall Mexican guy with a mustache that looks like it's about to jump off his face and fuck the first rodent it finds. Kind of mustache only a chaps could get away with in the military.
staff of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet and submitted his narrative in 2001. With the ongoing war in Iraq, I felt it appropriate that a broader audience have access to Commander Winkler's work.
Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said.
"He once made a general cry."
"No."
"I shit you not. The guy had to retire after that. I mean, really, who's going to follow your orders after some damn colonel's reduced you to tears?
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
Hi there. You must be the boss of this operation. I'm Bonnie, formerly known as B785, or as the general liked to fondly call me, that irritating bloody bitch. But you can call me your newest pain in the ass.
Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital.
Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns!
The soldier is the army.