Commander-in-chief

rescue arriving before five days, and only enough air to last twenty men two days. Commander Oram decides to save five lives, who will have enough air to stay alive till they are rescued, instead of allowing everyone on board the submarine to die after two…

Building the Team with Mutual Trust in a Positive Command Climate There are six principles of Mission Command (MC) and each is key to establishing, running, and leading an effective unit. In this essay, I will address one principle with a subsection paramount to producing a successful unit. I will incorporate this principle and subsection from MC into my next assignment either as a Sergeant Major (SGM) or Command Sergeant Major (CSM). This does not mean the remaining five principles are not…

needs to be every efficient in decision making when it comes to battle and the presence of his subordinates, but not overly ostentatious. Castiglione wants his courtier to obey his commander, but be able to make his own decisions based off his own intelligence. This individual needs to know about the great commanders from the past such as, Caesar, Scipio Africanus, and Alexander, who fought for glory and their names to revered for all time. However, the courtier should not seek the praise that…

three commanders got on the bus one after the other. Their uniform nice and ironed with a bright green rope hanging from their shoulders to symbolize that they were commanders. All three of them had two bars sewed onto both sleeves to mark their rank. Both of these things giving them authority. Introduced themselves but told us that we were to never call them by their name. To us they are Commanders one, two, and three. Right them we all knew that basic training had begun. Our new commanders…

My freshman year in high school I gained a valuable experience. I was appointed deputy drill commander of Dixie AFJROTC Unarmed Team, promoted ahead of, and out-performing upper-class men, creating a degree of resentment. Eventually I was able to overcome resistance to my command by demonstrating competence in both my ability to lead and respect my…

SOPs regarding their job and their mission. Be it call for fire, CASEVAC 9-lines, fire and maneuver, etc. the infantryman will know how to do it. Intelligence Marines train to satisfy intelligence requirements to reduce uncertainty for the commander. They know how to leverage assets to satisfy those requirements, and reduce the commander’s uncertainty. In short, mission tactics provide a foundation for junior Marines to become leaders. After enough repetitions, these responses become…

“‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…

MEMORANDUM THRU Chief, RTSD EAST MEMORANDUM TO Director, Training Support Activity Europe SUBJECT: Trip Report, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade Training Management Review (TMR). 1. Purpose of this Trip: Attendance at the 12th CAB TMR 2. Executive Summary: 12th CAB held their TMR on 27 October 2016, from 1500 to 1745 hours at building Berlin conference room clay Kaserne. The BDE Commander, COL Waters and his BN Commanders and staff briefed the USAREUR Deputy Commander, MG McGuire and USAREUR…

soldier will experience a form of trauma is almost guaranteed. It was no different for Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft. In her book, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital, she discusses the trauma that she experienced in her seven months in Iraq, along with effects it had on her when she first returned back to the states. Dr. Heidi Kraft was a psychologist Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. She…

I quickly capitalized on the Navy’s request for Coast Guard support and based on the mission assigned to Coast Guard, I approached the Chief of Navy Intelligence (a two star Admiral) with a plan that addressed a combination of requirements by both Navy and Coast Guard intelligence officers assigned to the battle group. The Chief of Navy Intelligence endorsed my requirements and approved my plan, but getting the funding required still required approval by a DoD intelligence (DODIIS)…