Lieutenant Commander

Things They Carried,” First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is torn between the love he deserts at home and the troops he is assigned to protect in Vietnam. Under multiple circumstances Lieutenant Cross is found daydreaming about his “love” for Martha rather than focusing on the task at hand. Lieutenant Cross is blind in thinking that Martha returns the love that he endures for her; however, she still seems to remain in the forefront of his mind. Ted Lavender, one of Lieutenant Cross’s men, dies in the…

The door is locked. The mother knocks twice, but there is no answer. She knocks four more times, each rap on the wood with her manicured nails more intense than the last; the sinking feeling in her stomach deepens. Knocking turns to banging, banging to screaming, and screaming to destruction as the mother breaks down the door. Her son lies on the floor, white capsules surrounding his cold body. The rest is a blur. In the following years she does not sleep at night, guilt haunting her as a ghost…

Hideki Tojo Hideki Tojo was born on December 30, 1884 in Kojimachi, Tokyo, Japan. In 1899 Tojo entered the Army Cadet School. When Tojo graduated he was ranked 10th out of 363 cadets. In March of 1905 Hideki was commissioned as second lieutenant in the infantry of the IJA. 1928 Tojo became the Bureau Chief of the Japanese army. In the same year he was later promoted to Colonel. Tojo started to take pride in military politics and soon became a Major General in 1934. Hideki was involved with…

Robert: So, in your experience, four tenths below the Commanders average, how detrimental is that to someone’s career? Captain Rink: None whatsoever. Robert: Would that be evidence by the fact that he actually received a promotion? Captain Rink: Yes, absolutely. Robert: Okay, and again, I know that you said you had no knowledge of the conversation that he alleged that you had with him, but did that conversation play at all into the statement in the FITREP or making my .4 below your…

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…

Discussion Board Forum 4 Original Post Organizational Structure All work force professions face different types of business issues at some point. Faulty organizational structure can become a huge issue to experience since it can cause many other smaller problems within an organization. According to Bellini, Pereira and Becker (2016) “Organizational structure may be seen as ‘an arrangement of roles used in organizations to focus power, responsibility and accountability’ (Brophy et al., 2005, p.…

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…