TonyGroce
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| 22 Jun 2014 02:40 PM |
1.) Exercising Command Needs.
2.) The Character of the Officer and his Relations with the Men- Leadership, Knowledge. Sense of Duty. Self-respect. -. Relalions wiih his Men. Knowing his Men. Orders.
3.) Dicipline- Example of the Officer. Public Opinion. Comradeship. Drill as an Aid to Discipline. Discipline of Officer
1.-EXERCISING COMMAND. An officer newly commissioned has much to learn besides his training in the field. He is ignorant of the art of command, of discipline, of his proper relations to his superiors or his men. He cam hardly be alive to the responsibilities laid on him, and knows little of his moral duties, which are not laid down in Anny Manuals, and cannot be tested by examinations or inspections. Many a young other seems to think that to be an ofticer simply means receiving salutes, getting more pay, a mess to feed in, and better quarters, and that his duties are to come on parade at the right time, and drill or march with his men. A man who so thinks has no idea of tho responsibilities of his position or the duties he has under taken. Until he realizes both, he is no use what ever as an officer.
The right use of this authority consists in exercising command well. A officer is really an individual whose trade is to exercise command, and if he will not learn that trade he is only a false officer, a well-paid impostor carrying badges of rank. He may he a fighting man and might make a good private in the ranks, but as an officer he is really worth nothing to his country. Let us therefore consider what exercising command means. It does not, as probably civilians think, mean merely getting obeyed.
If a unit is to do efficient work, each soldier in has to do much more than merely obey orders; he has got to "playy the game" willingly and intelligently, and so contribute his sliarc to the common task in the spirit that his training has taught him, and. his orders have indicated. The right exercise of command will be discussed under three heads:- 1.) The officer's character and his relations with his men. 2.) Discipline. 3.) Care of the men.
-THE CHARACTER OF THE OFFICER. An officer requires a clear mind and a strong character to command the respect of his men.” This respect is the foundation of efficient command, and the officer should realize that. it is not possible that he should be truly respected by his men unless he has to some degree qualities for which his men can respect him. The first of these qualities is undoubtedly the power of leading men-that inexplicable combination of ch@rm with masterfulness which great soldiers have always possessed.
The next quality is sense of duty and devotion to its performance, without which the former qualities in themselves do not suffice to make a good officer. It is conceivable that a man might be gifted with the art of leadership, and clever enough to know his work well, and yet be always looking after his own interests, and not really devoted to his duty. That man, with all his powers of leadership and intelligence, will not be a good officer, where as a man not so gifted by nature may yet secure the respect of his men when they realize that he is actuated by a sense of duty in everything that he does, without thinking of. his own interests, comfort, or safety. |
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