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United States Department of Defense. The Armed Forces Officer
The Armed Forces Officer
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE. THE MEANING OF YOUR COMMISSION
CHAPTER TWO. FORMING MILITARY IDEALS
CHAPTER THREE. RESPONSIBILITY AND PRIVILEGE
CHAPTER FOUR. PLANNING YOUR CAREER
CHAPTER FIVE. RANK AND PRECEDENCE
CHAPTER SIX. CUSTOMS AND COURTESIES
CHAPTER SEVEN. KEEPING YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER
CHAPTER EIGHT. GETTING ALONG WITH PEOPLE
CHAPTER NINE. LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP
CHAPTER TEN. MAINSPRINGS OF LEADERSHIP
CHAPTER ELEVEN. HUMAN NATURE
CHAPTER TWELVE. GROUP NATURE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. THE MISSION
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. DISCIPLINE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. MORALE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. ESPRIT
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. KNOWING YOUR JOB
CHAPTER NINETEEN. KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR MEN
CHAPTER TWENTY. WRITING AND SPEAKING
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. THE ART OF INSTRUCTION
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR MEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. YOUR MEN'S MORAL AND PHYSICAL WELFARE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. KEEPING YOUR MEN INFORMED
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. COUNSELING YOUR MEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. USING REWARD AND PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. FITTING MEN TO JOBS
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. AMERICANS IN COMBAT
APPENDIX ONE. RECOMMENDED READING
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United States. Department of Defense
Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2
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It suffices to say of this minority that they are a barnacle on the hull of an otherwise staunch vessel. From such limited concepts of personal responsibility, there can not fail to develop a foreshortened view of the dignity of the task at hand. The note of apology is injected at the wrong time; the tone of belligerency is used when it serves no purpose. When someone arises within the halls of government to say that the military establishment is "uneconomic" because it cuts no bricks, bales no hay and produces nothing which can be vended in the market places, it is not unusual to hear some military men concur in this strange notion. That acquiescence is wholly unbecoming.
The physician is not slurred as belonging to a nonproductive profession because he contributes only to the care and healing of the body, and through these things to the general well-being of society. Respect for formal education, organized religion and all of the enterprises built up around the dissemination of ideas is not the less because the resultant benefit to society is not always tangible and saleable. Hence to say that that without which society could not endure in its present form is "uneconomic" is to make the word itself altogether meaningless.
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