Military order (instruction)

First Sergeant Darren Sullivan (right), the first sergeant of Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif., gives intense verbal instruction to a student of the ″Self-Discipline, Honor, Obedience, Character and Knowledge Program,[1] in Apple Valley, Calif., during a close-order drill session.

A military order or command is a binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context. Though not all senior ranks in all military have the right to give an order to all lower ranks.[2] A general order is a published directive by an officer in commander, which is binding on all ranks under his command, and intended to enforce a policy or procedure.

US Military

In the US military an operations order is a plan format meant which is intended to assist subordinate units with the conduct of military operations.

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References

  1. ↑ Marlene Carrillo Lopez: Caregivers' Perspectives on Self-Discipline, Honor, Obedience, Character and Knowledge (S.H.O.C.K.) Program California State University, San Bernardino 2012
  2. ↑ George Breckenridge Davis A Treatise on the Military Law of the United States 1913 1584776501 p385 "A staff officer has, except by assignment, no right to give a military order to an officer of the line ; if he should do so without stating that he did so in the name of a superior to the line officer, such order would be invalid."
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