Will you give me an military explanation on the chain of Command?

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Answer 1

The Chain of Command is a very simple, yet efficient, concept.
Think about a company such as Microsoft: What would happen if, every time an employee had a problem, they approached Bill Gates? Mr. Gates would probably end up spending 24 hours a day at work answering only a small percentage of problems per day. This is certainly not a very efficient way to do things!
Similarly, in the military, whenever you have a problem, you do not directly approach the President of the United States for assistance. Instead, you would follow something called the chain of command.

The chain of command works like this:
First of all, all individuals are classified into small units called "Fire-Teams". Consisting of about 5 or 6 people, the members of this Fire-Team would approach their Fire-Team leader in the event that a problem arose.
Assuming that the Fire-Team Leader was unsuccessful in solving the problem, that Fire-Team leader would ask the next person in his chain of command for assistance: the Squad Leader.
The Squad Leader would now try to solve the problem using the resources s/he has available. If the Squad Leader is also unable to successfully resolve the problem, then they would forward the problem to the Platoon Sergeant.
At this point, the Platoon Sergeant will also try to solve the problem. If they fail, then it moves up to the Platoon Commander.
This cycle would repeat (each time with a senior officer) until the problem itself has been resolved.

The purpose of the Chain of Command, in a sense, is to enable lower ranking personnel to deal with the large quantities of "simple problems;" thus leaving the more-senior personnel to deal with fewer, more complex issues surrounding the unit.

Of course, the only purpose of the Chain of Command is, by far, not simply problem-solving. It also serves a multitude of other purposes, as well.
One such example of this is the accountability set forth by the Chain of Command. Within this, each person in the Chain of Command is directly accountable to the person above them for anything that their subordinates do (or fail to do).

Answer 2

If your a Private in the Military and you have a problem you would follow the chain of command. For instance you are having a problem with your Quarters, you would go to the SGT that is directly over you, if you don't feel that the SGT has done what was needed to rectify the situation then you would take it to your 1st Sgt. then your Company Officer, and so on and so on.
If you are in the Military now and this is a question you need answers to because you are needing to follow your chain of command, then I would recommend that you do not break it it can lead to major disciplinary problems.

Answer 3

It's quite simple, really. It's knowing your place on the "food Chain". In other words, everyone, and I mean everyone, in the military is subordinate to someone else. Let's take the Navy for example (because I can speak from experience from the Navy). Let's say you just graduated from boot camp as an E-3 (Seaman) and are assigned to the Weapons Department of an Aircraft Carrier in the Pacific Fleet. Your chain of command (typically) would be:

1. The Commander-in-Chief (President of the United States)
2. The Secretary of the Navy
3. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) (4 star admiral)
4. Commander in Charge, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CinCPACFLT) (4 star admiral)
5. Commander, whatever Task Force your ship is assigned (either a 2 star (Rear Admiral) or 3 Star (Vice Admiral))
6. Commanding Officer, USS Whatever (Captain)
7. Executive Officer, USS Whatever (Captain or Commander)
8. Weapons Officer, USS Whatever (Commander or Lieutenant Commander)
9. Division Officer, Weapons Department, USS Whatever (Lieutenant or Lieutenant Junior Grade)
10. Departmental Leading Chief Petty Officer, USS Whatever (master Chief Petty Officer or Senior Chief Petty Officer)
11. Division Leading Chief Petty Officer, USS Whatever (Senior Chief Petty Officer or Chief Petty Officer)
12. Division Leading Petty Officer (Petty Officer First Class)
13. Group Supervisor (Petty Officer First Class or Petty Officer Second Class)
14. Immediate Supervisor (Petty Officer Second Class or Petty Officer Third Class)
15. Leading Seaman
16. YOU

The chain of command is basically a decision making process with levels of responsibility and associated authority all the way from you to the President of the United States and will vary from command to command. In the Navy, each command has what is called a "SORM" manual (Ship's Organization and Regulations Manual) that defines the specific chain of command for everyone from the lowliest seaman through the Commander in Chief, and everyone aboard the ship is responsible for knowing, from memoery, who occupies each level of their respective chain of command. Oh, and you also have what are known as "Operational" and "Administrative" chains of command, which may or may not be totally different from each other. But, you still have to know them from memory.

Answer 4

the chain of command is basically like a list of your bosses. Its starts with the person you immediately work for and goes up to the president. I'll use a store as a reference. your chain of command would be something like, your shift supervisor, the assitant manager, the manager, the district manager, and so forth till you get to the ceo of that company, make sense?

Answer 5

your chain of command is the people that are above you in rank. You being a private lets say. Your next person you would talk to in your chain of command would be either a corporal or a sargent. If they did not help then it would go to you platoon sgt, or next one up. In the army it would be your 1st sgt. Then it would go to the XO. then to company commander and so on.

Answer 6

Well, each branch has a different chain of command. I'm not quite sure what you mean with this question.

I was in the Marines, and ours started out with the Pres, VP, Secretary of Defense, and then it went to the Secretary of the Navy.

Answer 7

do u have a pet? so here we go u tell your dog to sit it should ok so if your comannding officer tells u to take a break thats a chaine of command simply put. but it's more than that if one person doesn't do his job as told to do then it won't work so there has to be someone in conrol he's called a genaral but he also has a boss tha president

Answer 8

1. commander in Chicongres get in there to sometime, and ef of all armed forcse except the left
2. VP the presidenats next main squeeze
3armed forces committie
4. the supreame allied commander
your battaiolen commander then your battery then your paltoo then your squad.

Answer 9

The most simple explanation.....everyone has a boss.

Answer 10

sale your self 2 do government,& u find out,if u that stupid.