1. Chain of Command

2. Command hierarchy - Chain of command
In a military context, the 'chain of command' is the line of authority and responsibility along which orders are passed within a military unit and between different units. Orders are transmitted down the chain of command, from a higher-military rank|ranked soldier, such as a commissioned officer, to lower-ranked personnel who either execute the order personally or transmit it down the chain as appropriate, until it is received by those expected to execute it.

3. Command hierarchy - Chain of command
Similarly, an officer is usually expected to give orders only to his or her direct subordinate, even if it is just to pass an order down to another service member lower in the chain of command than said subordinate.

4. Command hierarchy - Chain of command
The chain of command means that individual members take orders from only one superior and only give orders to a defined group of people immediately below them.

5. Command hierarchy - Chain of command
Depending on the situation or the standard procedure of the military organization, the lower-ranked member being ordered may choose to carry out the order anyway, or advise that it has to be cleared with his or her own chain of command first, which in this example would be with officer B

6. Command hierarchy - Chain of command
In addition, within combat units, line officers are in the chain of command, but officers in specialist fields (such as medical, dental, legal, supply, and chaplain) are not, except within their own specialty. For example, a medical officer in an infantry battalion would be responsible for the combat medics in that unit but would not be eligible to command the battalion or any of its subordinate units.

7. Organizing (management) - Chain of command
Chain of command is the vertical lines of a command structure that is used for the purposes of overall responsibility and accountability in the achieving of stated goals and objectives through the use of orders one direction and reports of compliance in the other direction. Chain of command differs from horizontal lines in an organization which are basically the communication and coordinating lines of the organization.

8. Air National Guard - Chain of command
As state militia units, the units in the Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command. They are under the jurisdiction of the United States National Guard Bureau unless they are federalized by order of the President of the United States. communications, Air National Guard Lineage and History, Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organizational Histories Branch Air Force Historical Research Agency

9. Goldwater-Nichols Act - Chain of command and military advice
The act also established the position of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and simplified the chain of command

10. Goldwater-Nichols Act - Chain of command and military advice
Section 162(b) of the Act prescribes that unless otherwise directed by the President, the chain of command to a unified or specified combatant command runs—(1) from the President to the Secretary of Defense and (2) from the Secretary of Defense to the commander of the combatant command.Goldwater–Nicholls DOD Reorganization Act, 10 USC 162, Combatant Commands; Assigned Forces; Chain of Command, Section (b), Chain of Command.

11. SS command of Auschwitz concentration camp - Senior chain of command
In addition to this direct chain of command, the geographical location of Auschwitz placed some of its supply and wartime functions under the authoirity of Regional SS and Nazi Party leaders

12. SS command of Auschwitz concentration camp - Senior chain of command
As well as falling under a direct and geographical chain of command, the nature of the work at Auschwitz also had the camp coming under the sphere of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt, or RSHA

13. Chain of command (disambiguation)
The 'Command hierarchy#Chain of command|chain of command' is the line of authority and responsibility along which orders are passed within a military unit and between different units

14. Chain of command (disambiguation)
* Chain of Command (1994 film)|Chain of Command (1994 film), a 1994 action TV film, starring Michael Dudikoff

15. Chain of command (disambiguation)
* Chain of Command (2000 film)|Chain of Command (2000 film), a 2000 political thriller TV film, starring Roy Scheider and Patrick Muldoon

16. Chain of command (disambiguation)
* Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, a 2004 nonfictional book by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh

17. Chain of command (disambiguation)
* Chain of Command (album)|Chain of Command (album), a 2004 album by power metal group Jag Panzer

18. Army Achievement Medal - Chain of Command approval
For the Army, battalion commanders (or the first O-5 in a soldier's chain of command) is the approving authority for the Army Achievement Medal.

19. Israeli Navy - Chain of Command
The Israeli Navy is small compared to other Navies and the officers chain of command is as follows with respect to [ Royal – Navy] / United States Navy officer rank insignia|United States:

20. Israeli Navy - Chain of Command
The same resolution as mentioned above applies to the rank of Commodore. There is ceremonial-only sleeve rank of Rear–Admiral while by the IDF hierarchy and chain of command he remains a commodore.

21. G.I. Joe Team - Chain of Command
Joe: A Real American Hero episodes#ep201|first episode of the second season, Flint explains to Beach Head, “First comes Hawk, then Duke, then me, and finally you,” clearly stating the overall chain of command up to that point

22. Organizational structure of the United States Department of Defense - Chain of Command
The President and the Secretary of Defense exercise authority and control of the Armed Forces through two distinct branches of the chain of command

23. Organizational structure of the United States Department of Defense - Chain of Command
The Act states that the operational chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the Combatant Commanders

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