The ethos of the Royal Marines: the precise application of will

Independent report commissioned by the Commandant, Commando Training Centre, Royal Marines, Lympstone, July 2004.The current debates about ethos in the military have been wrongly conceived. Ethos is not an intangible spiritual substance which is related in some unspecified way to the moral component of fighting power. Ethos refers simply to what a group does and how it does it. The ethos of the Royal Marines refers to their role and the way they achieve it. Since the Second World War, the Royal Marines have developed a three-fold role. They are a commando force specialising in amphibious, mountain and cold weather warfare. This difficult role requires certain characteristics which are developed in training; unity, adaptability, humility, standards, fortitude and a sense of humour. It is by means of these qualities that the Royal Marines are able to fulfil their role successfully. The ethos of the Royal Marines might be summarised as the precise application of will.Commandant, Commando Training Centre, Royal Marines, Lympstone

Stephen Whitehead, Deborah Whitehead v. American Motors Sales Corporation, Jeep Corporation, Larry Anderson, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company : Brief of Appellant

Brief of Appellant

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Stephen Whitehead, Deborah Whitehead v. American Motors Sales Corporation, Jeep Corporation, Larry Anderson, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company

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Stephen Whitehead, Deborah Whitehead v. American Motors Sales Corporation, Jeep Corporation, Larry Anderson, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company : Brief of Appellant

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The planning, intelligence, execution and aftermath of the Dieppe raid, 19 August 1942

On 19 August 1942 a mixed Anglo-Canadian amphibious force raided the German occupied port of Dieppe in Normandy, France, resulting in probably the worst disaster in Canadian military history. The operation, code-named Jubilee, lasted just nine hours and resulted in more casualties, proportionate to the forces involved, than in any other Western Allied operation of the war. As with any military failure, immediate myths and misconceptions arose that have simmered to boiling point many times during the last fifty years,Please be aware that the text in the supplied thesis pdf file may not be as clear as text in a thesis that was born digital or digitised directly from paper, due to the conversion in format. However, all of the theses in Apollo that were digitised from microfilm are readable and have been processed by optical character recognition (OCR) technology which means the reader can search and find text within the document

Stephen Whitehead, Deborah Whitehead v. American Motors Sales Corporation, Jeep Corporation, Larry Anderson, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company : Brief of Respondent

Brief of Respondent

The word of command: communication and cohesion in the military

© 2006 by Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.Military sociologists have attempted to explain how military institutions develop and maintain high levels of social cohesion. They have focused primarily on how the personal and intimate social interactions between soldiers produce bonds of comradeship. This comradeship is taken as the basis of social cohesion. Although sustainable, there is an unfortunate bias in the work of military sociologists. They focus almost exclusively on informal rituals in which personal bonds are forged. In fact, the decisive rituals that bind military groups together are the formal processes of training. Drawing on ethnographic analysis of the British armed forces and the Royal Marines, in particular, this article attempts to redress the balance. It examines the drills—above all, the communication drills—that British troops are collectively trained to perform and claims that these constitute the key social rituals for the British military. On the basis of this analysis, an alternative account of comradeship is propose

Copper Commando - Butte Labor-Management Issue

In this issue...W. Ellison Chalmers, War Production Drive, pioneering teamwork, Labor-Management Committee, Crafts Unions, American Federation of Labor, absenteeism, Philip Murray, William Green, Sub-committeeshttps://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/copper_commando/1028/thumbnail.jp