Word: commandeering
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...command of Major General Wood: Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff, Official: W. A. SIMPSON, Adjutant General, Adjutant. Adjutant...
...formations in ranks, except when actually receiving instruction, cadets will be brought to "attention" by the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge upon the approach of a tactical instructor. The officer or noncommissioned officer in charge will then salute the instructor and give the command "rest" or "at ease" after the instructor has passed, or if he remains in the vicinity and so directs. The tactical instructors referred to herein are the Commandant and other commissioned officers of the Army other commissioned officers attached to the Department of Military Science and Tactics, the battalion commanders and their adjutants...
...formations in ranks, except when actually receiving instruction, cadets will be brought to "attention" by the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge upon the approach of a tactical instructor. The officer or noncommissioned officer in charge will then salute the instructor and give the command "rest" or "at ease" after the instructor has passed, or if he remains in the vicinity and so directs. The tactical instructors referred to herein are the Commandant and other commissioned officers of the Army, other commissioned officers attached to the Department of Military Science and Tactics, and the battalion commanders and their adjutants...
...other occasions cadets, if in uniform, will come to "attention" upon the approach of a tactical instructor. If grouped together the cadet officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, as the case may be, will command "attention," and the senior will salute if covered (with headdress); if uncovered (with out headdress) he, like the rest, will simply stand at attention until the instructor has passed or has acknowledged the salute. In the case of individuals, not in a group, each will render the courtesy prescribed...
...elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...