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A good place to start would be with the Commandant's Reading List linked here.
http://guides.grc.usmcu.edu/usmcreadinglist
http://guides.grc.usmcu.edu/usmcreadinglist
Home - Commandant's Professional Reading List - Official Site - Research Guides Home at Library...
Official site of the Marine Corps Commandant's Professional Reading List per ALMAR 009-16. This site outlines the annual and recommended reading requirements for all Marines.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
SSG James Behnke You'll never teach a Grunt to give up a tasty crayon, especially when presented with the 64 pack with sharpener!
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LCpl Emanuel W.
SGM Mikel Dawson - Crayola is the best! Very high quality wax for the money! The metallic colors are a great delicatessen. LOL
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Good for you on wanting to take the initiative, but you don't need to read books to become a good officer. A great officer listens to the advice of his superiors and trains just as hard if not harder than his Marines. And, if you really want to be great you need to take every bit of advice you can from your staff NCO's and NCO's. Because you might make the final call, but missions aren't won by an officer. They're won by the platoon as a whole. Good luck with your time in the Marine Corps.
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Cpl Andrew Vadnais
LCDR (Join to see) - Mad Dog was great because of his Marines, and the fact that he listened to them. Being well educated in war was just a plus for him. In reality though as much as I respect him and all other officers in our military, no officer is great without his enlisted personnel and the knowledge that he gets from them. This country needs great officers who can lead Marines under extremely stressful combat situations, and come out in the end with minimal or no casualties and a big W. Sorry but you cannot learn that in a book.
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Brother, I agree with you. I just think you need both. You can't just throw out all the knowledge and experience contained in books and say, "Just listen to your enlisted personnel." That will make a poor leader just as surely as someone who ignores the enlisted personnel and tries to gain all their knowledge from books.
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Cpl Andrew Vadnais
LCDR (Join to see) - my other comment must not have posted. I apologize. It basically said I agree with you as well, and that I'll meet in the middle and say you need both to be a great Marine officer. I'm just trying to stress to this aspiring Devil Dog that he needs to listen to those experienced combat hardened Marines underneath him. I have met way too many young Marine officers that were arrogant and chose not to listen. Not trying to talk bad about officers. I just want him to know that when shit hits the fan he will need to use the things he learns from his experienced men if he wants to bring all of them home.
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Citizen Soldier: Will give you a good insight into what the American soldier is capable of on his own. How soldiers learn to adapt to a situation, overcome and complete the mission no matter what. Then remember as an officer not to micro manage your troops and let them think and do their job.
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"A Soldiers Load", The Mask of Command", Lee's Lieutenants", "The Art of War", etc... There are a huge number of books on Command and Leadership. The Commandants Reading List, is a good place to start. Thing is, they are only books, many set in times gone by, and while many of the traits and principals are valid, they must be, in some ways, adapted to todays military. Study the USMC Leadership Traits and Principals.
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I think any leader should read "A Cup of My Coffee 3". Easy and quick read but highlights some very good points of what a good leader does.
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