This is Jockel Podcast number 363 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

All commanders should consider the professional development of their subordinates,

a principal responsibility of command.

Commanders should foster a personal teacher, student relationship with their subordinates.

Commanders are expected to conduct a continuing professional education program for their subordinates,

which includes developing military judgment and decision making and teaches general professional subjects

and specific technical subjects pertinent to occupational specialties.

Useful tools for general professional development include supervised reading programs,

map exercises, war games, battle studies, and terrain studies.

Commanders should see the development of their subordinates as a direct reflection of themselves.

Finally, every Marine has a basic responsibility to study the profession of arms on his own.

A leader without either interest in or knowledge of the history, the theory of warfare,

and the intellectual content of his profession is a leader in appearance only.

Self-study in the art and science of war is at least equal in importance

and should receive equal time to maintaining physical condition.

This is particularly true among officers, after all, and officers' principal weapon is his mind.

And that right there is a little excerpt from the Fleet Marine Force Manual 1, war fighting.

A book that was commissioned by General Algrae, the 29th Commodant of the Marine Corps,

and one of the most iconic Commodants of the Marine Corps.

It's one of the first manuals that we covered on this podcast.

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