Page 169 - NS-2 Textbook

162 LEADERSHIP

Good leaders lead as much by example as by doing and telling, as these sharp-looking cadet leaders are demonstrating.

FOLLOW THE LEADER You already have leamed that you must first be a good
follower before you can become a good leader. Also, you
Having spent a year as a first-year cadet, you have expe-
know that even high-ranking cadet officers in your unit
rience as a follower. If you received a promotion, you
must take orders from the cadet commandel; and he or she
must have done well. You are now in a position to guide
in tum from the naval science insh'uctors. The)" in tunl,
and help new cadets in the lUut this year.
must follow school and program directives, and so on.

A leader never operates in a vacuum. No matter how high one progresses in a military organization, there is always someone above as well
as below in the chain of command. This NJROTC cadet leader is receiving instructions from his SNSI to be passed along later to his platoon.