In a perfect world I would pick seven, six private soldiers and a lance corporal in the battalion that I know, that I have commanded before on operations and I know inside out, jocks that I know can do a job, but we don't get that luxury, we get who we are given.
Moreover, the "Great Commission" of Jesus declares: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age" (Matthew 28 19 20; compare Mark 16:15, Luke 24:47, John 20 21 22, and Acts 1 8).
Although there is no actual account of the institution of baptism by Jesus, the Gospel According to Matthew portrays the risen Christ issuing the "Great Commission" to his followers: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you" (Matthew 28 19 20).
I have commanded a dreadnought, have commanded the Destroyer Force Pacific Fleet and the Fourth Division, Battle Fleet".16 Unsaid in this brief formal letter was the fact that he would have to be given a vice admiral or admiral billet.
Whilst in India he wrote of his regiment "I have commanded them for nearly ten years during which I have scarcely been away from them and I have always found them to be the quietest and best behaved body of men in the army".
In Matthew 28 19-20, Jesus instructed his disciples, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
I had command of my pitches".
"I feel like I had command of my pitches," Nova said in a whisper.
I had command of a precise and specialized vocabulary that I could summon more or less at will.
