chain of command
Noun
Meaning
chain of command (plural chains of command)
(military) The command hierarchy or structure in which one rank obeys the one above it, which obeys the one above it, and so forth.
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Access to the Naval Station is very limited and must be preapproved through the appropriate local chain of command with Commander Naval Base GTMO as the final approval.
Although he could not get any acknowledgement of this from the chain of command, Alexander convinced medical staffs to treat patients for mustard exposure and saved many lives as a result.
Australian Defence Association executive director Neil James said officers higher up the command chain may have been morally responsible for the failures, but the report was "very persuasive on how they were able to fool the chain of command".
Believing that taking his idea up through the chain of command was unlikely to work, Stirling decided to go straight to the top.
Discovery ignores its own chain of command — and all logical sense — in making Ensign Sylvia Tilly its new first officer in "Unification III."
He then takes that data and incorporates it into daily reports which feed up through the chain of command to state leadership, keeping them abreast of existing stock and deliveries of PPE supplies.