‘Where there is smoke, there is fire.’ In this episode, Zac who is a current serving Adjutant in an artillery regiment joins us to talk through what an Adjutant does and what their expectations of new junior officers is. We talk through demi-official letters of introduction, meeting the Adjutant and Commanding Officer for the first time and how high or low the expectations on lieutenants are.

Adjutants are the most senior junior officer in the unit and technically hold field rank. Apart from being one of the Commanding Officers closest advisers, they are responsible for a unit’s incident management, the discipline and standards of all junior officers in the unit and they are often the first point-of-call for a new lieutenant marching into the unit.

Zac explains how officers marching into their first unit can distinguish themselves in their introductions, what your first day in the unit will look like and how an Adjutant can help you navigate your first command. He tells stories of incident management, phone calls in the middle of the night and the rewarding component of guiding the Commanding Officer’s decision making by being the of the junior officers.

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