In summary, it is important to have rank structure in the military in order for the sailors to know who are manipulating them and who they should be manipulating. It is important for the rank structure to be followed so that whenever the “powers that be” issue an order it is followed in a mindless manner without regard to rationality or any sort of questioning attitude. The superiors must make their subordinates conform until authority usually goes unchallenged, as the subordinates resolve has been usurped through subjective and command-oriented conditioning. For without this type of control, the “powers that be” will lose the power that they feel they so rightly deserve.In summary, it is important to have rank structure in the Navy in order for the sailors to know who are manipulating them and who they should be manipulating. It is important for the rank structure to be followed so that whenever the “powers that be” issue an order it is followed in a mindless manner without regard to rationality or any sort of questioning attitude. The superiors must make their subordinates conform until authority usually goes unchallenged, as the subordinates resolve has been usurped through subjective and command-oriented conditioning. (Patton). For without this type of control, the “powers that be” will lose the power that they feel they so rightly deserveIn summary, it is important to have rank structure in the Navy in order for the sailors to know who are manipulating them and who they should be manipulating. It is important for the rank structure to be followed so that whenever the “powers that be” issue an order it is followed in a mindless manner without regard to rationality or any sort of questioning attitude. The superiors must make their subordinates conform until authority usually goes unchallenged, as the subordinates resolve has been usurped through subjective and command-oriented conditioning. (Patton). For without this type of control, the “powers that be” will...