Just like with any other job, the manager or leader has to carry out different tasks depending on his or her specialization. In retail, you might have low level managers in charge of certain store departments, store managers, district managers and so on. In the Marine Corps, you have Lieutenants, Majors, Colonels and so on. However, there is more about a Marine officer’s duties than meets the eye. A Marine Corps officer is expected to be a Marine through and through.

At your "normal" job, a manager is not really expected to take on more than his or her job description. If a job needs to get done, but there are not enough employees to do it, then more help is sought out or more work is pushed out of each low-level employee.

However, for a Marine Corps officer, the job getting done is just as much the job of every person up and down the chain of command. A Lieutenant in the Marine Corps has to be prepared to act as a private or as a general according to whatever situation arises. The ability to recognize what is needed is what makes a good Marine officer

Every officer also has a certain kind of job depending on the officer’s MOS (Military Occupational Specialty). An officer for a platoon of infantrymen is not expected to run the administrational offices, but if need be, he should be able to step up and take care of things. A Marine officer is above all else a Marine, and so is already the best that the U.S. military has to offer.