Project- Influences of Roman military on modern day riot control

[Bryan]

I have never been a Marine.  My background, as I have told you before, is British Army.

I now teach crowd management for a US based company that has been hired by the USMC to provide what they call 'non-lethal operations' for both MEUs and an MSOB.

So you are instructing young hard charging Marine Infantry NCOs, most of whom are combat veterans, that its their role to not lead their men? Yeah, I'm sure that's going over well. 

So I guess once again we prove that assumptions don't work out. You assumed because you taught riot training tactics to USMC that reflect your beliefs that leaders shouldn't lead from the front, but the reality, what I'm trying to explain to you, is during real combat operations, either in training or real life, leaders do lead from the front. 

You still haven't answered the question I asked numerous times. If the centurion led from the rear, which Roman position was responsible for leading from the front? Or are we to imagine the Romans fought completely opposite of every single other military force in the history of humanity?