I’m just happy that modern generals have moved passed such useless frippery like batons.
Now they all use laser markers.
No, sir, they haven’t. You still have to look out for the jackass with a swagger stick, typically a two foot long oak dowel with a .30 cartridge on one end and a copper clad .30 bullet on the other. A genuine poking stick. Also a bang the back of your helmet stick. Hate those things.
I think Patton carried one, didn’t he?
Was a riding crop, wasn’t it?
And sailor, I don’t think a Priest’s Shepard’s Crook, can be considered a baton, though it serves a similar purpose.
Eh, riding crop, poking stick, whatever.
Frederick Henry loved to play pool and carried his lucky cue stick everyone he went.
Give me five minutes and you can confirm this on wikipedia.
Bishop’s crook, not a priest. The crook is one of the emblems of a bishop.