What It Means to Be an Nco

Integrity is one of the Army’s core values and one of the cornerstones of the army. The cornerstones of the army are important because they are the very fundamentals that we all must live to uphold. We must always embody and live up to the core beliefs and fundamentals of the army. We must try every day to respect and uphold the army core values and beliefs. These core beliefs are what all the rest of the army beliefs and discipline is built upon in the founding of the army. If we live up to the core beliefs of the army, we are honoring all who have served before. We also honor all those who have yet to serve by leaving the service better than we came to it. We are also honoring all those who have paid the ultimate price for their country. If, we cannot live to uphold the very fundamentals and the very cornerstones of the army way of life then we are letting our peers, subordinates, and senior leaders down. Not only are we letting our peers, subordinates, and senior leaders down but we are letting down all those who have come before and all those yet to come into the service. Not only are we letting our army down we are also letting down all the people who we defend, protect, help and support around the world. By the lack of integrity, we cause our fellow soldiers, leaders, and their families’ trouble as well. We also lose the trust of our peers, and we ostracize our self into becoming the outcast of

relate to all parts of the unit to get a job done. This often means

Officers are taught to lead by example which means learning from the officers who came before them. As a leader in the army, a solider is constantly watched and must uphold the army core values at all times. Setting a good example for the young, non commissioned officers (NCOs) in the battalion is vital to the battalions cohesion and morale. In order to lead by example an officer is taught different leadership styles to incorporate in the field For instance, participating leadership style is especially appropriate when there is time receive input, information, and recommendations of your subordinates. The primary goal of the army is to develop the leaders of tomorrow. Leadership can always be improved on throughout life.

Integrity is being fair and not taking sides when someone asks for my opinion. Having the ability to truly be honest and say what is right instead of trying to placate the truth. Integrity is affording, anyone the opportunity to correct their issues, instead of continually endeavoring to find fault in them. Integrity is after returning home from a six month deployment saying NO I won’t go on leave during the time that the command is scheduled to go to Vulcanex. The integrity to go and support my command and fellow sailors so that they are not overly stressed and over worked for an exercise, that I may have the option not to

The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the readers with an ethical issue with NCOERs that I came across while serving as a First Sergeant. I was appalled to learn that leaders and raters are writing inaccurate and irrelevant NCOERs and making them less effective, because NCOs are not applying themselves. NCOs expect to be evaluated fairly, objectively, and want to be receiving an NCOER that will allow them to excel for further promotion and assignments. An NCO wants to have the faith that their rater is competent enough to give them a proper rating, good or bad, on their

As a NCO, you will have all types of challenges in your career. Part of your leadership responsi-bility is to ensure soldiers understand how ethics apply in everyday military operations. Knowing the right and wrong tied to your feelings always motivates enlisted in their everyday adventures. Being the norm of society is something we all strive to do, morally leaders have the duty to teach ethical situations to soldiers. The motivating factor is teaching the standards of behavior. In the past ten years, we have seen to many ethical behavior issues with senior officers and enlisted. Recruiters have slept with recruits prior to them joining the military, drill sergeants having sexual relations with recruits in basic training, senior

That is something when I got to my first unit I realized was not always the case. My experience with bad leadership helped me build more on my own leadership skills. My first platoon sergeant was not only a poor NCO, he was really just a bad person all around. As a leader he would drag his soldiers through the mud and volunteer them for every extra duty or detail that came up and then take credit for the work himself rather than acknowledge the hard work being put in by the lower enlisted. He would also keep the platoon at work until he was finished with his work, the rest of the unit would be gone at 1600 on a recovery week, our platoon would be at work until 1800 just sitting around for over 2 hours waiting to be released.

The United States Marine Corps has fourteen leadership traits. One of those traits is ‘Integrity.’ I look at integrity as ‘doing the right thing when no one is watching.’ However, the Oxford Dictionary defines integrity as, “The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. The state of being whole and undivided. The state of being whole and undivided. Internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data.” Integrity is vital to any leader because the people that they are leading is depending on them to lead them in the right direction. “Most ministers want to be persons of integrity, persons whose professional lives uphold the highest ethical ideals,” state Trull and Carter. Integrity is the glue that keeps all the other parts of leadership intact.

NCOs are at constant odds with Soldiers who fail to live the Army as a profession. Many Soldiers are motivated by monetary, educational, or experiential gain. They do not prioritize organizational policy or doctrine. As a leader, Sun Tzu’s first fundamental factor reflects the Army’s doctrinal belief that effective leadership relies on “mutual trust and shared understanding and purpose” (HQDA, 2013, p. 2-2). Having organizational harmony undoubtedly encourages unit and team cohesion and builds trust. This resulting trust instills confidence in a Soldier’s perceived purpose and increases their morale.

The Human Resources (HR) NCO/ Adjutant has been the backbone of the army for well over 100 years. Many may not know, but without the Adjutant, a lot of things would fall apart. Professionals in the Army must have many different attributes and some great leadership skills and qualities in order to call themselves a professional. As leaders, we must embrace all challenges of balancing more than one responsibility within our profession in order to accomplish the mission. As an HR NCO in the United States Army, we must consider the culture of the Corps and the Army and the profession as an important part of the mission accomplishment. HR NCO’s are the ones

Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) learned that their leadership abilities relied on getting Soldiers across enemy roadways alive. There were Family issues and problems, complicated by being overseas. Soldiers had a ready purpose. Soldiers knew the enemy. Soldiers and leaders accepted and thrived because of the danger.

These are professionals who thrive in chaos, adapt, and win in a complex world. NCOs develops as leaders over time through deliberate progressive and sequential process incorporating training, education, and experience across the learning domain throughout the soldier’s life cycle. When I went to school, I was taught with a hard book and sat in a classroom, listening to lectures and taking test with a number two pencil. It was all about memorization of words on a page. As part of the millennial generation, they learned with laptop which was way more important than memorizing facts in a textbook. In a way the Army is not designing its educational training for the millennial but more towards the new generation. Updating and revitalizing the way the Army trains its NCO so it’s relevant to the way they learn. The Army of the future will require mental agility, teamwork, and resilience from all soldiers to meet the challenges of a world that grows more complex every day. By shifting the culture of training and education of NCOs, it supports their success in the challenging environment. NCOs is a holistic look at how the Army develops todays NCO, talent management them, and reinforce their roles as stewards of their profession. New path to promotion is part of the army’s select, train, educate, and promote known as the S.T.E.P program. What S.T.E.P promotes is the progression of your career, so in order to advance you have to meet requirements the Army laid out for you. You would have to be selected on your profession of your potential and character. The organization train NCOs in the core competencies and the institutional Army when they give the NCOs the formal education will certify them which lead to their promotion. When it comes to advancing in there career they also have the

The NCO Creed is a great model to follow. Some just recite the NCO Creed when prompt to at the beginning of class in NCOES. Some have the NCO Creed hanging on their wall or on the desk as a gift. I know the NCO Creed and conform my leadership skills by the NCO Creed. Maintaining professionalism, knowing my soldiers and communication is important.

As an NCO, in first stages of establishing yourself to your leaders and subordinate you have to be open minded. A rule that can be a doctrine to this could be, Golden Rule simply states that all of us are to treat other people as we would wish other people to treat us in return (Robinson, 1995). Being an open-minded NCO has to understand that they have to be able to instill the will into their Marines the changes the corps might have. All things considered being open minded is not just all that is required of an NCO to integrate discipline and compassionate. Being aware of when discipline or compassionate is warranted is just as important and should be considered.

It's also the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Integrity is important because it takes out the easy short term solutions and replaces them with meaningful long term solutions that not only benefit you but others around you. This is an important quality of a cadet because it keeps the truth as your basis for any encounter you have. In a world where the media exposes the faults we make in such a negative light, it is important to have a mindset that keeps sound principles as a top priority. We live in a society where the individual represents the institution they come from every time they do something, this means every fault that is made by a cadet or an officer is represents the Army, whether true or