I believe the best way to start this paper is to first discuss what accountability really is, and then to go into how the different types of accountability should affect us in the Marine Corps. The two primary types of accountability are administrative and moral, good examples of both can be found in one scenario. Marine A is forward deployed, and is supposed to relieve Marine B who is pulling security for a twelve hour shift. Marine A is not only administratively accountable for the shift change because it was a lawful order, but he is also morally accountable for it, because he knows that leaving Marine B on shift for longer than 12 hours could raise the chances of him falling asleep, endangering not only Marine B, but the rest of the
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As for moral accountability, in the “36th Commandant’s Planning Guidance” on the very first page General Dunford lists these three principles: Marines do what is right for the Nation, Marines keep their honor clean, and Marines take care of their own. He then goes on to say that these principles “define our identity as Marines, and as a Marine Corps. They are provided here as a reminder of who we are and what we do.” Administrative accountability is most simply put as, “follow orders A, B, and C because you are told to, if you do not, you will be held accountable.” There isn’t any room for interpretation or deviance; you have to follow the order to the letter. Day to day life in the Marine Corps is full of administrative accountability, especially for a junior Marine. From signing out to leave base, to having a fresh shave every day, our lives as Marines are defined by accountability. Before I joined the Marine Corps, I worked in a grocery store as a dairy/frozen department manager, which taught me a few lessons about accountability. When I was the dairy/frozen department manager there were certain tasks that I was accountable for, such as making sure all of the deliveries that came in had everything that was needed. I could either do it …show more content…
You’re not held accountable to your boss, or an organization, but to your own moral code, your system of belief, and yourself. Moral accountability is all about making ethically based decisions. I left working at the grocery store for a job offer with family owned landscaping company to work snow removal, the job was simple enough, me and two other workers could get called in at any time to go get in a company truck, drive to different stores we were assigned, and shovel the sidewalks, and the walkways leading up to the store. We were paid hourly, and the two men I worked with I’d been close friends with since grade school, so it would have been very easy to just go to a stop and take a nap in the truck, or do our work very slowly, to ensure a big paycheck; but we didn’t, not only because it was against the rules, but because of our moral compasses. Working slow or not working at all on shift was effectively stealing, and we couldn’t do it, even though there was no way for us to get in trouble for it, we held ourselves accountable for our own
As for moral accountability, in the “36th Commandant’s Planning Guidance” on the very first page General Dunford lists these three principles: Marines do what is right for the Nation, Marines keep their honor clean, and Marines take care of their own. He then goes on to say that these principles “define our identity as Marines, and as a Marine Corps. They are provided here as a reminder of who we are and what we do.” Administrative accountability is most simply put as, “follow orders A, B, and C because you are told to, if you do not, you will be held accountable.” There isn’t any room for interpretation or deviance; you have to follow the order to the letter. Day to day life in the Marine Corps is full of administrative accountability, especially for a junior Marine. From signing out to leave base, to having a fresh shave every day, our lives as Marines are defined by accountability. Before I joined the Marine Corps, I worked in a grocery store as a dairy/frozen department manager, which taught me a few lessons about accountability. When I was the dairy/frozen department manager there were certain tasks that I was accountable for, such as making sure all of the deliveries that came in had everything that was needed. I could either do it …show more content…
You’re not held accountable to your boss, or an organization, but to your own moral code, your system of belief, and yourself. Moral accountability is all about making ethically based decisions. I left working at the grocery store for a job offer with family owned landscaping company to work snow removal, the job was simple enough, me and two other workers could get called in at any time to go get in a company truck, drive to different stores we were assigned, and shovel the sidewalks, and the walkways leading up to the store. We were paid hourly, and the two men I worked with I’d been close friends with since grade school, so it would have been very easy to just go to a stop and take a nap in the truck, or do our work very slowly, to ensure a big paycheck; but we didn’t, not only because it was against the rules, but because of our moral compasses. Working slow or not working at all on shift was effectively stealing, and we couldn’t do it, even though there was no way for us to get in trouble for it, we held ourselves accountable for our own