Primum non nocere

Being a military officer shoulders a responsibility like no other. You are equal parts leader and manager, bearing a burden that requires you to always be your best. It is a position of great honor, requiring that you not only live your service’s core values; you must also personify them for your seniors and subordinates because compromising these values is not an option. It will be my responsibility to make the most of my team’s unique talents, as I will have to be able to bring out the best in…

Extracurricular activities like the FFA and 4-H Organizations, help students, like me, gain experience in a variety of areas that will enhance our future. Through participation in these organizations, I have learned cooperation, teamwork and time management. By serving as an officer, I have also gained responsibility, as well as problem solving and communication skills. FFA has opened doors to new leadership roles at both a local and multi-county level. I have been given the opportunity to serve…

peace and a provider for the defense of the United States and its allies, professional challenges frequently erupt for the US Army. Certain professional challenges for the US Army include the enforcement of honor violations, integrity issues, and non-compliance to a given standards. Therefore, when a breach of a professional core object occurs, the US Army is…

One hundred and fifty-nine Joint Task Force Troopers took part in a once in a lifetime opportunity of earning the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, June 2 through June 5. The GAFPB is a foreign award demonstrating the requirements a German Soldier must be proficient at in their armed forces. “This is a rare opportunity for a Soldier to experience in their career,” said U.S. Army Master Sgt. Lawrence Mawhinney, the noncommissioned…

You may be asking what the Civil Air Patrol is. The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered, federally supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). CAP is a volunteer organization with an aviation-minded membership that includes people from all backgrounds, lifestyles, and occupations. It performs three congressionally assigned key missions: emergency services, which includes search and rescue (by air and…

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office," -Dwight D. Eisenhower. Qualities help people define who they are and help a person make decisions in life, a perfect cadet or future officer for the United States Military Academy would have unquestionable integrity as Eisenhower stated, also these other qualities: discipline, respect, ambition,…

Free the Children – Charity When looking at organizations in relation to social economy “Free the Children” can be recognizes as an international charity. Free the children’s main projects involve adopting a village (in Africa, Asia, and Latin America) where their main focus is on children and education. This organization was founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger after reading though Toronto Star newspaper and coming across an article about the murder of…

There is a clear issue with the Army’s promotion system that I will discuss in this forum. I will address my upbringing in the military and what I have seen over my 19-year career. Without a well-defined chain of command, the Army would not be the well-oiled machine that it is today. The organizational structure, which is “the way in which job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated” as defined in (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p. 519) is very well known and reiterated down to the lowest…

This should be the title of your essay The 7th Civil Support Command, General 1 (G1) section is comprised of full time Active Guard Reserve (AGR) Soldiers, civilians and part time AGR Soldiers like myself. The AGR Soldiers come to Battle Assemble or Assembly, (BA) once a month. I noticed on my first day in the office that the full time AGR staff was doing the majority of the work to complete the mission. The part time AGR Soldiers were sitting back and observing the full time staff. I…

GENCO and Home Depot have teamed up to develop what they call the Home Depot Liquidations Do-It-Yourself Profit. Any return a consumer sends back to Home Depot ends up in the GENCO liquidation center where they prepare up to 500 pallets a day for resale at a discount price on GENCO Marketplace (GENCOMarketplace GMP, 2013). Nick Stoner, GENCO Marketplace Store Manager, says that most returns they process in the liquidation center are fit to be resold at nearly perfect shape, and that only a small…