Good Order And Accountability

The United States Army customs and courtesies are the basic rules that allow for order, and keeps chaos from taking over and destroying the very fabric that makes the army effective in its mission to protect the people of the United States. They promote the discipline for soldiers to carry out the orders that their superiors put out, and shows respect to the person that has earned his rank and displayed the leadership qualities to be able to command. The soldiers that display these customs and courtesies to their superiors will in return be treated with dignity and respect.

The term, honor, transcends all languages including classical Latin and modern English with its spelling and basic definition. Honor is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as high respect or esteem. The concept of honor dates back to the peaceful samurai of feudal Japan and the chivalrous knights of medieval Europe. A samurai or a knight would either honor or dishonor himself and his family based on his actions in battle. Their motivation to be honorable focused more on the individual and their family and less on their kingdom. Even though the branches of the United States military each have their own code of honor, all branches believe that honor is about doing the right thing personally and professionally in a manner so as not to disrespect

Also you want to use this duty in your personal life. It shows people that youre very dependable. This is not only a quality we use as soldiers, but as civilans as well. Being late is not only unacceptable in the army, but it is unacceptable anywhere. This should be the easiest task of being a soldier. The army has several ways to correct this issue if it is a continuous problem. You can recieve a negative counseling statement, Article-15 or even a Court Martial and discharged from military service. Plus, with an Article-15 you

Refusing to follow an order or not following it precisely indicates a soldier's unwillingness to compromise for the general good of the military and presents one's actions to be more self-centered and selfishly motivated than should be for a successful soldier. An individual who does not understand the gravity of orders in the military is one who can quickly become a hindrance to others' ability to execute tasks smoothly and quickly regardless of any persona factors and emotional sate during any given day. This is of course

Accountability: Be where you need to be, when you need to be there. In all events, you need to keep me aware of your whereabouts at all times. You must be present at least 10 minutes before the scheduled formation or planned activity. In the event that you are going to be late, you need to contact me so that I will be aware of the situation. If you have multiple incidents of tardiness it will result in negative counseling and corrective training.

The importance of being on time shows your reliability. If you show competence and responsibility when you’re entrusted with little, then you will exhibit to you superiors that you can likely to be entrusted with more. While it is absolutely essential to be reliable in the military, consistently showing that reliability every day by being on time, also helps exhibit your fitness for higher ranks and for more responsibility. Being reliable not only demonstrates you have what it takes, but also gives out a good example of being a reliable soldier, and person over all. Out of all things in the military, accountability is arguably one of the most important value a person can have. By always showing up on time you demonstrate that you accept your responsibilities and are willing to hold yourself to task for completion.

My actions affected me a lot it went from being late to getting a negative counselling and having to do a 1000 word RBI taking away from my time. It not only made me look bad but it showed that I can’t do a simply task and now must earn that trust and respect back. It just puts more on me to do when I could have avoided everything by simply waking up to my alarm and showing up for shift. It also was unacceptable to JBLM because it could have caused the gate to open late making military personnel and civilians to run late and cause them to fall behind on time causing a big chain reaction. It affects my team leader by making it look like he's not doing his job because he is held accounted for me and my absence as an NCO which then leads up to the Squad Leader and so on causing it to affect the unit. It also take away from the chain of commands free time, making them waste their own time that can be spent with their families. Making my actions a big deal. It affects the PMO by them having to wait on me them not knowing if I’m gonna show up or not and if they need to call for someone to cover it cause stress and which is critical to the mission. It just waste their time. It affects the MPs by making them cover a part of the shift and makes things a little hectic. So my actions do add up to a lot of negative outcomes all from being late. So being on time is the way to go you won't have to worry about getting into

Honor means that the person has a high self esteem or high respect. It means that the person will endure anything if they put their mind to it. Nothing phases that person. It also means that they are better than some other people. They do what

Honor can be used to describe a person in either a hopeful or negative standpoint, take if they are very honorable that means trustworthy and reliable. If a person has a low sense of honor, however, the opposite is true. Honor is the way that people perceive it and the actions of others make them to be seen as honorable, as “people trust the information you are providing and the actions you are taking” (Gibson). Having trust as a bond from others lasts lifetimes, just getting there is the hard part. It defines who someone is, acting like a guiding light for individual growth

Good order and discipline is vital for a successful military. General George Patton was a strong disciplinarian who was equally as adamant about preparedness. He told his commanders if they did not enforce and maintain perfect discipline, they were potential murderers (McBride). He went on to say… “That is a blunt way of putting it, but war is blunt, and war is what we must all prepare for” (McBride). It is too late to prepare for war once the war has already begun. Good order and discipline prepares soldiers for war; it teaches responsibility for being accountable for what they do or fail to do and it assists soldiers in making them accountable for their personal conduct as well.

A soldier is always expected to be on time, being late can be problematic not only for him but also for his brothers in arms. The reason army lays such great importance to punctuality is because when the soldier has to enter the real life battlefield then there is no relaxation for laziness. Even a minute late to a specific rally point can be the difference between life and death. Consider a situation where a soldier has to provide supporting fire to cover for his friend, if the soldier does to not strictly obey time then there is a good chance that his friend would be in life threatening trouble.

Being Punctual shows your chain of command that you are dependable. they can count on you to follow orders and be where you are supposed to be at the right place at the right time. Doing this lead to them trusting you with a little more responsibility as time goes on. being late however shows them that you can not be relied on to do anything if you cant even be somewhere on time. being on time is the easiest thing to do in the military andif you cant even do that how is your chain of command supposed to trust you with anything else? Being punctual also shows your chain of command that you have the discipline to be somewhere when you are supposed to. Having the discipline to follow orders shows them as you spend more time in the military that just maybe your ready for that next promotion or to be put in to go to the board so you can become an NCO yourself. On the other hand not being punctual shows them that you have no discipline, which makes them have to limit the things you are allowed to do even when your off duty for the day because if they cant trust you to be

An example is when a soldier is talking bad about an NCO and another soldier sticks up for the NCO not only because they can get into trouble for talking like that, but because it is the right thing to do. It helps build a unit and unites them and builds trust. Missing PT on Wednesday was a prime example of disloyalty. If I was punctual and made sure the alarm was set the night before, I wouldn’t have let the team down. It showed the unit that I couldn’t be trusted with the smallest of tasks, such as being on time. Had I been more disciplines, I would have been more aware of the fact that the alarm was not set.

Selfless Service: it takes selflessness, and discipline, to be where you need to be early, much less on time. By not taking the easy road and getting the extra bit of sleep or chow time, the soldier is demonstrating, granted on a small scale, selfless service. A soldier being selfish and repetitively failing to show up on time to a formation does NOT display the Army value of Selfless Service.

Leadership, accountability, efficiency, morale, and a sense of order all depend upon your chain of command. Why it is important to follow proper instruction procedures in the military is for many reasons. As military personnel, it is our responsibility to not only follow instruction/orders, but to execute the command. Not following orders can result into consequences not only for the personnel whom committed not following instructions, but also it can put others at risk too. Like your NCO in charge of you, to your Team Leader, to your Platoon Sergeant, to your 1st Sergeant, to your Company Commander, to your Brigade Commander, and so on. Not only can your NCO in charge of you, your Team Leader, your Platoon Sergeant, your 1st Sergeant, your Company Commander, and your Brigade Commander could all get into trouble for your actions of not following direct instructions/orders. But some may lose rank in the process including the personnel whom didn’t follow the specific instructions/orders giving by a personnel higher rank than those individual personnel. Also when you are down range deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, and other combat places we have our units fighting the war at, not only can a personnel lose rank but in fact not following directions/orders you could get a personnel fighting alongside of you in the war killed in combat but you as well. Try to explain to a spouse, or a