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Task: Learn, discuss the Army Values

Conditions: Classroom

Standards: Apply Army Values to all situations.

The Seven Army Core Values

Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integrity Personal Courage

Army Skills

“Throughout history, soldiers and their leaders have always been

expected to know the profession of arms and be skillful at it.”

John O. Marsh Jr.,Former Secretary of the Army, 1981-1989

A Foundation of Character

“Without character - particularly in the military profession - failure in peace, disaster in war, or, at best, mediocrity in both will result.”

General Matthew B. Ridgway

Use Army Core Values to Focus Your Skills

“In peacetime, we practice tactics, strategy, and weapons firing. We must do the same

with our values.”

General Donn A. Starry

Army Core Values Form a System

Our Army values form a system of belief and behavior of what is proper conduct for a soldier of the US Army.

Remember the Army Values L-D-R-S-H-I-P

Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other soldiers.

Loyalty:

Duty:

Respect:

Selfless Service:

Honor:

Integrity:

Personal Courage:

Treat people as they should be treated.

Put the welfare of the Nation, the Army, and your subordinates before your own.

Live up to all the Army Values

Do what’s right, legally and morally.

Face fear, danger, or adversity both

physical or moral.

Fulfill your obligations.

Values Defined

The social principles, goals, or standards held or accepted by an individual, class, or society.

The abstract concepts of what is right, worthwhile, or desirable; principles or standards.

Values come from….. Mass media

Religion

Family

Community programs

Experiences (major source)

Our behavior is based on our values, while our priorities reflect our values and thus shapeour behavior.

Loyalty

Army loyalty entails the correct priority of soldiers' obligations and commitments to the Constitution, the Army, the unit, other soldiers, family, friends, and, finally, yourselves.

Loyalty demands commitment.

Duty Army duty entails fulfilling

professional, legal, and moral obligations.

Duty means accomplishing all your assigned tasks to the best of your ability.

Duty requires a willingness to accept full responsibility for the actions of one’s self, and those of one’s subordinates.

Respect

Army respect means to promote dignity, consideration of others, fairness, and equal opportunity. It includes a sensitivity to and regard for the feelings and needs of others and an awareness of the effect of a person's behavior on them.

Respect also involves the idea of treating people justly.

Selfless Service Army selfless service signifies

action based on proper priorities. It places service above self. The welfare of the nation and the accomplishment of the mission come ahead of the personal safety of the individual or the unit.

Selfless service requires you to give credit where credit is due, never unjustly taking credit for something you did not do.

Honor Army honor demands adherence to

a public moral code, not protection of a reputation. Honor is a moral virtue--a state of being or a state of character that people possess by upholding the values that make up the Army's public moral code.

Honor depends upon the exemplary display of integrity, courage, loyalty, respect, selfless service, and duty.

Integrity Army integrity means possessing

high personal moral standards and being honest in word and deed.

It involves the consistent adherence of action to one's personal moral beliefs.

The goal over time is for your private moral code of integrity to converge with the publicly declared code of honor for the Army.

Personal Courage Army personal courage manifests

physical and moral bravery. It depicts the military virtue that enables us to face fear, danger, or adversity no matter what the situation is, whether it be physical or moral.

Personal courage is the strength to do what is right, to adhere to a higher standard of personal conduct, to lead by example, and to make tough decisions under stress and pressure.

Continue the Values Journey

Continue to learn about the Army values.

Share what you believe about the Army values with others.

Live the Army values in all parts of your life.

Story 1: Prisoners in the Desert

After the battle of Desert Storm in 1991, an Army platoon sergeant told the following story, “The morning of the last day of the war, we had a T-55 tank in front of us and we were getting ready to [TOW] him. We had the TOW up and we were tracking him and my wing man saw him just stop and a head pop up out of it. And Neil started calling me saying, ‘Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, I think they are getting off the tank.’ And they did. Three of them jumped off the tank and ran around a sand dune.


I told my wing man, ‘I’ll cover the tank, you go on down and check around the back side and see what’s down there.’ He went down there and found about 150 POWs down there, so the only way we could handle that many was just to line them up and run them through . . . a little gauntlet, and we had to check them for weapons and stuff and we lined them up and called for the POW handlers to pick them up. It was just amazing.


We had to blow the tank up. My instructions were to destroy the tank, so I told them to go ahead and move it around the back side of the berm a little bit to safeguard us, so we wouldn’t catch any shrapnel or ammunition coming off. When the tank blew up, these guys started yelling and screaming at my soldiers, “Don’t shoot us, don’t shoot us,” and one of my soldiers said, “Hey, we’re from America. We don’t shoot our prisoners.” That sort of stuck with me.

Question:

What does this story tell us about the values of the US Army as compared to the expectations of the enemy?

Answers:

In this story, it was clear in the US soldier’s mind that shooting prisoners was simply not something that American soldiers did. The fact that this prohibition had become such a part of his thinking that it did not pose a question is significant; it was a deeply entrenched idea that contributed to his good character, the character of the Army, and the nation. Our behavior is a reflection of our character. The soldier had a choice: he could have fired upon the enemy soldiers. However, he made the right decision because the right principles had been so deeply ingrained in him that they were part of his naturepart of his values.

Story 2: Stuart S. Stryker

PFC Stuart S. Stryker was assigned to Company E, of the 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division. On 24 March 1945 he was a platoon runner when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany, after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machine guns, and four field pieces.


One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when PFC Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him.


Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective, the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy's attention that the company was able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, and freeing three members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there.


The fearlessness and unhesitating self-sacrifice of PFC Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.

PFC Stryker was born and entered service at Portland, Oregon. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Question:

What Army core values did PFC Stryker demonstrate?

Answers:

Duty, by fulfilling his obligations without direction.

Personal courage for his action in the face of danger.

Loyalty, by urging his comrades to continue the fight.

Honor, by living up to all the Army values.

Story 3: Brigadier General McAuliffe in Bastogne

During World War II, in December of 1944, the 101st was ordered into Bastogne, an important city because of its location and its road and rail networks. The division met tough resistance and was soon encircled. The German army tried several times to break through the defenses of the 101st, but the division held its ground. The one standing order that BG McAuliffe, the acting division commander, had received was "Hold Bastogne."


The German army, which greatly outnumbered the American division, issued an ultimatum for the 101st to surrender. BG McAuliffe considered the competence and character of the division, and decided that they would not surrender. He responded in a famous short message by telling the Germans “Nuts.”


This response to the enemy became a big morale booster to the besieged US division, and the 101st continued to resist—despite bad weather, many casualties, and lack of supplies. They had confidence in themselves and the rest of the US Army behind them. Several days later, the 4th Armored Division secured a small corridor to Bastogne, and soon the VIII Corps relieved the 101st in place. This holding action prevented the German Army from employing their assets elsewhere.

Question:

What values were demonstrated here?

Answers:

Duty, by the 101st refusing the ultimatum.

Selfless service, by putting their duty above their own welfare, knowing it would be hard to hold out against the larger German Army.

Personal courage and integrity, by facing the mortal danger of superior force, and doing what was right.

Honor, by living their values.

Loyalty and duty, by the 4th Armored and VIII Corps relieving the 101st

Story 4: Operation Assured Response

Liberia, a small country on the west coast of Africa, was settled in part by freed American slaves. Monrovia, its capital and principal port, was named after US President James Monroe. In 1847 it established a government modeled on that of the United States, and it has had close relations with the US ever since.


The country was mostly peaceful until the 1980 assassination of its President in a military coup, after which it was ruled, brutally, for ten years. A vicious civil war began in 1989 when a group of rebels seeking democracy invaded the country. Although the tyrannical government was overthrown in 1990, the rebellion degenerated into six years of mostly tribal warfare and massacres.


In April of 1996, intense fighting between opposing factions closed in around Monrovia. On April 9, President Clinton ordered US military forces to Monrovia to reinforce the Marines protecting the embassy, and to evacuate American citizens and other country civilians who had taken refuge in the US Embassy. That same day, a small relief force of Army Special Forces and Navy SEALS deployed to Monrovia, and “Operation Assured Response” began.


The first team of rescuers arrived at the embassy compound in two MH-53 helicopters. Troops reinforced the Marine guard, and the first helicopters soon took off from the embassy with 24 adults and 2 children on board for the two-hour, 235-mile flight to Freetown, the capital of neighboring Sierra Leone.


Following soon after the initial relief force, additional units departed bases in Europe and the US bound for Liberia. In Monrovia a central evacuee assembly collection point was secured from which the evacuees from across the city were moved to landing areas where helicopters carried them to safety. Many of the evacuations were made at night to take advantage of the cover of darkness.


Deployed Army units included elements of 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Boeblingen, Germany; Company C, 1st Bn., 508th Airborne Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy; and a platoon from 3rd Bn., 160th Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga. During the 10-day action, US forces safely evacuated more than 2,200 people from 73 countries, including 540 Americans.


On July 19, 1997, Liberia's seven-year war was finally ended through an election that swept former faction leader Charles Taylor and his party, the National Patriotic Party (NPP), into power with 75 percent of the vote.

In this example of joint US operations the military was ready for anything. Although the soldiers never entered combat and there was not a single reported injury, the operation itself demonstrates many of the Army’s and the country’s values.

Question:

What Army core values were demonstrated in this brief history of the 1996 evacuation of Liberia?

Answers:

Loyalty was demonstrated to the citizens of the US in Liberia by helping them escape from the conflict.

Respect was shown to the citizens of friendly countries in helping them escape from the conflict.

Duty was demonstrated by the Army units and the units of other services who fulfilled their obligations in rapid response, and effective and safe completion of the evacuation.

Selfless service was demonstrated by soldiers working during the night as well as during the day, for day after day.

Cont..

Answers:

Integrity was demonstrated by doing what was legally right—protecting US citizens, but also what was morally right—helping those of other countries.

Personal courage was shown by the soldiers who deployed with no advance notice of where they were going or what they would have to do. The soldiers in Monrovia showed personal courage by entering unknown situations around the city despite the armed rebel factions trying to control the city.

Honor was demonstrated by the individual soldiers and the Army as a whole living up to all the Army values.

Summary

The Army core values go hand in hand with Army combat skills.

The Army core values all work together, and no value can be ignored in favor of another.

The Army core values must be practiced as a part of the way we live as US Army soldiers.

Closing Quote

“There are only two forces in the world,The sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”

Napoleon (1769-1821)

SummaryLoyalty

DutyRespect

Selfless ServiceHonor

IntegrityPersonal Courage

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