Posted on Jul 21, 2016
SSG Derrick L. Lewis MBA, C-HRM
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Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage.
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CPT Quartermaster Officer
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Integrity. I hate it when people are dishonest. You my not want to hear the truth, but the sooner you do , the sooner you can deal with the actual reality of a situation.
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PO2 Nathan Meyer
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Integrity. Because some days I don't really want to get up in the morning, but I have too much integrity to just call in and say I am sick.

But, if you have integrity you have every other value. Respect your leadership enough to be honest and own your mistakes. Selfless service because you still showed up. Personal courage to own that counseling statement. And honor, because all of that is the honorable thing to do.
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SFC Richard Giles
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Me personally, I think you can't have one without the others they all tie into each other. You may have 1 or 2 or maybe more that you really identify with or think is more important but at the end of the day for me you can't have 1 without the others. They are all important.
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PO1 Cryptologic Technician (Technical)
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I may not be Army but I was an Army Wife. I think all the Army Core Values mean a lot to everyone, including the Soldier. You can't have one without the other.
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CSM Bn Ssa
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For me its Loyalty. Units have their ups and downs. The past few years I've seen NCO's jump ship and abandon their Soldiers because they were asked to do a little work on their personal time when we lacked full time staff. If I belong to a Unit I am there until I feel I can leave it better then when I got there. Providing stable leadership to junior enlisted is the key to grooming future leaders. If they have a constant revolving door leadership wise it hurts morale and their overall progression.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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I'm for respect, honor, and integrity, without those forget about the rest. People look at the first three, and see if your following them.
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SPC Walt Mandeville
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Respect for our flag and everything that it represents. Freedom isn't free.
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LTC Retired
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All of the values can be determined subjectively. Except, one is this easiest to maintain or disregard: RESPECT.
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SSG Derrick L. Lewis MBA, C-HRM
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Thanks for sharing. I owe you an up vote.
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1SG Michael Farrell
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I haven't looked at a NCOER for 19 years, but there used to be some NCO buzzwords about courage, candor, committment, and competence; some commands seemed to add compassion to the list. I always find these lists of traits and characteristics less helpful than examples and we can look for the well-spring, the one from which the others flow. I tend to think that they all hang together to describe the American soldier, but for the moment, let's consider Selfless Service. No one who's sane joins and stays in the Army because it's a great job. We do it because we fit in it, and we strive to fit better and better because that's what makes it a great experience. As a senior leader, try this one out as I did: talking to a couple of platoon leaders as they were hanging around my office (Top always had the best coffee), one of them asked me why I enlisted, stayed an NCO and seemed to be content. I smiled over the rim of my coffee cup and said, "For the money, obviously..." Shock, horror, dismay and the realization that the old bastard had gotten them again.
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SPC Training Room Nco
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Honor. Short answer: without Honor, you cannot have or uphold any of the others.
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