Posted on Jul 21, 2016
Which Army value means the most you? Why?
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Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage.
Values
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Leadership
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Confidence and self-awareness. My service taught me the extent of my limits, most people today have no idea how to push beyond their comfort zone and explore their limits.
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LEADERSHIP: Can't buy it at Walmart, Can only read about it in a book, Hard to duplicate what someone else did. The A R T of influencing people to reach a desired result. Many chances in the services to see if you have it or don't have it. All the other qualities listed help to make a leader a leader.
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I have been asked this same question since I enlisted. And to this day I stand by my first answer. It does not matter. The fact is it is impossible to (Fully) live up to anyone for these with out (Fully) living up to them all. Just pick any circumstance in the military that you have ever faced then randomly pick a value and (Fully) integrate that value into the situation. If you can for example do your duty to the highest without having honor you let me know
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I feel "honor" is the tree (root) and the other values are the branches extending out for support. When you consider that service members that leave active duty receive a DD-214 that has typed wording to describe the category of the discharge as "honorable" says it all-:)
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For me and still holds true to me right now. It is Integrity. Only you can compromise that. If you maintain your integrity, everything else falls in line. Once you fail your integrity, then your honor, respect will fail as well.
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I heard a lot of soldiers speak about Army values in my 23 years but very few live by them.
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SPC Wanda Vergara-Yates
I did everything I could to live by those values. But then I've nearly always held myself to a higher standard than my peers. For this reason, my bosses always got worried if I appeared to be mixed up in anything that their stellar example of a perfect soldier should not be doing. Totally not fair, but it worked out better, because they believed me when I explained what happened even without evidence. When you have a reputation for honesty and good judgement, that pretty much follows. Referring to what I said about Honor and Integrity, I'm convinced that if I ever lost either of those, everyone would know something was off because that just wasn't "like" me.
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SPC Timothy Repetto
Did you sir? You might have commanded your men sir but it takes respect to actually retain what the commander says no matter how simple or unimportant the enlisted think. If they have respect they would've listened and had the self respect to follow those values.
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MAJ Seth Goldstein
I was in the reserves for my entire career other than two tours in Iraq. I always did my job to the best of my ability and never tried to get out of a deployment knowing someone else would have to go in my place. I would say that's about as selfless service as it gets.
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Since I am not Army, I will speak for my self. Love of country is the glue that binds us, despite what some may say.
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