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
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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SPC Michael Dunton
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I try to live my life by them all,but it sure can be hard some times
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PFC Francis Ramseyer
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I think you tell them all !
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SPC Wanda Vergara-Yates
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For me, Honor and Integrity are intertwined. If you use your sense of one, the sense of the other follows. Sorry, but I can't say just ONE on this one.
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SSG Richard Stevens
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For me it is selfless service as a veteran, I think we need to help others in need. And be there for one another. Our world has become so self centered. I look for ways to help others
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SPC Cileece Middleton
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I will admit I only made it to SPC rank before leaving the Army to fulfill , what I felt to be at the time, the higher calling of raising a family with my husband. I have been out of the military for about 9 years now and I learned a long time ago that being true to loyalty does not mean blind loyalty. When we take our oath to "defend the constitution...against all enemies both foreign and domestic" that statement allows for the understanding that threats may arise from those naturally born citizens of the US. Loyalty is not less important, but the individuals to whom we owe our loyalty may change as the person we commit our loyalty to shows us that they are not worthy of it. That being said all of those values are important to me as an individual to this day. I have been blessed with a partner to which I feel my Loyalty will always be due even if we are no longer partners, as well as the many friends I remain loyal to for my lifetime. I pledge my loyalty to all public figures whom I see making progress as a person. My Duty, Respect, and Selfless Service will always be due to all American citizens. The values of Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage will always be measures against which I judge my actions in life.
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CPT Geoffrey Lea
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All are vital, but to me, it starts with Integrity. What are the others without Integrity? Not much.
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SPC Kimberly Vernon-Hendrix
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Integrity, simply because it means doing what is right even when no one is looking. I feel by having integrity you automatically follow the others, because integrity encompasses them all.
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SGT Stanley Bass
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Before i read other comments. You really cant put one above the other. You have Loyalty to your Country and your brothers and sisters in Arms. You have to perform you Duty to get the job done, and get it done efficiently and the right way. You have to respect God and Country and your superiors as well as your Peers and lowers, or you will get no respect in turn. Selfless service is everybody in he military, meaning, you do your job. Not for self gratification, not for attention but to accomplish the mission at hand. Honor is honoring those that have come before you and blazed a trail for you to follow or emulate, as well as the trail you will leave for those that come after you, to follow or emulate. Integrity, without Integrity your service to God and Country will falter. If you are disloyal, or dishonest in your service you will have no integrity, which will affect all the others. personal Courage, everybody has this in them, all at different levels. None of us would serve overseas let alone around the country if we did not have personal courage. Thats my two cents
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LTC Russ Smith
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It had to be "Integrity." If you lack integrity it is impossible to possess any of the other values.
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SPC Christopher Perrien
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Edited 9 y ago
I think all of these could be said to flow from "integrity".
The measure of that in a soldier, or any person, determines the rest.
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