Army Values

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Task Learn, discuss the Army Values Conditions
Classroom Standards Apply Army Values to all
situations.
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The Seven Army Core Values

• Loyalty
• Duty
• Respect
• Selfless Service
• Honor
• Integrity
• Personal Courage

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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
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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
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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
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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.

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

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

Duty
Fulfill your obligations.
Respect
Treat people as they should be treated.
Selfless Service
Put the welfare of the Nation, the Army, and
your subordinates before your own.
Honor
Live up to all the Army Values
Integrity
Do whats right, legally and morally.
Personal Courage
Face fear, danger, or adversity both physical
or moral.
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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.

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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 shape our
behavior.
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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.

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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 ones self, and
  those of ones subordinates.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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, Dont shoot, dont 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.

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Story 1 Prisoners in the Desert

• I told my wing man, Ill cover the tank, you go
  on down and check around the back side and see
  whats 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.

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Story 1 Prisoners in the Desert

• 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 wouldnt catch
  any shrapnel or ammunition coming off. When the
  tank blew up, these guys started yelling and
  screaming at my soldiers, Dont shoot us, dont
  shoot us, and one of my soldiers said, Hey,
  were from America. We dont shoot our
  prisoners. That sort of stuck with me.

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Question

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

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Answers

• In this story, it was clear in the US soldiers
  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
  nature?part of his values.

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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.

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Story 2 Stuart S. Stryker

• 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.

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Story 2 Stuart S. Stryker

• 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.

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Story 2 Stuart S. Stryker

• 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.

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Question

• What Army core values did PFC Stryker
  demonstrate?

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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.

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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."

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Story 3 Brigadier General McAuliffe in
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.

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Story 3 Brigadier General McAuliffe in
Bastogne

• This response to the enemy became a big morale
  booster to the besieged US division, and the
  101st continued to resistdespite 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.

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Question

• What values were demonstrated here?

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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

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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.

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Story 4 Operation Assured Response

• 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.

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Story 4 Operation Assured Response

• 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.

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Story 4 Operation Assured Response

• 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.

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Story 4 Operation Assured Response

• 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.

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Story 4 Operation Assured Response

• 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.

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Story 4 Operation Assured Response

• 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 Armys and the countrys
  values.

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Question

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

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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..

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Answers

• Integrity was demonstrated by doing what was
  legally rightprotecting US citizens, but also
  what was morally righthelping 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.

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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.

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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)

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Summary
Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integr
ity Personal Courage