An individual augmentee with V Corps out of Heidelberg, Germany, tasked for duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major John Lorenzen arrived in country in January 2006 thinking he was going to be assigned to the combined staff logistics shop...
An individual augmentee on a two-month rotation between February and May 2005 with the Office of Military Cooperation-Afghanistan, Major Brent Novak - at the time the chief of West Point's Leader Development Branch - was tasked with helping to...
An experienced emergency room physician who joined the Florida Army National Guard after 9/11 "to serve my country," Major (Dr.) Lisa DeWitt - by November 2004 - was in Iraq voluntarily serving as the surgeon for 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry...
An ethical problem facing this great Army today is Soldiers doing the right thing even in the absence of orders or supervision. Very often junior Soldiers may simply join a group of friends and partake in an event that might seem fun, however may...
An ethical problem facing the Army today is the manner in which Soldiers treat persons captured or detained on the battlefield. The solution to this problem lay with leaders ensuring that their Soldiers know the law pertaining to this subject and...
An ethical problem facing the Army today is General Order number lA. This policy
bans the possession, use, and consumption of alcoholic beverages while deployed to a foreign nation. Morale, safety, unit cohesion, and discipline are the topics of...
An ethical problem facing the Army today is General Order number 1A. This policy bans the possession, use, and consumption of alcoholic beverages while deployed to a foreign nation. Morale, safety, unit cohesion, and discipline are the topics of...
An ethical problem facing the Army today is General Order number 1A. This policy bans the possession, use, and consumption of alcoholic beverages while deployed to a foreign nation. Morale, safety, unit cohesion, and discipline are the topics of...
An ethical dilemma exists when a person feels wrong about making the right decision.
Making decisions at work that involves friends and family are even more difficult to deal with.
Army Regulation 600-20, Army Command Policy (2006), briefly covers...
An environmental science officer, Major Joanne Cline commanded the 133rd Medical Detachment - a 10-person preventive medicine organization - in Iraq from February 2004 through February 2005. From her center base at Camp Victory in Baghdad, in this...
Amidst the public condemnation of abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons, it is leadership that will prevent such occurrences. These occurrences were counter to the units these service members represent. The leadership was reacting to the...
Americans over time have been disappointed with the ethical treatment of Prisoners of War. Since World War I, through our present conflicts we as a nation have paid close attention to how human beings are treated when they become captured. Most...
Cordova, Silvia; Engel, Carl W.; Leeworthy, Jason F.; Leimer, Robert F.; Martell, Osvaldo
Americans are living longer and healthier lives today than in any other period in our country’s history. Since 1980, the life expectancy of the average American has risen from 73.7 to 78.2 years, a notable increase. Americans, on average, live 10...
American Soldiers have no excuse for abusing prisoners of war. The term "war crimes," is a military term used for violation of the Laws of War by any person or persons. American Soldiers are trained in the Code of Conduct, Laws of War, handling of...
American Soldiers continually display the highest ethical standards of any employees or members of any organization. Likewise, the United States Army develops and instills these ethics into their employees better than any other organization. We...
American Soldiers are facing more challenging situations than ever before. In today’s
battlefield environment, of Soldiers charging the objective is slowly going away. Military
Soldiers must now deal with trying understanding the contemporary...