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Cadet Honor Code: Upholding Moral Excellence for Future Leaders

The Cadet Honor Code at West Point instills values like integrity, honesty, and respect in future military leaders. The code’s purpose is to foster moral excellence, essential for character leadership. It emphasizes integrity as key to successful leadership, educating on ethical responsibilities and lifelong commitment to honorable living. The code prepares cadets for challenges by emphasizing truthfulness, fairness, respect, and responsibility, condemning lying, cheating, stealing, and non-toleration. Upholding these values is vital for developing leaders who embody character and competence.

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Cadet Honor Code: Upholding Moral Excellence for Future Leaders

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  1. Honor Review Committee

  2. CHARACTER LEADERSHIP COMPETENCE WEST POINT EXPERIENCE INTELLECTUAL MILITARY PHYSICAL CANDIDATE GRADUATE

  3. Purpose of the Code To Foster A Commitment To Moral* Excellence Essential To Leaders of Character For The Nation *Moral-Ethical

  4. Goals of the Code • Strengthen Integrity---Key to Successful Leadership • Educate Concerning Leader Responsibility For Ethical Climate • Inculcate a Lifelong Commitment To Honorable Living • Prepare For Future Challenges

  5. The Cadet Honor Code “A CADET WILL NOT LIE, CHEAT, OR STEAL, NOR TOLERATE THOSE WHO DO.”

  6. Lying Lying is deliberately deceiving Another by stating an untruth or by any direct form of communication to include the telling of a partial truth or vague or ambiguous use of information or language with The intent to deceive or mislead.

  7. Cheating To wrongfully act out of self-interest, do work or obtain results, or assist another to do so, with the intent to gain or give unfair advantage or with the intent to (or assist another to ) deceive or mislead.

  8. Stealing Stealing is wrongfully taking, obtaining or withholding by any means, from the possession of the owner or any other person, any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind, with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to either their use or the use of any person other than the owner

  9. Non-Toleration Cadets violate the Honor Code by tolerating if they fail to report an unresolved incident with honor implications to proper authority within a reasonable length of time.

  10. Positive Values of the Honor Code • Truthfulness (Honesty) • Fairness • Respect for others and their property • Responsibility for upholding the values of the Code

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