Duty & Moral Courage

1. Duty & Moral Courage LTP E2-3

2. Purpose • Identify “Duty” and the leader’s obligation to “Duty.” • Explain how to determine the Standards Failure and how to remedy it. • Explain the application of these principles outside the gate.

3. “A man who accepts membership in the Corps of Cadets must be willing to do unpleasant things when they are part of his duty. If he expects to be a leader he must not be afraid to require obedience from any cadet under him and to report any cadet under him for a breach of regulations.” Cadet Regulations 1930

4. A Leader’s Obligation • This extract from the Cadet Regulations from 1930 is requiring cadets to step up to the next level of their leadership development. The expectation is the application of moral courage to not only do the right thing, but also insist that others do the same. • It requires standing firm against the powerful inner forces that drive us to conformity

5. Setting the Standard

6. Leadership Is A Responsibility As a leader: • you must let your subordinates know not only where you stand, but what you expect of them. • you must know the rules, communicate those rules, and enforce them consistently so that your subordinates know that you won’t let them slide into trouble.

7. “A man who accepts membership in the Corps of Cadets must be willing to do unpleasant things when they are part of his duty. If he expects to be a leader he must not be afraid to require obedience from any cadet under him and to report any cadet under him for a breach of regulations.” Cadet Regulations 1930

8. ACHIEVING THE STANDARD Where is the standards failure? The Challenge for Cadet Leaders is clear, concise, and without waiver. • Standard does not exist = Standards Failure! • Know the Standard (Find out what right looks like!) • Standard Exists but is not known = Training Failure! • Train to Standard (Do it the right way!) • Standard known but not followed = Individual Failure! • Follow the Standard (Be the example!) • Standard known but not enforced = Leadership Failure! • Enforce the Standard (Uphold your leadership responsibility!)

9. On Duty “But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his ill-advised favor. What will be thought of him who exacts of his friends that which disgraces him? Look at him who winks at and overlooks offences in one, which he causes to be punished in another, and contrast him with the inflexible soldier who does his duty faithfully, notwithstanding it occasionally wars with his private feelings. The conduct of one will be venerated and emulated, the other detested as a satire upon soldiership and honor.” • Brevet Major William Jenkins Worth

10. Duty First; People Always • A leader cannot afford to show partiality and still demand respect. • Being in a leadership role demands responsibility, accountability, and making the hard decisions when necessary. • It is important for the leader to make known where they stand on the rules. • You may not like the rule, but you are still obligated to enforce them impartially.

11. Duty in the face of Danger • Two Marines In The Path Of A Truck Bomb • : http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-4816675.htm

12. "The character that takes command in moments of crucial choices has already been determined by a thousand other choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments. It has been determined by all the 'little' choices of the past--by all those times when the voice of conscience was at war with the voice of temptation, [which was] whispering the lie that 'it really doesn't matter.' It has been determined by all the day-to-day decisions made when life seemed easy and crises seemed far away…” – President Ronald Reagan Questions & Comments