accountability in the army

accountability in the army



Accountablity is of the upmost importance to the United States military. Why is that, what makes it so vital in both garrison and in deployment? To better understand this you should know what it really means. To be accountable for something is to have complete responsibity for it. In the United States military you have more responsiblity than most being that you protect each and every American as well as the soil we live on. As a soldier you are held accountable for your equipment, what comes out of your mouth, how you behave, your soldiers. To be accountable means even more than that though. It means you're dependable, and to be dependable means you can be trusted. The ideal soldier is one that if you tell to get something done you have no doubt in your mind that he can accomplish that task. When you're breaching a door you want to trust the men behind you. You want to know that when you enter that room that your battle buddies have your blind spots covered.
Keeping track of all your equipment, knowing where it is and that it operates effiectivley ensures that when something needs to be done you'll be ready, and you'll accomplish the mission. This value is instilled in us almost as soon as you begin your military career. What happened when somebody forgot to lock up their wall locker? Absolute devastation, thats what. If you were lucky you didnt get "corrective training" or "remedial physical training". Best case scenario you spent the little freetime you did get in basic training to clean the bay again. The drill sergeants would scatter all the items within the locker throughout the bay and flip all the bunks as well as lockers because nobody corrected that mistake. You never understand the importance of whats trying to be taught unless you really think about it. If I forgot to lock my cage at work and some turd private decided to steal all of my equipment and sell it at GI Joses' for beer money do you think the Army is going to save me? Absolutly not,...

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