The Marine Corps have had a very long and distinguished history of service to the country. Their main target is to become a Corps of men and women who can consistently uphold the highest moral character with or without having their uniforms on. From that commitment their foundation of Honor, Courage and Commitment becomes very evident.
There has been a lot of agreed opinion of the U.S marine being a premier world’s warrior. This distinguished title has been attributed to the strong adherence of the marines corps core values which include, honor, courage and commitment. For the purpose of this paper, values will be defined as the goals, ideals as well as standards which are to be aimed and attained. They are both what the motives and thoughts that underlies the actions. The core values are meant to ensure that the mission and the competence of the duties of the marine are well undertaken. The values of the group cannot be compromised whatsoever and so their upholding is utterly important.
From day one, recruit are made to learn of the fact that marines are expected to do what’s right even in the face of great adversary. For them to be able to understand what doing right is, they are taught about the core values and their expected code of conduct. The Corp’s core values are Honor, Courage and Commitment. It’s these values that form the foundation of a marine’s character. Together with these core values, recruits are taught other numerous values that are connected to the core ones that help in defining them. They include discipline, integrity, teamwork, duty and the spirit of corps.
The recruits are made to go through a team week which is a period of demonstrating that they understand the meaning of doing what is right. They are also expected to reveal that, they own the right ethics and the core values. The same team week tests to see that recruits are building great efforts of are able to work in environments with minimal supervision. The learning of the...