Integrity and Responsibility: Two Serious Things to Have in the Army

Integrity and Responsibility: Two Serious Things to Have in the Army

Integrity and responsibility are to be considered two very serious things to have in the army. While integrity is one of the seven army values, responsibility is also looked on heavily being in the army. Integrity is defined as to be honest or truthful. I failed to have integrity while not being honest about what happened to my airfield ID badge. I told my NCO’s that the air force gate guards took it while really, I had lost it somewhere in my working area. Later a few days after this happened, a maintenance test pilot found it just lying around on a pad. He later then turned it in to one of my NCO’s. When I later came into work that night my NCO confronted me about my airfield badge and I still said that the air force gate guard still took it, not knowing that he had my airfield badge. I then began to tell my NCO the truth about what really happened with my badge. I failed to live up to having integrity by lying to my NCO. I should have been upright with him the first time when I recognized that it went missing so that we could appropriately address the situation and find my badge right away. If my badge fell into the wrong hands, people could use it to basically just walk into the airfield and possibly steal equipment or possibly even destroy military equipment. It is pretty easy to use someone else’s air field badge due to the fact that the gate guards do not always check the picture on the badge. When you lie about something small as losing your airfield badge, it leads people to believe that they cannot trust you with other things such as working on a multi-million dollar aircraft. Once you lose your trust between people it is extremely hard to gain their trust back. Individuals and also the ones who you see and work with on a daily basis could start to lose confidence in you on doing the proper procedures on maintaining the aircraft. Expectations of integrity are high in every aspect of the army even when it comes down to the smallest things, you must...

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