Integrity
Integrity is a concept of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcomes. Integrity is regarded as the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard to the motivations for one's actions. (1)
Do what is right, legally and morally. Integrity is a quality you develop by adhering to moral principles. It requires that you do and say nothing that deceives others. As your integrity grows, so does the trust others place in you. (2)
Integrity is important because without integrity it would be hard to trust one another. Someone who shows low integrity generally is someone who people tend not to want to place faith in to get things done, or place leadership responsibilities on. If a person cannot be trusted than it breaks down the core of a team, if the team does not trust each other than they will be less likely to achieve as well as a team that has more trust for each other. The army is built on team work and values, integrity is one of the many cogs in a working machine right next to trust and without those parts the machine falls to operate fluidly. If we fail to operate fluidly than the army would not be the mighty feared force we are, in essence the United States of America would not be as powerful as it is.
Integrity is an integral part of everybody's value system, a person with a "lower" value system generally is more prone to dishonest behavior, or to take the easy way, especially when no one is watching them, which in the long run could hurt the entire team because shortcuts where taken and something that needed to get done did not and it will hinder the overall mission not only making everyone else look bad, but double the work load needed to be done compared to the original amount of work needed to be done. A person with higher integrity values generally sees the now much an action can affect other people involved in the actions they are about to take, and see that a negative action...