Ethical Dilemmas Involving the Military Awards Process
Abstract
Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) face many ethical decisions when recommending soldiers for military awards. There are numerous circumstances when our NCOs have been faced with two Soldiers that deserve commendation and the commands guidance is to recommend only one Soldier. NCOs' are the first line supervisors of most Soldiers in the Army today. It is the NCO that must be able to identify when one of their Soldiers deserve and or earned a military award. The NCO must be able to articulate the achievement, commendable performance, outstanding service, and in many cases today heroism, gallantry and bravery when recommending military awards. This will allow our chain of command to understand the Soldiers accomplishments and recommend approval or not. Army commands have issued guidance on the type and or percentage of awards to recommend for wartime service, training events, inspections, and other military operations. This guidance in some cases is too extreme and not in keeping with the regulation and history of military awards. We must ensure that as Senior Leaders we do not put our subordinate leaders in these ethical dilemmas and support their recommendations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 03, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA631449
Entities
People
- Robert H. Levis
Organizations
- United States Army Sergeants Major Academy