Task: Learn, discuss the Army Values

Conditions: Conference room

Standards: Apply Army Values to all situations.

Presented By: PFC Santana, Wilkin.

The Seven Army Core Values

Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integrity Personal Courage

Use Army Core Values to Focus Your Skills

“In peacetime, we practice tactics, strategy, and weapons firing. We must do the same

with our values.”

General Donn A. StarryYears of service: 1943-1944 (enlisted)1948-1983 (officer)

Army Core Values Form a System

Our Army values form a system of belief and behavior of what is proper conduct for a soldier of the US Army.

Values Defined

The social principles, goals, or standards held or accepted by an individual, class, or society.

The abstract concepts of what is right, worthwhile, or desirable; principles or standards.

Remember the Army Values L-D-R-S-H-I-P

Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other soldiers.

Loyalty:Duty:Respect:Selfless Service:Honor:Integrity:Personal Courage:

Treat people as they should be treated.

Put the welfare of the Nation, the Army, and your subordinates before your own.

Live up to all the Army Values

Do what’s right, legally and morally.

Face fear, danger, or adversity both

physical or moral.

Fulfill your obligations.

Integrity Army integrity means possessing

high personal moral standards and being honest in word and deed.

It involves the consistent adherence of action to one's personal moral beliefs.

The goal over time is for your private moral code of integrity to converge with the publicly declared code of honor for the Army.

The soldier profession

“A soldier is the most-trusted profession in America. Americans have trust in you because you trust each other. No matter how difficult times are, those of us who

love the Army must stick with it.”

SMA Richard A. KiddYears of service: 1962-1995

Story: Stuart S. Stryker

PFC Stuart S. Stryker was assigned to Company E, of the 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division. On 24 March 1945 he was a platoon runner when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany, after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machine guns, and four field pieces.

Story: Stuart S. Stryker

One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when PFC Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him.

Story: Stuart S. Stryker

Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective, the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy's attention that the company was able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, and freeing three members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there.

Story: Stuart S. Stryker

The fearlessness and unhesitating self-sacrifice of PFC Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.

PFC Stryker was born and entered service at Portland, Oregon. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Question: What Army core values did PFC

Stryker demonstrate?

Answers:

Duty, by fulfilling his obligations without direction.

Personal courage for his action in the face of danger.

Loyalty, by urging his comrades to continue the fight.

Honor, by living up to all the Army values.

Summary

The Army core values go hand in hand with Army combat skills.

The Army core values all work together, and no value can be ignored in favor of another.

The Army core values must be practiced as a part of the way we live as US Army soldiers.

Closing Quote

“We can't all do everything; we can't all have every badge, every medal, or every award. But that's okay. As long as you do what you're supposed to do and you do it well, you're going to be okay. If soldiers do the right thing every day because it is the right thing to do, treat other soldiers with dignity and respect, and follow the golden rule, they will succeed as soldiers and the Army will succeed as a whole.”

SMA Robert E. HallYears of service: 1968-2000