Current Events

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Current Events

• U.S. Military Documents Show 21 War Detainees
  Were Homicide Victims,
• convenient lead in to Core Values
• Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92
• 20 fined for using letters W and Q
• Glad I am not Turkish!

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Navy Core Values
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Core Values

• MOST CHALLENGING TIME IN HISTORY
• MORE RESPONSIVE AND FLEXIBLE NAVY
• CORNERSTONE OF THE NAVY - PEOPLE
• 9 OCT 1992 - CNO ADOPTED CORE VALUES
• HONOR
• COURAGE
• COMMITMENT

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Core Values

• GOALS
• Learn Realize what Navy Core Values are and how
  they serve as the basis for your decisions and
  actions - Everyday!
• Think Recognize when Core Values are being
  compromised
• Act Do the Right Thing
• We are professionals serving our country , who
  are responsible to our country on off duty!

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Core Values - Why?

• Diverse work force with people from different
  educational, cultural, religious backgrounds
• Its your challenge to make the navy work
  environment in which all people can work to
  their max potential - free from bigotry and
  harassment

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Navy Working Environment

• The Navy needs Leadership
• The Navy needs Core Values
• To define expectations guidelines for
• Conduct
• Behavior
• Decisions
• 24 hours a day!
• Learn from others mistakes!!

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Core Values

• What are the foundations of the Core Values?
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution
• Oath of Office
• Laws (UCMJ)
• Navy Regulations
• Code of Conduct
• Honor Code
• Not a watchdog policy

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Core Values

• SOCIETY TODAY
• What are the reasons/causes we have these
  problems?
• Lack of firmly founded goals
• Lack of personal commitment
• Loss of self-respect
• Distorted notions of Freedom
• Lack of mutual Respect
• Erosion of basic Values System

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Core Values

• Where did you learn or acquire the values that
  you have now?
• Now you must take on the navys core values
• Where did the navy get its values?

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CORE VALUES

• What do the terms actually mean ?
• HONOR
• A keen sense of ethical conduct.
• COURAGE
• Mental or Moral strength to resist opposition,
  danger, or hardship.
• COMMITMENT
• The state of being obligated or emotionally
  impelled.

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HonorI will bear true faith and allegiance...

• Honor A keen sense of ethical conduct
• I am the sort of person who
• Behaves with honesty, responsibility and decency
• Takes responsibility for my actions
• Keeps my word
• Does not Lie, Cheat, or Steal
• Respects the dignity of others, whatever their
  race, religion or cultural background
• Rejects violence as a way of solving personal
  problems

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HonorI will bear true faith and allegiance...

• We Will
• Conduct ourselves in the highest ethical manner
  in all relationships with seniors, peers and
  subordinates
• Be willing to make honest recommendations and
  accept them from junior personnel
• Encourage new ideas and deliver the bad news,
  even when it is unpopular
• Abide by an uncompromising code of integrity

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CourageI will obey the orders...

• Courage Mental or moral strength to resist
  opposition, danger or hardship.
• I am the sort of person who
• Is proud to be an American
• Is loyal to the Navy, and ultimately to the
  Constitution
• Knows and Values the Navys history
• Has the courage to resist negative peer pressure
• Has the strength of mind and spirit to confront
  danger with personal bravery

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CourageI will obey the orders...

• We Will
• Have the courage to meet the demands of our
  profession and the mission when it is hazardous,
  demanding or otherwise difficult.
• Meet these challenges while adhering to a higher
  standard of personal conduct and decency
• be loyal to our nation, ensuring the resources
  entrusted to us are used in an honest careful,
  and efficient way

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CourageI will obey the orders...

• Courage is the value that gives us the moral and
  mental strength to do what is right even in the
  face of personal or professional adversity.

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CommitmentI will support and defend

• Commitment The state of being obligated or
  emotionally impelled.
• I am the sort of person who
• Studies and works to become proficient in my
  profession
• Is a team player
• Takes pride in doing a good job
• Demonstrates courage, dedication, enthusiasm, and
  courtesy
• Maintains a healthy, physically fit, and
  drug-free lifestyle

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CommitmentI will support and defend

• We will
• Demand respect up and down the chain of command
• Show respect toward all people without regard to
  race, religion, or gender
• Treat each individual with human dignity

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CommitmentI will support and defend

• The day-to-day duty of every Navy man and woman
  is to work together as a team to improve the
  quality of our work, our people, and ourselves.

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Core Values

• What is the Navy doing to ensure that Core Values
  are being incorporated into the workplace?

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Core Values

• Fraternization
• Hazing
• Sexual Harassment

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Fraternization

• Definition
• Personal relationships between officers and
  enlisted members which are unduly familiar and do
  not respect differences in rank and grade are
  inappropriate.
• Also
• Similar relationships where a senior-subordinate
  relationship exist are also inappropriate.
• Are prejudicial to good order and discipline or
  Bring discredit to the Naval Service

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Hazing

• Naval Customs, Ceremonies and traditional events
  serve to enhance morale, espri de corps and
  pride.
• Examples
• Shellback, Bluenose, Order of the Rock, Order of
  the Ditch, Pinning Ceremonies
• However, personal rites of passage which may be
  construed as hazing shall not be tolerated in the
  Navy.
• CO or direct representative will be involved with
  the planning / directing of all events
• Glamorization of alcohol will not be tolerated
• Sexually suggestive gags, props or activities are
  prohibited
• Participation is voluntary

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Hazing

• Hazing is any exposure of our people to cruelty,
  indignity, humiliation, hardship or deprivation
  of their rights.
• The men and women of the Naval Service have
  significant value to the future defense of the
  Nation and must be afforded the dignity and
  respect they have earned and deserve.

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Sexual Harassment

• Definition Sexual harassment is a form of sex
  discrimination that involves unwelcomed sexual
  advances or requests of a sexual nature when

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Sexual Harassment

• Submission to or rejection of such conduct is
  used as a basis for career or employment
  decisions affecting that person, or
• Such conduct interferes with an individuals
  performance or creates an intimidating hostile or
  offensive environment.

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Sexual Harassment

• For a persons behavior to be considered sexual
  harassment, it must meet three criteria
• It must be unwelcome
• It must be sexual in nature
• It must occur in, or impact on the work
  environment.

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Sexual Harassment

• GREEN ZONE
• YELLOW ZONE
• RED ZONE

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What can YOU do?

• Recognize/reward correct behavior
• Create positive peer pressure
• Know your people be sensitive
• Think! Are you sending the right signal?
• Become involved
• Communicate up down chain of command

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Sailors Creed

• I am a United States Sailor.
• I will support and defend the Constitution of the
  United States of America and I will obey the
  orders of those appointed over me.
• I represent the fighting spirit of the Navy and
  those who have gone before me to defend freedom
  and democracy around the world.
• I proudly serve my countrys combat team with
  honor, courage, and commitment.
• I am committed to excellence and the fair
  treatment of all

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Oath of Office

• I, (state your name), do solemnly swear that I
  will support and defend the Constitution of the
  United States against all enemies, foreign and
  domestic that I will bear true faith and
  allegiance to the same I will obey the orders of
  the President of the United States and the
  officers appointed over me, according to
  regulations and the Uniform Code of Military
  Justice. I take this obligation freely, without
  any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and
  that I will well and faithfully discharge the
  duties of the office on which I am about to
  enter. So help me God.

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Case Study What would you do?

• LT Alioto grew up on a remote Pacific island
  before his family
• moved to the US, where they prospered through
  hard work. He is
• apparently the only officer in the Army who
  speaks a language
• variant called Tagalog D. The lieutenant faces a
  difficult personal
• situation. His widowed mother has never learned
  English and now
• lives with him. She depends on him to assist in
  family financial
• affairs. LT Aliotos only daughter, three years
  old, was born with a
• severe physical abnormality which requires four
  hours of
• administered exercise a day, a task he shares
  with his wife who
• otherwise would have difficulty coping. Now the
  Army needs LT
• Alioto as well--for an unaccompanied assignment
  in the Pacific
• where the US is building a major new forward
  support base for naval
• forces as well as for an Army unit. LT Aliotos
  language skill, he is
• told, will be critical in working with some local
  ethnic groups who
• are resisting the long-term agreement into which
  the island
• government has entered with the US. LT Alioto is
  considering
• whether to ask that his PCS orders be revoked for
  compassionate
• reasons and what to do if he does submit such a
  request and it is
• denied.

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Core Values - Summary

• How can you apply these values?
• Live up to expectations by abiding
  by
• Midshipman Honor Code
• Personally strive

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Questions?