Leadership Principles & Traits (Marine Corps)

[Pier Carlo]

Marine Corps Leadership Principles


Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
Be technically and tactically proficient.
Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates.
Make sound and timely decisions.
Set the example.
Know your Marines and look out for their welfare.
Keep your Marines informed.
Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions.
Ensure assigned tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.
Train your Marines as a team.
Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities.




Marine Corps Leadership Traits

Dependability: The certainty of proper performance of duty.
Bearing: Creating a favorable impression in carriage, appearance and personal conduct at all times.
Courage: The mental quality that recognizes fear of danger or criticism, but enables a man to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.
Decisiveness: Ability to make decisions promptly and to announce them in clear, forceful manner.
Endurance: The mental and physical stamina measured by the ability to withstand pain, fatigue, stress and hardship.
Enthusiasm: The display of sincere interest and exuberance in the performance of duty.
Initiative: Taking action in the absence of orders.
Integrity: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principles; includes the qualities of truthfulness and honesty.
Judgment: The ability to weigh facts and possible solutions on which to base sound decisions.
Justice: Giving reward and punishment according to merits of the case in question. The ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments impartially and consistently.
Knowledge: Understanding of a science or an art. The range of one's information, including professional knowledge and an understanding of your Marines.
Tact: The ability to deal with others without creating offense.
Unselfishness: Avoidance of providing for one's own comfort and personal advancement at the expense of others.
Loyalty: The quality of faithfulness to country, the Corps, the unit, to one's seniors, subordinates and peers.

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[Zigliara]

FFL leadership = brutish ability to persuade others to do something willingly that they wouldn't otehrwise do..... :)

[mortarman77]

Jj Did Tie Buckle

[one56779]

Basics of a Warrior Ethos
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By Col. Roderick Smith, USMCR (Ret)
Enthusiasm for the military life is a calling, not a job. It's based on the willingness to subordinate individual thoughts and concerns, including the concern to protect one's own life, for the good of the group and the mission. It's teamwork at its heart, and teamwork in its most complex form.

Such enthusiasm is gained by experience, self-discipline and camaraderie. Recruits rarely have it, although must hold the potential for it. Military recruits join their service for three primary reasons: (1) Membership-the opportunity to belong to a prideful organization and to show off that membership, (2) Challenge-the ability to undergo, endure and conquer physical and mental circumstances well beyond ordinary, daily life, and (3) Adventure-consistent with numbers 1 and 2 above, the opportunity to participate directly or vicariously in exciting, demanding and potentially dangerous activities. Service in the more "safe" military occupations-cooks, accountants, and administrators-must be viewed as valuable parts of the overall combat team, or they become mere civilian employment.

A military calling finds its core in the warrior's spirit…the desire to close with and kill your enemy; defeating his cause - all while operating under a code of honor and shared values. Any soldier, sailor, airman or Marine excelling in their occupation, but eschewing this warrior spirit, is merely a good, civil servant in uniform. Camaraderie, the ability to share this warrior's spirit with others undergoing substantially identical experiences and challenges, is the glue holding the system together.

Military pay must be present and sufficient to support the consistency of the system, and to provide for an appropriate level of lifestyle for rank attained. So long as fundamental fairness and ability to support oneself is maintained, attraction of pay is not a prime motivator to a calling.

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It's a good website, many more excellent articles:

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[Stoeng]

Hmmm… True!! Not so stupid this Col Smith, he got the point.

[RaiderDingo]

After I Left the Legion I enlisted in the US Army and when I attended the NCO Academy we had to learn this creed and we lived by it. It also has good points and Like the US Marines we lived by our creed.

HOOAH!


Noncommissioned Officer, I realize that I am a member of a time honored corps, which is known as "The Backbone of the Army". I am proud of the Corps of Noncommissioned Officers and will at all times conduct myself so as to bring credit upon the Corps, the Military Service and my country regardless of the situation in which I find myself. I will not use my grade or position to attain pleasure, profit, or personal safety.

Competence is my watchword. My two basic responsibilities will always be uppermost in my mind -- accomplishment of my mission and the welfare of my soldiers. I will strive to remain tactically and technically proficient. I am aware of my role as a Noncommissioned Officer. I will fulfill my responsibilites inherent in that role. All soldiers are entitled to outstanding leadership; I will provide that leadership. I know my soldiers and I will always place their needs above my own. I will communicate consistently with my soldiers and never leave them uninformed. I will be fair and impartial when recommending both rewards and punishment.

Officers of my unit will have maximum time to accomplish their duties; they will not have to accomplish mine. I will earn their respect and confidence as well as that of my soldiers. I will be loyal to those with whom I serve; seniors, peers, and subordinates alike. I will exercise initiative by taking appropriate action in the absence of orders. I will not compromise my integrity, nor my moral courage. I will not forget, nor will I allow my comrades to forget that we are professionals, Noncommissioned Officers, leaders!

[one56779]

Saw ROTC mentioned in some thread so thought to update this with the following, may not be entirely uptodate:

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[BobW]

" 'Tis better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission. "

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, except do it first."

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

Saluations,
BobW

[Martin Scott]

" 'Tis better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission. "

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, except do it first."

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

Saluations,
BobW
Always remember a quote from my instructors on the Caporal Course,we are here to make you Legion Junior NCO, this is the hardest rank to achieve in the Legion and also the easiest to lose. If you cannot do more,march further,sleep less and do your share of the shitty jobs which we are going to throw at you in the next fourteen weeks ,you will never have the respect of the Legionnaires that you command.

[Martin Scott]

" 'Tis better to ask for forgiveness than to seek permission. "

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, except do it first."

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

Saluations,
BobW
Ladies and Gentlemen can I get a amen

[flash010]

hahaha the do on to others was the brit mafia moto when i was in ....do on to others as they would do onto you but do it harder and faster and get rid of the bod's lol :)

[Martin Scott]

hahaha the do on to others was the brit mafia moto when i was in ....do on to others as they would do onto you but do it harder and faster and get rid of the bod's lol :)
Same in the cavalry laddie, same in the cavalry.

[Monty_Medic]

Or if your a officer

Do as say and not as i do
and
Cover your Arse

Hey this is my 100th post
Do I get a gold watch or something

:p :p :p :p

[Martin Scott]

No Monty your still a wannabe as far as that goes but I send a four pack over anyway.

[Monty_Medic]

Thank You Martin
I know I will be a wanna be till I go.

:D :D :D

[ArcticWolf]

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Alan - not sure when you'll next be on - just to let you know the first link doesn't seem to be working...?

The other links are great though! Thanks!