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CHAPTER 5
DISCIPLINE AND LEADERSHIP
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
Identify the purpose of discipline in the 7.
military.
Describe the various qualities of a leader.
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List the actions that characterize an outstand-
ing officer.
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Identify the core values of the U.S. Navy.
Describe the Navy’s policy on equal 10.
opportunisty.
Identify the Navy’s support program for single 11.
parents.
Describe the Navy’s policy on fraternization.
Describe the Navy’s policy on sexual harass-
ment and sexual responsibility.
Identify the Navy’s requirements for physical
readiness.
Describe the Navy Leader Development
Program courses offered by the Navy.
Civilian executives lead by virtue of superior
knowledge (through education an/or experience)
and strong characteristics or personality. No law
sanctions their positions, and they may not be
legally responsible for those they lead. Their
responsibility, if any, for the well-being of
their followers is primarily a moral one. On the
other hand, military officers, by virtue of their
commissions, have a legal as well as a moral
obligation. They represent the government’s
responsibility to enforce the law of the land, and
they are charged with the well-being of their
personnel.
A leader’s position is, to an extent, analogous
to that of a skilled artisan with a fine set of tools.
The artisan keeps those tools in first-class condi-
tion, for on them depends the artisan’s ability to
turn out fine work. The leader’s tools are the per-
sonnel who are assigned to accomplish the
assigned mission. They, like the artisan’s tools,
must be in good physical condition; but here the
analogy ends. Personnel are not objects to be
polished by supplying their physical needs, to be
laid aside when finished with a job, and to be
picked up again when needed.
Even though the Navy does everything feasible
to provide for the physical well-being of its
personnel, the young officer must not assume that
personnel are well cared for. The officer must be
personally concerned with their welfare and must
know each individual’s background, capabilities,
and limitations. The officer should be aware
constantly that debts, personal health, or any one
of many problems may destroy a person’s peace
of mind and efficiency.
A good officer gains the confidence of the
personnel so that they will feel free to talk about
their problems, knowing they will get all possible
assistance. Occasionally people have difficulty
discussing their personal problems with a superior.
A skillful officer maybe able to draw such people
out and help them; however an officer should use
care and tact when attempting this.
Every group has a few people whose sole
interest in life is to complete their time in the Navy
and return to civilian life. Most of them are merely
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Identify the six points of the code of conduct.
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