Army Profession Essay

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The Army as Professionals, to say those words may sound a little bizarre

because of the nature of the word Army and the way we as American’s have been

conditioned to think of this Armed Force. We have been taught to see ourselves as an

institution with a massive amount of discipline, strategic tactics, and those who have

been trained to be ready to use lethal force and possibly even the ultimate sacrifice of

losing their own life for their country. Over the years the Army has been transitioning

into more of a Professional Army, known as the Profession of Arms. Making the Army

more of a profession and not just staying with stereotypical saying of just being a well-

oiled machine. Or even just those who are ready to use lethal …show more content…

I will even pride myself in currently upholding

and applying these attributes to my daily routine not only as a Soldier but when I am

assisting the personnel with in my ranks.

One of the references that stood out the most to me was the “Balancing Role of

the Profession’s Leaders”. With an ever changing Army, “The continuous challenge for

the strategic leaders of the Army since the latter decades of the 19th century when the

U.S. Army was professionalized has been to keep the Army balanced (United States

Army , 2010).” With this balance the Army believes that there are two areas that are

relevant for balance, one being key role players. We would call this area of balance our

senior leaders or as I like to say higher echelon. This group of individuals include our

general officers, sergeant majors, and colonels. Of course the first thing that came to

mind when I heard the word “key” is a Sergeant Major, which I happened to be partially

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correct. I believe that balance is very important, especially in the HR realm. When it

comes to doing personnel actions for a full Brigade as I currently do, it had to be a

system that was previously put into place by my S-1 senior leaders. If my

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