By leading and participating in service learning projects such as a JROTC Blood Drive, I am able to provide service to others, integrate lessons learned in JROTC, and gather new insights due to my participation in the service learning project.
Throughout my years in JROTC, I have had the opportunity to help assist in leading my JROTC unit’s JROTC blood drive. As a company executive officer, I worked alongside the company commander. This project required me to be in contact with various individuals in order to be successful. These individuals included my JROTC instructor, the Pennsylvania Blood Bank, school officials, students, teachers, custodians, and JROTC staff members. The company commander and I helped coordinate with the Pennsylvania
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During this process, we completed learning logs learned through the JROTC curriculum to record and access our progress. We communicated with our principal for permission to run the event and for donors and volunteering cadets to miss class. Furthermore, we created permission forma for cadets to be able to miss class and ran training sessions for volunteering cadets to register donors during lunches, set up appointments, run a sign-in table, and escorting donors to donate blood. We also set up a publicity campaign by organizing announcements for students in school lunches, hanging posters up throughout the school, creating a video, posting an announcement on an electronic announcement board, and organizing a teacher dress-down day for faculty who donated blood for the event. Although we did not meet our goal of a hundred pints at the end of the project, we were able to learn from our mistakes and were able to suggest future improvements for the project in an after action review. Because of the after action review, we were able to conduct a structured reflection and take pride in our accomplishments. The outcome of our project was able to save lives due to the donated blood and I was …show more content…
An important lesson learned in JROTC that contributed to my success and prepared me for service to others was U1-C1-L3: Leadership from the Inside Out. In this lesson, I learned about the Seven Army Values and how to overcome the pressures of being unethical in my decision-making. Learning this lesson in JROTC helped me because it instilled in me the seven Army Values that I hold true today. By following the seven Army Values, I was able to provide a meaningful service to others and conduct myself in a professional way that is expected for an Army Junior ROTC Cadet. Furthermore, I was able to avoid the pitfalls of making unethical decisions in my decision-making as a result in my established ethics and from this lesson. Moreover, the lesson U3-C1-L2: Appreciating Diversity through Winning Colors has also provided me with key insights regarding communication in a service learning project. During this lesson, I learned how to use power words to effectively communicate with others of a different winning color. As a result, I learned how to determine what motivates people and how these insights can help me be more effective in my relationships with others as a leader, thus making me more successful in providing service to others. Finally, lesson U3-C8-L2: Plan and Train for Your Exploratory Project has provided me with
LM01, Ethical Leadership Student Guide. (2012). Maxwell-Gunter AFB. Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education (AETC).
I equate service with helpfulness—assisting others. I help both my school community by answering questions and giving feedback and my community as a whole through my volunteer activities, the most enjoyable of which has been Habitat for Humanity.
While in the U.S Army I have encountered many leaders. When I reminisce on the past and try to remember all of the different leaders I have encountered, I realize they have all influenced my life in different ways. Although some of the leaders I have had made bad impressions, most have influenced my life positively. Throughout the years I have been in the U.S Army, one particular leader has helped me develop into the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) I am today. I am Staff Sergeant Eric Duty and I would not be the professional I am today without SGT Buchan’s leadership.
...n was yet another display of the most beneficial style of leadership. Putting together teams, holding regular meetings in locations that were conducive to deep thinking, allowing debates, and discussions to take place, not choosing sides and arriving at a consensus is the very core of team building and fostering inclusive environments. Doing it all while displaying sound ethical principles routed in being a southern Baptist Minister enabled Dr. King to achieve huge successes as the primary leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Taking notes from one of the great leaders of yesteryear can and does help senior non-commissioned officers get better. Being an effective motivating speaker, putting the organization before self, team building, and having appropriate ethical principles to back it all up go hand in hand with leading Airman in today’s United States Air Force.
“Good evening ma’am, are you the mother of Jane Doe?” says a police officer curiously. A mother with a frightened voice squeaks out, “Y-y-yes, officer.” Which he depressingly responds, “I’m sorry to tell you Mrs. Doe, but your daughter has been in a serious car accident. A drunk driver crossed the center line, hitting her head-on at sixty miles-per-hour. She is on her way to St. Mary’s hospital, so she can receive blood and get some tests done. She has lost a lot of blood.” The mother in shock cries a not-so-grateful thanks, hangs up the phone, and drives to the hospital. There seventeen-year-old Jane Doe is luckily doing fine. She has an IV hooked up replenishing the lost blood. It’s her second bag. The daughter and mother should be grateful for the daughter’s life. They should especially be thankful for those two pints of blood she received. A gift from donors, made to save people like Jane Doe. Although this story isn’t real, it is a scenario that shows the need for blood donation. Blood donation is a gift that every person should give in order to help others in his or her community.
Young soldiers need to learn to live the Army values, which are loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage. If these values can be instilled in us then we will have everything we need to make an excellent soldier but also a great person. These values also come into play when you are sent downrange because you want to have good fellow soldiers who will always have your back know matter what the situation you find yourself in. The army values also define our character traits as a person and they teach us discipline. The Army Values are a big part of our lives us young soldiers need to learn how to maintain them.
The purpose of this memorandum is to outline my view point on leadership. As a Drill Sergeant, it is my responsibility to transform civilians into well discipline, physically fit, and competent scouts. I am entrusted to uphold the Army standards, live the Army Values and Warrior Ethos, and instill Esprit de corps.
After joining however I quickly realized the difference I could make in someone’s life by simply donating a few hours of my time. The school children I mentor 2-3 times a week are one of the greatest delights. Many of them do not receive any one on one time with another individual except for when I am tutoring them. These children have such great potential if only their parents and other adults around them would take the time to see it. It fills me with great satisfaction knowing that I am making a difference in those who one day may be leading this
As our forefathers before us stated, ‘‘No one is more professional than I. I am a Noncommissioned Officer, a leader of soldiers. As a Noncommissioned Officer, I realize that I am a member of a time honored corps, which is known as “The Backbone of the Army (“The NCO Creed writing by SFC Earle Brigham and Jimmie Jakes Sr”). These words to Noncommissioned Officer should inspire us to the fullest with pride, honor, and integrity. The NCO creed should mean much more than just words whenever we attend a NCO’s school. For most of us this is what our creed has become because we learn to narrate or recite. The military from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard has an overabundance of NCOs who fall under their pay grade of E-5, E-6 and etc. Yet somehow there still not enough leaders. I believe that the largest problem afflicting the military today is our lack of competent leaders, ineffective leader development, and how we influence our subordinates under us who are becoming leaders.
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross.
The leadership principle that is lacking most amongst sergeants is unselfishness. Unselfishness is the avoidance of providing for one’s own comfort and personal advancement at the expense of others. With unselfishness gone, sergeants will have to determine the issue at hand, the way subordinates view sergeants’ behavior, and taking the corrective actions to fix this issue. The only way to bring the esprit de corps back to the Marine Corps and the comradery back is to have unselfishness utilized within work places. To begin with, sergeants’ have to determine the issue that is at hand.
The Red Cross Club is one of the many community groups on campus set out to help the Oswego County community during hard times by providing services to help others in need , I’d like to be part of the club in order to play a major role in changing the lives of others who may not have many opportunities, and see how helping others brings the best out of people. The purpose of being in The Red Cross Club is to unite people in the club to use their leadership skills and talent to help make a difference in providing food, shelter, and health
MLTs managed the blood bank at larger hospital and nurses managed the blood bank at smaller hospitals. As well, at CBS RNs also collected the blood from volunteers, and the RNs would bring down the blood to my department, and together we would check through the units, and make sure they units were the right size and all units were present. Nurses also had a responsibility to administer the blood to patients at the hospital, and to report back to CBS if there were any adverse reactions. Nurses were also required to work with lab assistants at CBS if they required a unique delivery of blood products. For example, I worked closely with a nurse at a rural hospital to deliver platelets for a cancer patient. This was quite a complex situation because platelets only have a 3-day shelf life, and this hospital had no place to store the product. The nurse and I worked together to develop a delivery plan for the platelets so the patient did not have to go to a larger center away from their home to receive the blood
Specific Purpose Statement: To inform the audience about the criteria for becoming a blood donor
I will be investigating Human Blood as my specific tissue and giving an overview on the location, characteristics, and the benefits it has to the human body. Blood is extracellular matrix that is consists of plasma, red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells. Blood is located within the capillaries/veins/arteries of the human body, which are blood vessels that run through the entire body. These blood vessels allow the blood to flow smoothly and quickly from the heart to distinct parts of the human body. The unique parts of human blood all work together for a purpose: the Red Blood Cells(erythrocytes) transports oxygen throughout the body, White Blood Cells(leukocytes) play a part in the bodies immune system, Platelets(thrombocytes) assist in creating scabs,