Importance Of Military Ethics Policies And Procedures

1. How do you formulate, evaluate, monitor and enforce USAF ethics policies and procedures?

It starts with setting the right example and understanding the importance of USAF ethics policies and procedures. Open discussion and creating a culture of acceptance is very important in order to formulate, evaluate, monitor and enforce ethics policies. As military service members, we must absolutely adhere to higher standards than individuals the civilian world because standards, conduct, performance and self-discipline is what makes us the greatest power in the world. To me, it all starts with accountability and understanding that each and every member must be honest, loyal, and self-disciplined to make the right decisions based on established policies and procedures. The enforcement of ethics policies and procedures are inherent to establishing a culture of responsibility and respect for others. Ethics policies should guide you in your decision making whether it’s in personal relationships, duty performance, financial responsibility, political activities, and even in the free exercise of religion and religious accommodation. These policies and procedures are inherent in everything we do and how we conduct ourselves as citizens and airmen.

Also, our ethics policies and procedures serve as a code of how we should behave and they act as central guides to support day-to-day decision making. Whether it’s the Core Values, Code of Conduct or the Enlisted Force Structure; these documents or guides are in place to clarify our service’s values and principles while also linking them with basic standards of personal conduct. This guides offer all Airmen a tool to encourage discussions and even assist in dealing with ethical dilemmas. The...

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...in the decision. Thus, it became very clear over a few months’ time that less and less of these stakeholders were willing to augment mission operations to fill critically needed positions as we transformed into full-spectrum cyberspace operations.

Second, sometimes I struggle with ethical dilemmas with respect to the roles of cyber operators and cyber analysts. As we forged into a transformation within the unit, we had to distinguish the roles of each position. Having been an operator for numerous years at the unit, I was forced to choose between two alternatives that I thought that both favored the new 1B4s vice the intelligence analysts. Although believing that both alternatives were less than favorable, my ethical behaviors and leadership demonstrated favoritism towards my AFSC which totally goes against helping to create and ethically minded organization.