Air Force Ethical Framework

To define ethical framework, I feel it should be broken down to ethics and framework. According to Bonde and Firenze, (2016) “Ethics provides a set of standards for behavior that helps us decide how we ought to act in a range of situations. In a sense, we can say that ethics is all about making choices, and about providing reasons why we should make these choices” (. p 1). Framework is the structure of something, it’s the ideas or facts that support things. When putting the words back together it defines ethical framework as the ideas and facts that make people do or chose the right thing to do. I feel that people use their ethical framework in almost all decisions that they make. It’s the voice inside of people’s head telling them not to
I could have used the United States Air Force core values of integrity first, service before self, and excellence, but I do not feel that it fully answers this question. Service before self has nothing to do with why I do not cheat lie or steal. Before a few days ago, I would have put that I try to do what is socially right Its pretty simple, but I feel that it’s what I do. I was in a class the other day to get training on quality assurance for training systems, it covers the contracting side of hiring companies to do things for the Department of Defense. Ethics was brought up in the class, it stated that the DOD rules for ethics in contracting is integrity, honesty and fairness. As soon as I seen it, I thought about this class and how it explains my framework better than I can. Integrity is a big thing with me because of the Air Force, it has become a part of me these past nine years. I feel that honesty falls under integrity, but I like that it reinforces the importance of honesty. Fairness is an important thing in ethics, and it defiantly has an effect on how I make my decisions. I try to be fair to people because it always makes me think about how I would feel in their
My parents have had a huge impact on how I live my life, I believe that I had good parents that tried hard to raise me right. I know that I am a product of them and how they raised me. They were the first people that taught me right from wrong and it has stuck with me. My father was huge on honesty, he did not like people lying. That has stuck with me and turned into me not liking people that lie. I was not fully raised in a church, but I did occasionally go and had relatives that went every weekend. My mom liked to go, but she did not take me on a regular basis. I do not consider myself a religious person nor do I really know what I believe when it comes to religion, but I do feel that the amount of time that I spent going to church has had an effect on my ethical framework. Experiences in life seem like they have effects of how I view what is fair or gives me the perspective of how I would feel if I was in the position of another person. When I make a decision that has an effect on a person, it makes me remember a time that I was in a similar position and leads my decision to try to not make it harder on that person. The Air Force is a huge part of my life, I have been in for nine years now. It’s getting to the point where I do not know anything else. The Air Forces pushes its core values, and they have really become a part of my everyday life. When I first joined and