Importance of Accountability

No matter what you do in life whether it is being a teacher, cop, secretary, forensic scientist, or in my case, Marine, you will always find one thing in common. Within all of these jobs you will find that accountability is very important. You will also find that within keeping accountability you will not succeed. Accountability is knowing the amount of items or people in which you are responsible for. Accountability is also knowing where the items and people are at all times. While knowing where everything and everyone is, you also need to keep record of everything. All the aspects of accountability are important because without it things would be in chaos. The way I am going to explain the importance of accountability will be through my experience in the Marine Corps.
While in the Marine Corps there are multiple ways to have accountability. I believe that it is one of the most important jobs to keep accountability because we go to war and people’s lives are in our hands. Also, we use the government’s money whether it be on a marine or on gear. If we do not take accountability seriously, we could end up losing a lot of money. You can have accountability of your units gear, your personal gear, furniture, and can have accountability of your marines.
One way a Marine is accountable is for their gear. Accountability of you gear is very important because you are responsible for it. Whether you are signing it out for yourself, giving it to other people, or simply responsible for just knowing where it is. Without accountability of your stuff, you will be responsible for replacing it. If you do not stay accountable you may have to order more for your command. When that happens you will be wasting money. To keep this from happening you could have just had accountability of it in the first place. If you are a supply Marine you need to have accountability of the gear you have in the shop. The reason being is so you know what you can issue out and what you need to