The Importance Of Accountability In The Military

Accountability - noun- Being responsible or liable for someone or something at the state of event and or situation.

Accountability is defined as "A is accountable to B when A is obliged to inform B about A’s (past or future) actions and decisions, to justify them, and to suffer punishment in the case of eventual misconduct". In leadership roles, accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions, products regarding medications that the warriors are on, the everyday decisions that soldiers make, and policies such as AR’s including the administration, governance and implementation within the scope of the role or employment position and encompassing the obligation to report, explain and be answerable for resulting
consequences.
Warrior Transition Unit accountability is critical in the event or emergency of a WTU warrior one who takes responsibility for those who works under his or her authority needs to have accountability at all times.
So, in the spirit of safety and wellness, and out of concern for each and every member of the Warrior Transition Unit command Soldiers assigned to a WTU are tasked with one single mission: to heal. Ensuring Soldiers stay on task is where the cadre comes in making contact with Soldiers everyday to keep accountability and make sure they make it to all their appointments. It is a sustainable system wherein wounded, injured and ill Soldiers can continue medical treatment and rehabilitate in a sufficiently and in a timely manner to prepare them for a successful return to duty or transition to their homes and communities.
The Warrior Transition Unit is essential to the well being of a soldier it establishes an integrated and comprehensive continuum of care and services for Warriors in Transition who are receiving treatment at Army medical treatment facilities. The Warrior Transition Unit is the centerpiece of the Army’s new Soldier-centric health care system wherein every Warrior in Transition and Family member is supported by a triad—a squad leader, a primary care manager and a nurse case manager. The triad’s purpose is to enable Soldiers to complete their mission—the mission to
heal.
WTU has created a system that is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. This combination of organizations and continuum of care enable the Army to conserve its most important resource: Soldiers. Leadership underpins these critical efforts through accountability, responsibility, and respect. When a soldier arrives at the WTU, the mission becomes one of healing. To ensure this the physician, nurse and case manager focus on treatment while the cadre focuses on leadership, accountability and life support. It is vitally important that cadre be able to reach all soldiers.
Being a soldier in the Warrior Transition Unit myself we often face many issues or stumbling blocks in life. We are on so many different medications that are usually narcotics and occasionally mixing with alcohol our judgment becomes a little impaired that we can not function properly. By having someone call in on the weekend you than know that they have survived another day. A lot of soldiers look at this as if we are being treated as if we are children but it is more beneficial than they realize. This is a way to prevent suicide which tends to be a pattern displayed among wounded soldiers. When soldiers are injured and no longer able to perform their duty in the United States Army as normal tend to believe that life isn’t going to be the same than leans toward the option of suicide. Cadre is trying to prevent this from happening to warrior transition soldiers or any soldier. So, that is why the cadre pushes the issue of accountability and knowing where the warriors are at all times which is vital and essential to the everyday mission.
Taking care of soldiers is a tradition as old as the Army itself. It now allows better communication between cadre and their soldiers.