unacceptable. It is my duty as a soldier to account for myself and for my subordinates. The DOD definition of accountability is "The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property‚ documents‚ or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property‚ documents‚ or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records‚ while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody‚ care‚ and
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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
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definition of accountability and responsibility while explaining the importance of maintaining positive physical security of a Common Access Card (CAC) which is a piece of the “intelligence puzzle” and vital to Operational Security (OPSEC). The paper will give examples of how the lack of positive security of a CAC can‚ not only‚ diminish a soldier’s ability to perform daily tasks‚ but also limit their access to information pertinent to the mission at hand. Why is accountability important to the
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between Courts and citizens are essential to constitutionalism. Thus accountability must be comprehensive to include not only the politicians‚ but also the bureaucrats‚ judges and everyone invested with public power. Accountability is the sine quo non of democracy. Transparency facilitates accountability. No public institution or public functionary is exempted from accountability although the manner of enforcing accountability may vary with the nature of office and the functions discharged by the
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The purpose of this directive is to ensure proper accountability of sensitive items which include: COMSEC equipment‚ Night Vision Devices (NVDs)‚ Global Positioning Devices (GPDs)‚ weapons‚ munitions‚ and any other item designated by a Controlled Inventory Identification Code (CIIC). This equipment is critical to our war fighting capability and highly desired by criminal and terrorist elements. It is imperative that commanders and leaders at all levels of command manage the control of sensitive items
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Responsibility and accountability go hand in hand in everyday life and situations that may occur. How would someone use responsibility and accountability in life? There are multiple ways you could use either of the two. Apart of growing and becoming a mature adult is learning responsibility as well as accountability. If you fail to take responsibility for your actions or to be held accountable for something you may have done then you may never catch the full grasp of being a mature adult. To define
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The Marine Corps has adopted a system of serializing gear in order to keep records of where it’s gear is issued. The units and individual Marines to whom this gear is issued are held accountable for maintaining them. Losing a piece of gear could have repercussions ranging from payment for lost property to legal action. In addition to these are other consequences. There is a quote by Benjamin Franklin that reads‚ ‘time is money.’ In the armed services‚ a loss of time could mean a loss of life
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GEAR ACCOUNTABILITY There are many important reasons to be checking your gear constantly to keep proper issued gear accountability as an Infantryman in the United States Marine Corps or any other MOS in the Marine Corps as well. It is the Marines responsibility to always have proper issued gear accountability at all times. Whenever you have a pause through your patrols‚ raids‚ or movements the Marines always want to take a quick check to make sure that you have your issued or serialized gear
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Professional Accountability‚ Standards of Practice‚ Professional Development. Introduction Standards of practice and professional accountability are inextricably woven together. Standards describe the "what and how" of delivering nursing care. Professional accountability is creating the standards‚ meeting those standards‚ holding peers to the standards‚ and revising the standards when needed. As your e-text describes "Standards of practice are the "what" and describe a competent level of
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Academic Achievement Relative to my Individual Accountability Jerry Philips GEN 200 May 15‚ 2013 JOSEPH BALISTOCKY Academic Achievement Relative to my Individual Accountability My personal opinion on personal responsibility and its relation to my academic achievement is simply doing things right and doing the right things in accordance to the system and processes of all aspects of life‚ having the right mindset on the reason as to why my academic achievement is important to me as a student
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