Military Review English Edition September-October 2013 | Page 9
IDENTITY CORROSION
the profession, including trust, an educational requirement. ADRP 1, The Army Profession, is the doctrinal manual for the profession and ensures the Army speaks with one voice across all developmental programs. The Army should leverage gaming concepts to advance the values of the profession. While some first-person, game-context, ethical-training modules such as the CAPE’s Moral Combat exist, the Army should advance this virtual construct further.35 It requires only incremental improvements of scenarios to fuse ethics education with other simulations like those used for combat vehicles and small unit training. Finally, Army senior leaders should direct scenario improvements that force Army professionals to make values-based decisions within realistic collective training events at all levels. If done correctly, one can envision after action review discussions at the Army’s combat training centers focused not just on competent tactics, but also on sound ethical decisions that enhance the future of the profession. By incorporating such methods, the Army can begin to caulk the cracks in the bedrock of trust and ensure they never reappear.
not view themselves as professionals.37 Now, more than ten years later, those same captains and majors of 2000 are the lieutenant colonels and colonels of 2013. By the Army’s definition they are the stewards of the profession, but the Army has done little in the past ten years to increase this cohort’s sense of professional identity. Beyond one year of study at the Command and General Staff College, which included only one course on leadership, this group received little, if any, formal education about profession identity. The focus on the wars has created some of this problem. Anecdotal evidence suggests this shortcoming is contributing to corrosion of identity. One only
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