WEBVTT 00:01.006 --> 00:03.923 (melancholy music) 00:18.520 --> 00:20.530 - [Narrator] The army profession is a trusted 00:20.530 --> 00:25.430 and disciplined vocation serving under civilian authority 00:25.430 --> 00:28.773 to defend the Constitution and the American people. 00:29.870 --> 00:34.000 We provide a unique and vital service to society 00:34.000 --> 00:37.020 by developing and applying expert knowledge 00:37.020 --> 00:38.453 in the field of land power. 00:39.516 --> 00:41.110 - What the Army demonstrates is the essential 00:41.110 --> 00:44.440 characteristics of trust, honorable service, 00:44.440 --> 00:47.850 military expertise, esprit de corps, and stewardship. 00:47.850 --> 00:49.907 It builds trust with the American people 00:49.907 --> 00:52.920 and our civilian leaders that we're performing 00:52.920 --> 00:54.853 our mission in the right way. 00:55.823 --> 00:58.300 (patriotic music) 00:58.300 --> 01:01.010 - [Narrator] Our relationship with the American people 01:01.010 --> 01:03.880 is built on a foundation of trust, 01:03.880 --> 01:08.640 continuously reinforced as we contribute honorable service, 01:08.640 --> 01:11.500 demonstrate military expertise, 01:11.500 --> 01:13.760 provide faithful stewardship, 01:13.760 --> 01:17.330 and exhibit courageous esprit de corps. 01:17.330 --> 01:19.930 These are the essential characteristics 01:19.930 --> 01:21.313 of the army profession. 01:24.960 --> 01:28.240 Trust is the bedrock of our profession. 01:28.240 --> 01:31.190 External trust is the confidence and faith 01:31.190 --> 01:34.740 the American people have in the Army to serve the nation 01:34.740 --> 01:39.740 in the right way, ethically, effectively, and efficiently. 01:41.360 --> 01:43.920 - The American people depend on the Army 01:45.850 --> 01:48.150 to win its nation's wars. 01:48.150 --> 01:50.870 - They see an American soldier and they have an expectation 01:50.870 --> 01:52.570 and it's our job to live up to it. 01:53.820 --> 01:57.410 - We take an oath, that oath is to again protect 01:57.410 --> 01:59.480 the Constitution of the United States, 01:59.480 --> 02:02.343 whether you're in uniform or a government civilian. 02:03.930 --> 02:07.170 - Stressing the army profession externally is about 02:07.170 --> 02:10.410 letting the public know that we're gonna take the trust 02:10.410 --> 02:15.410 that you put in us and placed in us and freely give to us, 02:16.050 --> 02:21.050 and use it wisely and employ it to not only make the army 02:21.630 --> 02:25.130 better, but realistically to make our nation better 02:25.130 --> 02:27.383 and make America better. 02:31.530 --> 02:35.170 - [Narrator] Internal trust within the army is reliance 02:35.170 --> 02:38.710 on the character, competence, and commitment of army 02:38.710 --> 02:42.973 professionals to live by and uphold the army ethic. 02:44.710 --> 02:46.880 - People want to follow people with character. 02:46.880 --> 02:48.390 Do things right every single day, 02:48.390 --> 02:49.970 even when people aren't looking. 02:49.970 --> 02:52.730 Confidence, it's what people look for and strive to be. 02:52.730 --> 02:54.490 It's what subordinates emulate 02:54.490 --> 02:56.360 in their seniors and superiors. 02:56.360 --> 02:58.760 And commitment, everybody will follow somebody that wants 02:58.760 --> 03:01.010 to drive to the end and get the mission done. 03:03.540 --> 03:06.450 - If you don't have a profession, you don't have leaders 03:06.450 --> 03:09.700 of character, then you're not gonna be able to exercise 03:09.700 --> 03:12.210 mission command and fundamentally you can't war fight 03:12.210 --> 03:13.260 if you don't have it. 03:16.530 --> 03:20.220 - We have this trust that leaders will exploit 03:20.220 --> 03:23.610 the initiative, that because they understand the mission 03:23.610 --> 03:27.500 given to them that they can direct, lead, and assist 03:27.500 --> 03:30.330 and assume some risks, allows soldiers to 03:30.330 --> 03:31.680 figure it out on their own. 03:34.700 --> 03:36.840 - The greatest way I can build trust is to be honest 03:36.840 --> 03:37.850 in words and deed. 03:37.850 --> 03:41.700 If I tell them PT's important, they expect 03:41.700 --> 03:44.913 to see me outside (laughs) the next day doing PT. 03:46.050 --> 03:51.050 - We are a family, we are a team, you will learn to trust 03:52.730 --> 03:55.640 and count on people and people are going to learn 03:55.640 --> 03:58.227 to trust and count on you. 04:02.110 --> 04:04.910 - [Narrator] Honorable service is support and defense 04:04.910 --> 04:08.300 of the Constitution, the American people, 04:08.300 --> 04:11.370 and the national interest in a manner consistent 04:11.370 --> 04:12.523 with the army ethic. 04:13.840 --> 04:16.890 - Honorable service starts from the time you take an oath 04:17.980 --> 04:19.813 to join the military. 04:23.240 --> 04:26.760 - We exist to serve the interests of the American people, 04:26.760 --> 04:28.710 to support and defend the Constitution. 04:31.810 --> 04:34.230 - Honorable service is doing the right thing even when 04:34.230 --> 04:37.160 no one is watching, doing what needs to be done without 04:37.160 --> 04:39.350 necessarily having to be asked or told, 04:39.350 --> 04:42.265 seeing what needs to be done and actually doing it. 04:42.265 --> 04:45.098 (patriotic music) 04:48.830 --> 04:52.470 - [Narrator] Military expertise is the ethical design, 04:52.470 --> 04:56.777 generation, support, and application of landpower. 04:58.460 --> 05:02.340 - It is understanding our professional body of knowledge, 05:02.340 --> 05:05.690 our doctrine, which is our professional body of knowledge. 05:05.690 --> 05:08.370 It's being able to execute the tasks that the nation 05:08.370 --> 05:10.680 expects us to be able to execute. 05:10.680 --> 05:12.840 To have an effective team in combat, you've gotta have 05:12.840 --> 05:14.690 competent leaders, you've gotta have competent soldiers, 05:14.690 --> 05:16.240 you gotta have competent units. 05:18.860 --> 05:21.680 - We develop military expertise through a very old, 05:21.680 --> 05:24.200 time-tested routine and that's practice. 05:24.200 --> 05:26.260 Readiness is one of our main responsibilities, 05:26.260 --> 05:27.470 and the Chief of Staff are the army's 05:27.470 --> 05:29.150 number one priority for us. 05:29.150 --> 05:30.870 In order to be ready, you have to practice 05:30.870 --> 05:32.800 those things that you wanna do best. 05:32.800 --> 05:34.870 The best units we have in the army do the simple things 05:34.870 --> 05:37.840 very well, and that's because they exercise those tasks 05:37.840 --> 05:40.060 that are critical for their survival on the battlefield 05:40.060 --> 05:42.460 and the means for them to win the nation's wars. 05:45.330 --> 05:47.280 - It starts with the Soldier's Creed. 05:47.280 --> 05:49.290 I'm an expert and I'm a professional. 05:49.290 --> 05:54.100 With what we do, we have to be experts at our job 05:54.100 --> 05:57.400 because when we're out on the battlefield, 05:57.400 --> 05:59.703 that's where it all comes to fruition. 06:05.220 --> 06:08.460 - [Narrator] Espirit de corps is the army's winning spirit, 06:08.460 --> 06:11.680 a collective ethos of camaraderie and cohesion 06:11.680 --> 06:12.810 within the team. 06:12.810 --> 06:15.590 It is embedded in the army culture of trust 06:15.590 --> 06:19.110 and sustained by leaders at every level. 06:19.110 --> 06:22.580 - Espirit de corps is more than the unit t-shirt 06:22.580 --> 06:24.190 that you wear for our run. 06:24.190 --> 06:26.840 Espirit de corps means belonging to something 06:26.840 --> 06:28.840 bigger than yourself. 06:28.840 --> 06:32.210 - It's a sense of belonging, a sense of pride 06:32.210 --> 06:35.590 with your fellow soldiers and your ranks, 06:35.590 --> 06:39.020 and it helps to complete the mission every day. 06:39.020 --> 06:41.240 - Building the espirit de corps into formations 06:41.240 --> 06:45.500 is an absolute combat multiplier, and when the chips 06:45.500 --> 06:48.770 are done, when the stuff gets tough, units, formations, 06:48.770 --> 06:51.660 teams, tribes that have a very strong sense of cohesion, 06:51.660 --> 06:54.320 throughout history, have always performed magnificently 06:54.320 --> 06:55.270 on the battlefield. 06:56.930 --> 06:59.910 - At the end of the day, in front of diversity, conflict, 06:59.910 --> 07:03.620 disaster, chaos, there's a semblance of calm 07:03.620 --> 07:05.960 that espirit de corps establish. 07:05.960 --> 07:09.110 You're not alone, you're going through this as a collective, 07:09.110 --> 07:11.050 not as an individual. 07:11.050 --> 07:12.900 The outcome is greater than yourself. 07:15.740 --> 07:18.440 - [Narrator] Stewardship is the responsibility of army 07:18.440 --> 07:22.350 professionals to strengthen the army as a profession, 07:22.350 --> 07:25.830 and to care for the people and other resources entrusted 07:25.830 --> 07:27.813 to them by the American people. 07:29.100 --> 07:31.620 - Now as a senior leader of the army, I have 07:31.620 --> 07:34.690 a responsibility for stewardship of the army, 07:34.690 --> 07:38.240 not only today, but for the long term. 07:38.240 --> 07:41.710 Are we investing in our junior leaders, are we making 07:41.710 --> 07:44.990 the right investment in equipment, indoctrinating concepts 07:44.990 --> 07:46.790 and all those things for the future. 07:50.990 --> 07:53.590 - Also for stewardship of our monetary resources. 07:53.590 --> 07:55.810 Our American public needs to know that we are doing 07:55.810 --> 07:59.100 everything we can to make sure that all those resources 07:59.100 --> 08:01.700 that are invested in us are spent wisely and on those 08:01.700 --> 08:04.870 capabilities that we really need to take care of those 08:04.870 --> 08:06.263 that are relying on us. 08:08.738 --> 08:11.340 - The stewardship of the army profession is much bigger 08:11.340 --> 08:14.040 than stewardship of resources. 08:14.040 --> 08:16.620 Leaders must mentor and train soldiers and army civilians 08:16.620 --> 08:19.450 to have these same set of values, to be ready to be 08:19.450 --> 08:21.990 the future leaders of our profession, and to carry it 08:21.990 --> 08:24.050 forward into the next generation. 08:27.780 --> 08:30.360 - A lot of times we tend to relate stewardship 08:30.360 --> 08:34.770 to money and finances, but in this profession it's also 08:34.770 --> 08:39.510 about being a good steward of the lives that are entrusted 08:39.510 --> 08:44.380 to us, so whether it's someone's son or daughter, 08:44.380 --> 08:47.840 or their mom or dad or sister or brother, 08:47.840 --> 08:50.820 that life is precious to those individuals 08:50.820 --> 08:55.610 so it's incumbent upon us as leaders to be good stewards 08:55.610 --> 08:57.833 of those lives that are entrusted to us. 09:06.220 --> 09:09.160 (gentle music) 09:09.160 --> 09:10.690 - [Narrator] We are not a profession 09:10.690 --> 09:13.030 merely because we say so. 09:13.030 --> 09:16.880 Consistent demonstration of the essential characteristics 09:16.880 --> 09:19.310 establishes and strengthens the army 09:19.310 --> 09:21.393 as a trusted military profession. 09:25.070 --> 09:26.877 - The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs once said, 09:26.877 --> 09:29.577 "We're professionals, not because we say we are, 09:29.577 --> 09:31.707 "but because of how we serve." 09:32.580 --> 09:34.740 What I took away from that, we can say we're professionals 09:34.740 --> 09:37.310 all day long, but people can observe us, how we serve, 09:37.310 --> 09:38.935 how we conduct ourselves. 09:38.935 --> 09:42.570 Having these principles, having a basic ethic that we live 09:42.570 --> 09:46.850 by really solidifies that term of being a professional. 09:46.850 --> 09:49.100 It's not just what we say we are, it's how we act 09:49.100 --> 09:50.750 and how we live and how we serve. 09:54.230 --> 09:57.950 - Make no doubt that the United States Military 09:57.950 --> 10:00.530 is the most lethal force on the planet. 10:00.530 --> 10:04.570 But what you get when the United States Army shows up 10:04.570 --> 10:08.100 in your country, you're not just getting a lethal force, 10:08.100 --> 10:11.180 you're getting a force that has been trained 10:11.180 --> 10:13.850 with ethical standards and discipline. 10:13.850 --> 10:18.850 It has values that we embrace and we live by, 10:19.930 --> 10:24.233 and we are here to do what is right. 10:29.491 --> 10:31.400 (upbeat music) 10:31.400 --> 10:33.130 - [Narrator] Whether it's in the honorable service 10:33.130 --> 10:35.610 of generations of battle-tried heroes, 10:35.610 --> 10:38.670 the expertise of our soldiers and civilians, 10:38.670 --> 10:41.490 the espirit de corps of storied units, 10:41.490 --> 10:45.300 or the stewardship of senior leaders, the army builds 10:45.300 --> 10:48.540 trust as a profession by accomplishing the mission 10:48.540 --> 10:52.883 in the right way, both for today and for tomorrow. 10:53.810 --> 10:57.110 The army exists as a profession for one reason. 10:57.110 --> 11:00.580 To serve the nation by supporting and defending 11:00.580 --> 11:03.630 the Constitution in a way that upholds the rights 11:03.630 --> 11:05.663 and interests of the American people. 11:07.870 --> 11:12.690 Regardless of component or cohort, we share an identity 11:12.690 --> 11:16.310 as trusted army professionals with character, 11:16.310 --> 11:18.883 competence, and commitment. 11:20.570 --> 11:23.263 We are army strong.