Usmc Haircut Regulation

Topics: Why is personal appearance is important to the United States Marine Corps, why is it important to you as a marine, and why is integrity is important to the United States Marine Corps?

Personal appearance is important for the United States Marine Corps because of a number of factor, ranging from professional character, projection of ethics, self-presentation, and sense of discipline. All the factors are not uniquely or solely important to the Marine Corps, in contrary it’s a common trend among the most successful organization in the world whether they are civilian or not.

Professional character is factorial because the Corps has held its marines to the highest standard, whether it is training or instillation of the leadership principles: Bearing, Courage, Decisiveness, Endurance, Enthusiasm and more. Thus these standards must be shown through the personal appearance of an individual considered to be an active duty or reserve marine, whether they are enlisted personnel or higher ranking officer. Accountability is important to professional character because a professional is responsible for the completion of assigned tasks and duties. Organization helps an individual complete responsibilities and meet time deadlines. Proper dress allows one to project the correct image for a company. Etiquette and respect for the rights and needs of others is important to professional character as well. Poise under pressure and remaining calm through stress are also professional attributes. The Marine Corps set forth ample amount of goals when it comes professionalism for a lot of valuable reason. One of these reason is that a marine’s professional character is what is going estimate, in opaque and measurable form, how reliable and how much of a leader that marine can be.

Linda Elder an American educational psychologist, author and president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking, currently an executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking, best known for her work on critical thinking development and thoughts. She defines ethics as a set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures. Projection of ethics is important to the United States Marine Corps because of the fact that it doesn’t matter how much training a marine have been through, how many ethics and leadership classes that marine have completed, or how many achievements he has completed if one cannot look at them and be able to see or sense all these training, classes, and achievements at work through the individual one might find or choose to think that the marine has completed but has not learn or retain any of the knowledge supposedly acquired through countless training. An example would the one of an outstanding marine caporal who hold an off scale record of ribbon, training and education certificates, but fails to comply to the corps’ grooming standards. His appearance now does not only show a disregard the ethics and principles set forth by the marine corps, but also a lack of compliance to the laws and regulations that he swore under oath to obey at all time. Therefor such image projection of the marine tells one that although he has held an outstanding record in the past, this marine no longer the same attitude and ethics, in that case he is no longer as reliable as its records indicated.

Self-presentation is to the Marine Corps not only an aspect of our lives, it is also a very important one.  Our success at leading others to believe we possess various characteristics has a profound influence on our outcomes in life.  Who we marry, who our friends are, whether we get ahead at work, and many other outcomes depend, to a great extent, on our ability to convince people that we are worthy of their love, their friendship, their trust, and their respect.

Integrity is important in the marine corps because it hold the key to trust and reliability. By definition Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. It is generally a personal choice to uphold oneself to consistent moral and ethical standards One essential aspect of a consistent ethical behavior in the corps is its avoidance of any unwarranted exceptions for a particular person or group, especially the person or group that holds such behavior. In law, this principle of universal application requires that even those in positions of official power be subject to the same laws as pertain to their fellow citizens. In personal ethics, this principle requires that one should not act according to any rule that one would not wish to see universally followed. For example, one should not steal unless one would want to live in a world in which everyone was a thief.

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