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Marine Corps Leadership Principles
and Traits
- Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
- Be technically and tactically proficient.
- Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates.
- Make sound and timely decisions.
- Set the example.
- Know your Marines and look out for their welfare.
- Keep your Marines informed.
- Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions.
- Ensure assigned tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.
- Train your Marines as a team.
- Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities.
Marine Corps Leadership Traits
- Dependability
- The certainty of proper performance of duty.
- Bearing
- Creating a favorable impression in carriage, appearance and personalconduct
at all times.
- Courage
- The mental quality that recognizes fear of danger or criticism, but enables
a man to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.
- Decisiveness
- Ability to make decisions promptly and to announce them in clear, forceful
manner.
- Endurance
- The mental and physical stamina measured by the ability to withstand
pain, fatigue, stress and hardship.
- Enthusiasm
- The display of sincere interest and exuberance in the performance of
duty.
- Initiative
- Taking action in the absence of orders.
- Integrity
- Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principles; includes
the qualities of truthfulness and honesty.
- Judgment
- The ability to weigh facts and possible solutions on which to base sound
decisions.
- Justice
- Giving reward and punishment according to merits of the case in question.
The ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments impartially
and consistently.
- Knowledge
- Understanding of a science or an art. The range of one's information,
including professional knowledge and an understanding of your Marines.
- Tact
- The ability to deal with others without creating offense.
- Unselfishness
- Avoidance of providing for one's own comfort and personal advancement
at the expense of others.
- Loyalty
- The quality of faithfulness to country, the Corps, the unit, to one's
seniors, subordinates and peers.
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