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20-721: Accomplished supervisory or non-supervisory duties in an exemplary manner, setting a record of achievement, and inspiring others to improve the quantity and quality of their work. Exhibited unusual courage or competence in an emergency, while performing assigned duties, resulting in direct benefit to the Government or its personnel. Rendered professional or public relations service of a unique or distinctive character. Demonstrated unusual initiative and skill in devising new and improved equipment, work methods, and procedures; inventions resulting in substantial savings in expenses such as manpower, time, space, and materials, or improved safety or health of

40-442: A clear objective will typically possess, as a whole, better morale than one without. Historically, elite military units such as special operations forces have "high morale" due to their training and pride in their unit. When a unit's morale is said to be "depleted", it means it is close to "crack and surrender". It is well worth noting that generally speaking, most commanders do not look at the morale of specific individuals but rather

60-399: A group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose". . With good morale, a force will be less likely to give up or surrender. Morale is usually assessed at a collective, rather than an individual level. In wartime, civilian morale is also important. Military history experts have not agreed on a precise definition of "morale". Clausewitz's comments on

80-499: A quarter of the [US] Army's officers and enlisted soldiers believe the nation's largest military branch is headed in the right direction." The "... most common reasons cited for the bleak outlook were "ineffective leaders at senior levels," a fear of losing the best and the brightest after a decade of war, and the perception, especially among senior enlisted soldiers, that "the Army is too soft" and lacks sufficient discipline." Employee morale

100-434: A soldier is recruited, clothed, armed and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. Military morale is in a large sense inseparable from civilian morale because each reacts upon the other and both are in large measure based on fidelity to a cause. But there is a certain kind of morale that is distinctly military. It begins with

120-511: Is proven to have a direct effect on productivity ; it is one of the corner stones of business . Military Supply Chain Management Military supply-chain management is a cross-functional approach to procuring , producing and delivering products and services for military materiel applications. Military supply chain management includes sub-suppliers, suppliers, internal information and funds flow . A supply involves

140-401: Is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship. Morale is often referenced by authority figures as a generic value judgment of the willpower , obedience , and self-discipline of a group tasked with performing duties assigned by a superior . According to Alexander H. Leighton , "morale is the capacity of

160-504: Is the process by which an item of supply is controlled within the supply system, including requisitioning, receipt, storage, stock control , shipment , disposition, identification , and accounting . A supply point is a location where supplies, services and materials are located and issued. As a single moving entity, a supply point location is temporary and mobile, normally being occupied for up to 72 hours. Sub-suppliers are those suppliers who provide materials to other suppliers within

180-426: The procurement , distribution , maintenance while in storage , and salvage of supplies, including the determination of kind and quantity of supplies. United States Department of Defense definitions refer to a "producer phase" and a "consumer phase": A supply chain is a set of linked activities associated with providing material from a raw material stage to an end user as a finished good . Supply control

200-505: The "fighting spirit" of squadrons, divisions, battalions, ships, etc. Clausewitz stresses the importance of morale and will for both the soldier and the commander. The soldier's first requirement is moral and physical courage , both the acceptance of responsibility and the suppression of fear . In order to survive the horror of combat[,] he must have an invincible martial spirit, which can be attained only through military victory and hardship. The soldier has but one purpose: "The end for which

220-499: The basis of every leader's calculations. To sustain the moral[e] of his own men; to break down the moral[e] of his enemy—these are the great objects which, if he be ambitious of success, he must always keep in view. During the proceedings of the Southborough Committee inquiry concerning shellshock , testimony by Colonel J. F. C. Fuller defined morale as "the acquired quality which in highly-trained troops counterbalances

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240-448: The best in the army, his company the best in the regiment, his squad the best in the company, and that he himself is the best blankety-blank soldier man in the outfit." In military science , there are two meanings to morale: individual perseverance and unit cohesion . Morale is often highly dependent on soldier effectiveness, health, comfort, safety, and belief-in-purpose, and therefore an army with good supply lines , sound air cover, and

260-441: The concept of logistic management and supply-chain management is the level of information gathered, processes, analysed and used for decision making. An SCM-based organization not only having concerns with its immediate clients but also handles and forecasts the factors affecting directly or indirectly their supplier or suppliers or on their client or clients. If we exclude this information part out of supply chain model then we can see

280-422: The individual's confidence and pride in himself, his comrades, his leaders; the unit's pride in its own will; these basic things, supplemented by intelligent welfare and recreation measures and brought to life by a spirit of mutual respect and co-operation, combine to weld a seasoned fighting force capable of defending the nation. In August 2012, an article entitled "Army morale declines in survey" states that "only

300-399: The influence of the instinct of self-preservation." Of Henderson's "moral fear", the soldier's sense of duty, it is contrasted with the fear of death, and to control one's troops required of a commander more than authoritarian force, but other strategies to be deployed to that purpose. An American general defined morale as "when a soldier thinks his army is the best in the world, his regiment

320-401: The logistic management part of the business. Unlike standard supply-chain management practices world-wide, some major concepts are not supported in the military domain. For example, the " just-in-time " (JIT) model emphasizes holding less (or no) inventory, whereas in military supply chains, due to the high costs of a stock-out (potentially placing lives in danger), keeping huge inventory is

340-415: The soldier's attitude toward duty . It develops with the soldier's command over himself. It is a spirit that becomes dominant in the individual and also in the group. Whether the soldier has physical comforts or suffers physical hardships may be a factor but is seldom the determining factor in making or unmaking his morale. A cause known and believed in; knowledge that substantial justice governs discipline;

360-430: The subject have been described as "deliberately vague" by modern scholars. George Francis Robert Henderson , a widely read military author of the pre- World War I era, viewed morale as related to the instinct of self-preservation, the suppression of which he said was "the moral fear of turning back", in other words, that a willingness to fight was bolstered by a strong sense of duty. Henderson wrote: Human nature must be

380-845: The supply chain. In other supply chain management contexts they are referred to by tier, second-tier suppliers serving first-tier suppliers, etc. The European Union refers to sub-suppliers in its objective to improve cross-border market access in the defence sector. Military logistics is the science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of armed forces . In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of military operations that deal with: a. design and development , acquisition , storage , movement , distribution , maintenance , evacuation , and disposition of materiel; b. movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; c. acquisition or construction , maintenance, operation and disposition of facilities; and d. acquisition or furnishing of services. The main difference between

400-547: The workforce; improving the morale of employees in a unit which resulted in improvement of work performance and esprit de corps . This award may also be given at the time of retirement. This United States military article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to orders , decorations , and medals is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Esprit de corps Morale ( / m ə ˈ r æ l / mə- RAL , UK also /- ˈ r ɑː l / -⁠ RAHL )

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