Accountability in the Military

From the top to the bottom, how can you plan for an action if you do not even know where all of your troops are? What happens when you conduct a movement and realize that you just left 5 people behind?

The United States Army requires that all personnel and soldiers be accountable for themselves, their equipment and at times their fellow soldiers. The level of accountability that you have generally increases with rank, responsibility and/or authority. While they are related, both responsibility and accountability differ from authority in the respect that authority can be delegated, while both accountability and responsibility are universal and cannot be.

Keeping accountability of not only people, but equipment also is important. In the military what does accountability mean? (DOD) The obligation imposed by law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person...

I will never leave a fallen comrade. One of the United States military's biggest concerns is to never leave a man behind, dead or alive. It is perhaps this knowledge that they will never be left which keeps many troops confident in their job. How hard would you fight if you knew that your life was expendable and should you go missing, you would be written off and forgotten?

Within such organizations, decision making is typically top-down in character. There is an interactiverelationship between strong levels of organizational commitment and reliability in "being on time". It hasbeen found that strong commitment is associated with low levels of absenteeism, tardiness, and voluntary turnover. Third, there are the mission critical functions and objectives of the organization