In his book The Leader's Guide to Storytelling, Stephen Denning identifies the three basic components of a genuinely ethical community. These include: trust (a general expectation that members will be ethical with one another), loyalty (an acceptance of the need to not breach that trust and fulfill related duties) and solidarity (caring for others and being ready to act on their behalf, even if there's conflict with personal interests).
With my organization, the Core Values of Integrity First and Service Before Self match up well to the all of the components in one aspect or another. There is a general expectation of honesty among people that join the service, and to paraphrase some thought from my commander, he implicitly trusts anyone he works with unless they give him reason not to. In the even that people are caught lying about shortcomings, problems, accomplishment of tasks or otherwise, there are usually consequences. In short, the value of integrity creates a general expectation and climate of ethics (trust), and creates an obligation to maintain trust and to do their job (loyalty).
On the note of Service Before Self, this exemplifies the overall values of doing good work, taking care of the mission, and taking care of your people before your own needs. Perhaps one would rather head home right on time and let things slide until the morning, or they'd rather pass a task on to someone else because they don't feel like doing it. But, by undertaking service before self and acting in solidarity, they get out their with their guys and stay a little later, or they help out with the workload so everyone has a fair share. They live out the adage of "mission first, people always."
If values are ever lacking, it is usually within sub-organizations such as bases or individual squadrons. Within the group that my squadron falls under, I would think we could
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