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Importance of Accountability

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No matter what you do in life whether it is being a teacher, cop, secretary, forensic scientist, or in my case, Marine, you will always find one thing in common. Within all of these jobs you will find that accountability is very important. You will also find that within keeping accountability you will not succeed. Accountability is knowing the amount of items or people in which you are responsible for. Accountability is also knowing where the items and people are at all times. While knowing where everything and everyone is, you also need to keep record of everything. All the aspects of accountability are important because without it things would be in chaos. The way I am going to explain the importance of accountability will be through my …show more content…

That includes keeping it in good condition and not losing it. If you lose this gear you will end up paying for it. This gear isn’t cheap so having accountability is important. If you are the one issuing out the gear you need to make sure it gets returned when it needs to. This means keeping signatures on file. Also, keeping accountability of everything you have. When you are doing inventory on your gear you will know if something is missing if the numbers don’t add up. That is one time that keeping record of things will come in handy. You can look back to see if someone issued it out and who it was. Another time that keeping everything on record will be when someone tries to say they returned there gear but yet you do not have it. You can go back and make sure they signed their name when they brought the gear back. If they did, it will end up being your loss. If they did not, it will end up being there loss. When you are a Marine who is single or does not have a child, you live in the barracks. When you live in the barracks things are provided to you. Such as a bed and dressers. To some it may not seem like something you are responsible for. That is not the case. When you move out of that room or that barracks that stuff still needs to be there in good condition. This is also accountability. You may bring the chair that is provided to you into someone else’s room to sit on while playing video

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