The Importance of the Role of the Human Resources Sergeant in the Profession of Arms

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STUDENT WRITING ASSIGNMENT # 1 The Importance of the Role of the Human Resources Sergeant in The Profession of Arms SSG Xavier A. Loor 42A Advance Leaders Course, Class 020-13 SGL: SFC Marcus Lee 07 May 2013 To establish the importance of the role of the Human Resources (HR) Sergeant in The Profession of Arms we first need to answer three questions: 1. What is a professional?; 2. What is an HR professional?; and 3. What is The Profession of Arms? Only after knowing these concepts we will be able to establish the importance of the relationship between the HR professional and The Profession of Arms, what is needed from the HR professional to validate this importance, and what can we, as HR leaders, do to prepare ourselves and our Soldiers for the now and the future. The first question I will answer to establish the importance of the HR professional is the one about the definition of The Profession of Arms. In accordance to the Army White Paper, The Profession of Arms (08 December 2013), The Profession of Arms is “a vocation comprised of experts certified in the ethical application of land combat power, serving under civilian authority, entrusted to defend the Constitution and the rights and interests of the American people.” The HR professional as a member of the Army abides by this concept, but as a member of the Army’s Force Sustainment Division (FSD) there is the aggregate responsibility of making sure that all other members of the Army are free of distractions and/or worries on their daily activities, so that they can focus full time on achieving those requirements needed to defend our country. This takes us to the second question of defining what a professional is. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a professional is “characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a

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