Personal Narrative-Lack Of Integrity

PT today was outstanding. And halfway through I was exhausted and feeling sorry for myself. When I finally hit the halfway point, I was excited I was going to get a breather before the run back. I was getting annoyed when we started doing some auxiliary exercises but I dug a little deeper into my emotions and started thinking why I was get annoyed. It wasn't because we were doing auxiliary exercises it was because we normally don't do that sort of thing and it took the presence of a LTC to incite this mentality of going the extra mile. The definition of Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking and this got me to thinking so this shows the appearance of lack of integrity and it bothered me because I know as a unit, we have integrity. I find it hard to
I can't articulate my words very well in one to one conversation, and this spurred me feeling the need to write this letter. I was talking with some of the other Joes about this morning’s PT and for the most part people liked it. Something one of my high school coaches told me that really stuck with me throughout my life was about performance. He said, he didn't care if I was the best player or the worst player, but only that I was consistent with what I brought to the table. I think as a unit we need to come together and decide what we want to consistently bring to the table. I'm not saying that we can't have fun days because I think that it brings us together and gives us the occasional much needed morale boost. But I am saying that if we all set the mindset that we are going to put forth everything we have consistently we can see something really special. The bonding of our comrades through blood, sweat, and the birth of cohesion that other units would be jealous of. We can't always control what happens throughout the day and I would even venture to say PT is the really the only thing that we can control. So why not put forth our best foot and venture to always have a good