NCO - Know Yourself

As a noncommissioned officer your job requires you to accomplish tasks with your soldiers and your equipment under the most difficult conditions: uncertainty, confusion, stress and fear of battle. In those challenging circumstances your courage and that of your soldiers will be tested to the limit. You can also expect your own fear and that of your soldiers to complicate getting things done in crisis situations – in battle, in military operations other than war, or in training. But be positive, especially with your soldiers and always exhibit the determination to prevail no matter what the odds or how desperate the situation may be.