Nesting the Mission & Vision The ability for the Marine Corps to accomplish its mission is predicated on subordinate organizations (commands) establishing and executing a mission that syncs with the greater whole. An implied task from the above Marine Corps mission statement, is to take young civilians from innumerable cultural and education backgrounds and develop them into a person of character that is capable of demonstrating initiative and rational thought in the most stressful situation known to man - War. In addition to providing basic level job skills to entry-level Marines, our organization must enhance the personal development of these future warfighters who will be called upon to make difficult decisions in extreme situations. Critical …show more content…
This frame of reference provides the Marines with a baseline of knowledge that they can then utilize when making decisions. In other words, we can provide the tools for their tool box with job training, but critical thinking will enable them to select the right tool at the right time for the job. So as an organization, we must not be satisfied with just providing instruction on how to do their job in the Marine Corps, it is imperative that we also strive to enhance the Marine’s ability think about innovative ways to accomplish tasks. Too often, Marines may become satisfied with doing things “the way they have always been done”, but this line of thinking fails to foster new ideas. The critical thinker can find a solution to a problem by removing personal bias, thinking abstractly and looking at the problem from angles not previously …show more content…
This reference point will provide the Marine a common understanding of what the organization views as the “what”. The self-reflection activities will consist of giving the Marines a simi-complex scenario involving topics from the prior discussion. The Marines will then think about how they would solve them problem. The instructor will ask probing questions that will cause the Marine to examine how they came up with their solution. The instructor will not tell the Marine that their “how” is flawed, but only insist that the Marine is able to determine how they arrived at their answer. This method of providing the Marine the opportunity to understand how they were able to arrive at a decision by utilizing previously gained knowledge and applying it towards the solution of a problem will illustrate the critical thinking process. Through repetition, I hypothesize that critical thinking will become as habitual as the decision making process that occurs when the Marine is solving simple arithmetic. A consideration for the organization is that the scenarios that we present the Marines should be constructed with thoughts given to the current development level of the Marines. If we can shape the scenarios to initially cover situations likely to be experienced by Marines of