SNCOA Test 2 questions with correct answers

Purpose as a profession CORRECT ANSWER serve society by effectively delivering a necessary and useful service Each profession establishes CORRECT ANSWER a unique subculture that distinguishes practitioners from the society they serve (and other professions) while supporting and enhancing society have unique standards of performance and codes of ethics to create and maintain their effectiveness Professions also CORRECT ANSWER develop particular vocabularies/terms, establish journals, and sometimes adopt distinct forms of dress (lab coats, police uniforms, etc) Military Professions differ in two ways: CORRECT ANSWER consequences of failure in the POA for both individual members of the Armed Forces and the Nation are more serious than those in any other profession Military serves a collective client, the nation Examples of responsibilities CORRECT ANSWER include recovery of a community or country devastated by natural disaster (operation unified response-Haiti), the defeat of enemy forces (operation Iraqi freedom) or the security of the nation (operation noble eagle) which failure could result in catastrophe for the nation Second difference for military profession CORRECT ANSWER concerns individual members. We take our oaths of office which includes understanding of 'unlimited liability' clause where its expected its members lay down their lives for their friends, family, or freedoms. Risking thei