DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS

MARINDUQUE STATE COLLEGE ROTC UNIT

409 (MAR) CDC, 4RCDG, ARESCOM
Tanza, Boac, Marinduque

MILITARY COURTESY AND

DISCIPLINE
 CLASS RULES

• Dress Code: White round neck T-shirt and Maong

long pants.
• Microphone Device should be muted.
• No sit-in audience during class session.
• Create a quiet work place.
• Questions will be entertained after class session.
• Unnecessary use of devices, websites and other
applications during class session are prohibited.
• No eating during class session.
 SCOPE OF PRESENTATION

❑ Definition of terms
❑ Persons Entitled to Salute
❑ General Rules for Saluting
❑ When not to salute
❑ Honors to the Colors/Anthems
❑ Display of Flag
❑ Addressing the Officers
❑ Wearing of uniform
❑ Other forms of Courtesy
❑ Meaning of Military Discipline
❑ Importance of Discipline
❑ Creating a Climate for Discipline
 MILITARY COURTESY
❑ It is the act of politeness, civility and
respect.
❑It includes an essential element of a full
and proper appreciation of the rights of
others.
SALUTE

❑It is the most important and most common

form of all military courtesy.
❑The way it is executed indicates the state
of morale and discipline
 HOW TO SALUTE?

It is executed by raising the right

arm smartly until the tip of the
forefinger touches the visor of your
hat. When covered, fingers are
extended and joined palm pacing
the left forearm inclined at an angle
about 5 degrees and the right
upper arm horizontal, a person
saluting looks at the person
saluted. When the salute is
returned, he dropped the right hand
smartly to the side.
 Persons entitled to salute

▪ Commissioned Officers of the AFP

▪ Commissioned Officers of Allied

Nations

▪ High civilian officials or foreign dignitaries

during military honors
 General Rules for Saluting

a. Required on or off military installations

and on and off office hours
b. Rendered at a distance of 6 paces
c. Salute must be returned by the person
entitled to it
d. Do not salute when running
e. Never salute when smoking
f. Salute should not be executed in a
haphazard manner
 General Rules for Saluting

g. When reporting to an officer in door or out

door, a salute is rendered with a distance of
3 paces
h. Salute after a conversation.
i. When in a group, not in a formation, all
will rise and salute
j. When in formation, only the cmdr
salutes.
k. Salute is used in making courtesy
calls
When not to Salute

a. While at work
b. Indoors, except when reporting
c. Carrying articles with both hands
d. Driver of a vehicle in motion
e. When actively involved in games
F. In churches, theaters, or in public
g. When meeting a prisoner of war
HONOR TO THE COLORS/ANTHEM

▪ OUTDOOR

AT THE FIRST NOTE, ALL PERSONNEL

PRESENT WILL FACE THE SOURCE OF THE
MUSIC AND STAND AT ATTENTION RENDER
SALUTE UNTIL THE LAST NOTE OF THE MUSIC.
VEHICLES IN MOTION ARE BROUGHT TO
HALT. PERSONS RIDING IN CARS,
MOTORCYCLES WILL DISMOUNT AND SALUTE.
TROOPS ABOARD THE VEHICLE NEED NOT
EMBARK BUT SHALL REMAIN SEATED AT
ATTENTION AND DO NOT SALUTE.
HONOR TO THE COLORS/ANTHEM

▪ INDOOR

WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS

PLAYED INDOORS MILITARY PERSONNEL
WILL STAND AT ATTENTION AND FACE
THE MUSIC ON THE FLAG IF ONE IS
PRESENT, THEY WILL NOT SALUTE
UNLESS UNDERARMS.
 DISPLAY OF FLAG
▪ WHEN HOISTED AT THE FLAG POLE IT
SHOULD BE HOISTED FULLY AT THE
TOP OF THE POLE, BLUE PART ABOVE.
▪ WHEN THE FLAG IS DISPLAYED WITH
OTHER FLAG, THE NATIONAL FLAG IS
IN THE RIGHT SIDE.

▪ WHEN DISPLAYED ON WALLS, RED AT

THE RIGHT SIDE AS SEEN WHEN YOU
ARE FACING THE FLAG
 DISPLAY OF FLAG
▪ WHEN DISPLAYED ON A
HORIZONTAL POSITION, THE
TRIANGLE IS AT THE RIGHT SIDE
WITH THE BLUE PART UP.

When displayed over the

casket, the triangle in the
direction of the head of
the cadaver with the blue
part on the right side.
 ADDRESSING THE OFFICERS
SENIORS
✓ USE THE WORD “SIR” OR “MAM” BEFORE OR AFTER
THEIR STATEMENT
✓ ALWAYS STAND ATTENTION WHILE HAVING A
CONVERSATION WITH SENIOR OFFICERS
JUNIORS
✓ ADDRESS JUNIORS BY PROPER TITLES AND NAMES
TO PROMOTE SUBORDINATION AND RESPECT.
✓ REFRAIN CALLING YOUR SUBORDINATES BY
NICKNAME
✓ FORMALLY SPEAKING TO SUBORDINATES IS
WRONG, WHEREAS WHEN YOU SPEAK TO YOUR
MEN INFORMALLY, YOU RUN THE RISK OF BEING
TOO FAMILIAR TO THEM AND YOU ARE LIABLE TO
COMPROMISE YOUR POSITION.
 WEARING OF UNIFORMS
THE MILITARY UNIFORM MUST REMAIN SPOTLESSLLY
CLEAN AND WELL PRESSED AT ALL TIMES. ALL
ACCESSORIES ACCOMPANYING THE UNIFORMS SUCH
AS BRASS BUCKLES, BUTTONS, INSIGNIAS AND
OTHERS MUST BE CLEAN.
IN THE MATTERS OF PERSONAL GROOMING,
THE SOLDIER MUST BE CLEAN SHAVED AND HIS
HAIRCUT MUST CONFORM IN THE EXISTING
STANDARDS AS CALLED BY THE REGULATIONS. HIS
SHOES MUST BE WELL SHINED.
 OTHER FORMS OF COURTESY

✓ AVOID UNDUE FAMILIARITY WITH YOUR

SENIORS
✓ WALK ON THE LEFT OF THE SENIOR AND KEEP
IN STEP WITH HIM
✓ THE MOST SENIOR ENTERS THE CARS
LAST, AND GETS OUT AHEAD OF OTHERS
✓ TO PASS A SENIOR WHILE WALKING,
SALUTE AND ASK PERMISSION TO GO AHEAD.
✓ INSIDE A CAR, THE PLACE OF HONOR IS AT THE
RIGHT (SAME WITH THE BACK SEAT)
✓ WHEN WALKING IN A GROUP OF THREE, THE
MOST SENIOR OCCUPIES THE MIDDLE
POSITION
 MILITARY DISCIPLINE

❖STATE OF ORDER AND OBEDIENCE

EXISTING WITHIN A COMMAND

❖IT IS CREATED BY TRAINING USE OF

PUNISHMENT AND REWARDS.

❖IT DEMANDS CORRECT PERFORMANCE OF

DUTY.
“Men who adopt the profession of arms submit their own
free will to a law of perpetual constraint. At their own
accord they reject the right to live where they choose,
to say what they think, to dress as they like. From the
moment they become soldiers, it needs but an order to
settle them in this place, to move them to that, to
separate them from their families and dislocate their
normal lives. On the word of command, they must rise,
march, run, endure bad weather, go without sleep or
food, be isolated in some distant post, work till they
drop. They have ceased to be the masters of their own
fate. If they drop in their tracks, if their ashes are
scattered to the four winds, that is all part and parcel of
their job.”
----President Charles de Gaulle
 IMPORTANCE OF DISCIPLINE

❑ ENSURE ORDERLY AND EFFECTIVE

GROUP ACTION (TEAMWORK)

❑ INSTILL A SENSE OF OBLIGATION TO

ONESELF, TO HIS COMMANDER,
UNIT AND ENTIRE ORGANIZATION

❑ ENSURE EFFICIENCY IN BATTLE

 Creating a Climate for
Discipline

❖Instilling sense of confidence

and responsibility

❖Judicious use of punishment and rewards

❖Instilling sense of confidence and responsibility

 Training
Develops Teamwork in accomplishing tasks.
Unify actions into single effort to accomplish the mission
Develops habit of prompt obedience to orders
Enables one to learn what is required in the battlefield
JUDICIOUS USE OF PUNISHMENT
Punish only the guilty person.
Impose the punishment promptly.
Make the guilty person realize his mistake.
Impose punishment appropriate for the
offense.
Unlike giving rewards which should be done
in public, punishment should be administered
in private.
Instilling a sense of confidence
and responsibility

By instilling a sense of confidence and responsibility

among his subordinates, a leader succeeds in creating a
climate of discipline in his unit.

A confident and responsible soldier realized that he has

an obligation not only to himself but also to the other
soldier in the unit.

He knows that violation of the rule of discipline will not

reflect in him as individual but will also discredit, if not
cause irreparable damage to his unit.
 TABOOS
♦ Uniform must not be defamed.
♦ Offer no excuses.
♦ Avoid praising your commander to his face.
♦ Old man to be spoken with care.
♦ Avoid going over the officer’s head.
♦ Harsh remarks are to be avoided.
♦ Excessive indebtedness to be avoided.
“DISCIPLINE STARTS FROM
ONESELF, IT IS THROUGH
OURSELVES THAT WE CAN
INITIATE DISCIPLINE TO OTHERS”.
 TASK 1

Directions: Briefly Explain the following questions.

1. What is Military Courtesy and Discipline?

2. What is the importance of Military Courtesy and Discipline?
3. Do you think that ROTC can improved your self-discipline?
Why?
THANK YOU AND GOOD DAY!
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