7 Values and Deadly Force

Question 1

Define sexual harassment

Answer 1

Unwelcome sexual advances; requests for sexual favors; verbal/physical conduct of a sexual nature; complicity

Question 2

Classification system for sexual harassment

Answer 2

Traffic light classification - green, yellow, red

Question 3

Categories of sexual harassment

Answer 3

Touching (e.g., sexually suggestive touching, leaning over, cornering, pinching and brushing against)
Language (e.g., sexually suggestive teasing, jokes, remarks, questions, whistles, calls or yells, and pressure for sexual favors or dates)
Gestures (e.g., sexually suggestive looks, gestures, body language, letters, and telephone calls)
Climate (e.g., materials, pictures, cartoons, or posters of a sexual nature in work spaces).

Question 4

Define ethics

Answer 4

A set of standards or a value system by which free, human actions are ultimately determined as right or wrong, good or evil

Question 5

Define Morals

Answer 5

Pertaining to or concerned with right conduct or the distinction between right or wrong. Morality covers the extensive field of personal and social behavior

Question 6

Define professional ethics

Answer 6

Additional ideals and practices that grow out of one’s professional privileges and responsibilities

Question 7

Define a moral dilemma

Answer 7

A situation that requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives

Question 8

Specific Rules that govern a military member’s behavior

Answer 8

• Title X of the U.S. Code
• The Law of Land Warfare
• Code of Conduct
• Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
• Marine Corps orders
• Commander’s intent
• Rules of engagement
• Promotion warrants
• The Oath of Office

Question 9

Define Hazing

CAHO

Answer 9

• Conduct whereby one military member, regardless of Service or rank, causes another military member, regardless of Service or rank, to suffer or be exposed to an activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, or oppressive
• Hazing need not involve physical contact among or between military members; it can be verbal or psychological in nature

Question 10

Not included in the definition of hazing

Answer 10

Hazing does not include mission or operational activities; the requisite training to prepare for such missions or operations; administrative corrective measures; extra military instruction as defined in the reference; command authorized physical training; authorized incentive training permitted at the Marine Corps Recruit Depots; and other similar activities authorized by the chain of command

Question 11

Define deadly force

Answer 11

Force which a person uses with the purpose of causing or which is known or should be reasonably known to constitute likelihood of death or serious bodily harm

Question 12

Justifications for the use of deadly force

Answer 12

Justified if the following criteria are met in any one of the subsequent circumstances:

• Under conditions of extreme necessity
• As a last resort
• When all lesser means have failed or cannot be reasonably employed

Question 13

Circumstances when deadly force is authorized

Answer 13

• Self-defense and defense of others - reasonably believed to be in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm
• Defense of property involving national security - prevent the actual or threatened theft of, damage to, espionage
• Defense of property not involving national security but inherently dangerous to others - property whose theft or destruction presents a substantial potential danger of death or serious bodily injury to others, such as operable weapons and ammunition
• To prevent or interrupt serious offenses against persons
• Apprehension or arrest - need probable cause
• Escapes
• Lawful order