[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by Jack Moroney

Physical courage requires an physical act on your part to deal with situations that threaten you, those around you, or those for whom you are responsible.

Moral courage is standing up for your beliefs and doing the right thing based on the values, mores, and tenets that make you who you are regardless of the personal pressures put on you to do something else that might benefit you personally or keep you out of a unfavorable light in the eyes of those who hold sway over you. This has much to do with personal and professional integrity.

In my book, moral courage is the more important of the two because it takes forethought and deliberate action based on who you are where you know exactly what the outcome is likely to be. It also provides a measure of consistency for those for whom you are charged to lead. Your soldiers always, always, need to know where you stand. While physical courage is important, it is often a result of action/reaction brought about by situations under which you have no control, that often are based on immediate reaction polished by training, peer pressure, fight or flight stimuli, or fear of failure. It is not always deliberate, although the outcome is usually positive-if you succeed. In many situations the aftermath is one of, "Damn, I don't believe what just happened" with a little, or a lot, of anxiety added to the mix. Both are necessary traits for a soldier/leader. Unfortunately for some, moral courage is often most easily gauged by someone's day to day actions while physical courage is only able to be measured after the fact and then is not necessarily a consistent trait because every situation is different. This is one reason why your training never stops as you prepare to deal with ever increasing uncertainties by honing and adding to your skills as you gather information/intelligence on the mindset of those against whom you will eventually have to stand and the environments in which you will operate.

Sir,

I stumbled across this post and saw you have written a book....I'm a collector of SF military books and wondered if it's still in print and who is the publisher...Do you know if it's still available?

GB TFS