ABSTRACT
Careerism is a vice that involves compromising some moral rule or rules in the pursuit of career advancement, and it is this compromise that we find blameworthy, not the career-pursuing context in which it occurs. In the military, much more than a simple contractual relationship is in place which makes ticket punching that much worse. Military professionals take a solemn oath of office which binds them even more firmly in this duty to discharge their responsibilities in good faith. In an ideal military, the services will outline career development paths, with the concomitant schools, assignments, that actually develop the professional capacity of the officers in ways that make them better able to serve. To make matters worse for all of them, the unique duties held in the military often do not provide any experience for civilian employment of comparable quality or compensation. People should note that some egoistic tendencies surely come with the new service member via Western culture.
