Senior leaders are tasked to make life or death decisions

Senior leaders are tasked to make life or death decisions based on the face-value of a person during an exercise at the Senior Leadership Workshop aboard Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, Feb. 23-26, 2017. The exercise required the Marines and Sailors to make the decision on who would be saved from a sinking ship and who would be sacrificed based on a small paragraph on information given about a person The workshop aims to emphasize the importance of open communication and equal opportunity, and to demonstrate their effects on unit cohesion, mission accomplishment and mission readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sara Graham)