The opening of both the Resort World Sentosa (RWS) and Marina Bays Sand (MBS) integrated resorts in 2010 generated an additional revenue of 1.7 billion Singapore dollars and acts as the catalyst to boost the nation's tourism industry (Chan, 2010). While Singapore benefited economically from the opening of the integrated resorts, a 60% increase in problem gambling related cases reported between 2012 and 2014 than that between 2009 and 2011 evidently highlighted the associated negative social costs (Siau, 2015). Regardless of the social status and educational background of the addicted gamblers, the financial hardship, strained family ties, and poor work performance can adversely affect their life and send them spiraling downward to abyss. Similarly, soldiers and leaders are not immune to gambling addiction and may potentially fall into this trap. An unethical behavior occurs when leaders resort to leverage on their positional power to borrow money from subordinates to feed their gambling habits. Other than violating the military's core values, losing trust from their subordinate soldiers become the second and third order effect from that leader's action. It is therefore important to examine the physical environment, social and psychological factors that lead to compulsive gambling and the detrimental consequences when soldier loses their trust in the profession, and through the analysis of the problem using the ethical lenses, derives a feasible recommendation to reduce this unethical behavior. This paper aims to identify the possible causes that contribute to compulsive gambling behavior, highlight how this unethical behavior could potentially undermine soldier's trust in the profession, and utilizing the ethical lens to derive suitable recommendations to reduce this unethical behavior in the organization.

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