This article aims to answer the question of how professional identity avects the individual. Specizc study is centered on military commanders caring out their professional roles, with question of how they identify with it. Research is based on interviews with generals and admirals of the Polish Army. As it is indicated their social identity is crucial for self-image. Social identity, as the author claims, is consistent with the personal identity of a given individual. Hence the znding, analyzing responses to this problem, respondents in general identify with the values of an organization. xis is the most signizcant experience in their lives, dezning who they are and what aims are associated with and because of their professional military duties. Without a doubt a military ethos and interconnected values play an important role for a profession.