PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN EQUALOPPORTUNITYThe Navy evaluates every Navy member’s supportof the equal opportunity program. Personnel inpaygrades E-1 through E-9 receive numeric grades,based on a number scale, on overall annual performanceevaluations of specific traits. Your performanceevaluation will reflect your attitude toward and yourconduct in support of the Navy’s equal opportunityprogram.PROCEDURES CONCERNINGINSENSITIVE PRACTICESWhen people enter the Navy, they have their ownfeelings, attitudes, prejudices, and ideas based on theirindividual personal backgrounds. An insensitivepractice is behavior that is prejudicial to another personbecause of that person’s race, religion, creed, color, sex,or national origin. To ensure teamwork and to fulfill theNavy’s mission, individuals must put aside theirpersonal feelings, attitudes, prejudices, and ideas aboutother people and how they act around others.Commanding officers take proper action to correctinsensitive practices. If a person takes part in insensitivepractices, that person receives counseling about theirresponsibilities with regard to equal treatment. If suchcounseling is not effective or if further action iswarranted, personnel may receive administrative ordisciplinary action or both.DUTY ASSIGNMENTSThe unfair assignment of general administrativeand support duties (food service, compartmentcleaning, and work details) outside the normalrequirements of a rating frequently lowers morale. Italso weakens the efficiency and overall effectiveness ofa command.Based on Navy policy, supervisors should assignwork not included in a specific rating on a fair, rotationalbasis. They should make such assignments withoutregard to race, creed, color, sex, age, or national origin.Although supervisors may consider the seniority ofpersonnel in detailing such duties, they must makepositive efforts to ensure fair treatment.Assignment to duty on ships or stations should alsocomply with the Navy’s equal opportunity goals. Therepeal of the combat exclusion law potentially opens allclasses of surface ships to women. The NavalConstruction Force, or Seabees, has also receivedwomen in sea duty construction battalions. Allconstruction battalions are now open to women,opening more than 4,000 seagoing billets to women.The expanded opportunity for women in the Navyensures a more equitable rotation between sea and shoreduty for all Sailors and provides career paths forwomen that are consistent with those of their malecounterparts.PROFESSIONAL TRAINING ANDADVANCEMENTThe Navy expects everyone who enters the navalservice to increase his/her knowledge and skills. Yourcommand will provide the necessary training so you candevelop a skill and properly prepare yourself foradvancement. Although advancement is an individualeffort, the command has the responsibility to provideyou with an equal opportunity for training andadvancement. How far you advance depends primarilyon your own initiative, capabilities, and qualifications.The Department of the Navy sets the requirementsfor advancement for paygrades E-1 through E-9. Toadvance to E-4 through E-7, Sailors must pass anadvancement-in-rate exam. However, just meeting allthe requirements does not guarantee advancement.Only the most qualified will be advanced, and they willbe advanced only if vacancies exist for that paygrade.Improving yourself, your skills, and your educationincreases your chance for advancement.MILITARY JUSTICETo assure equal justice and treatment, yourcommand will continuously review charges, dismissedcases, issued warnings, and all nonjudicial punishment1-15Student Notes:
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