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COMMAND RECORDS. -Command records
contain information relevant to equal opportunity such
as training, sailor of the month/quarter/year, awards,
meritorious mast, and discrimination complaints.
INTERVIEWS. –Interviews provide information
that is not available in command records. Interviews
reveal not only what is actually happening at a
command, but also what people perceive to be
happening and how they feel about it. In a sensitive area
like equal opportunity, information about what people
think and feel is often as important as documented facts.
OBSERVATIONS. -Observations are a means of
determining what people actually door how they behave
and interact. They are also an indirect way of collecting
data on what people think and feel. As an unbiased
observer, the CAT must be able to distinguish between
facts, opinions, and judgments. To avoid bias, the team
must also use other data sources from which to draw
conclusions.
USE OF DATA COLLECTED. –Information
collected from records, interviews, observations, and
surveys provides managers with CMEO-related data
about specific groups of people within the command. As
a minimum, commands maintain specific data on
retention, advancement, and discipline of the crew. If the
data shows the existence of disproportionate numbers
of minorities, commands investigate and take
precautions to ensure they are not the result of
discriminatory practices.
COMMAND ENFORCEMENT
Commands may use three methods to enforce equal
opportunity:
1. Warning (counseling)
2. Nonjudicial punishment (NJP), commonly
called captain’s mast
3. Separation from the Navy
With warning being the lesser and separation the
higher extreme.
Warning (Counseling)
Commands may use a variety of counseling
methods to instill in a subordinate the serious nature of
the Navy’s equal opportunity program. The following
are some of those methods, listed in the order of their
severity:
1. Verbal counseling
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Counseling through the use of locally prepared
counseling sheets
A letter of Instruction (LOI)
A page 13
A special evaluation
some cases you may be required to document
facts by entering them as a page 13 service record entry
or as a special evaluation. Since page 13 entries and
special evaluations become a permanent part of a
member’s record, you should use the less severe
counseling methods first.
Nonjudicial Punishment
The Navy awards nonjudicial punishment in equal
opportunist y cases involving repeat offenders. You will
be put on report and must appear before the
commanding officer (captain’s mast). Some of the
punishments that may be given at captain’s mast are:
Restriction
Correctional Custody
Confinement on diminished rations
Extra duty
Forfeiture of pay
Reduction in grade
Recommendation for Separation
A member’s command must recommend a member
for separation in cases of equal opportunity
discrimination as well as misconduct.
CONDUCT OF MAST
Nonjudicial punishment is better known in the Navy
as captain’s mast. The term derived from the early
sailing days when the usual setting for this type of naval
justice was held on the weather deck at the front of the
ship’s main mast.
Based on article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military
Justice (UCMJ), commanding officers may award
punishment for minor offenses without the intervention
of a court-martial. They may award that punishment to
both officer and enlisted members. The article likewise
empowers officers in charge to impose nonjudicial
punishment upon enlisted members assigned to the unit
of which the officer is in charge. Similarly, the
commander of a multiservice command, to whose
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