those who do have access. Tailor your education efforts to meet the needs of the command. In developing your command security educa- tion  program,  provide  the  minimum  briefing requirements. Make sure the program does not evolve into a system of meeting formal require- ments without achieving the real goals. For instance, giving the same lecture or showing the same film every year would satisfy the require- ment for an annual refresher briefing. However, it would not enhance security awareness. The objective of the overall program is to advise personnel of the following facts about security: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. The adverse effects to the national security that could result from unauthorized dis- closure of classified information; their personal, moral, and legal obligation to protect classified information within their knowledge, possession, or control Their  responsibility  to  adhere  to  those standards of conduct required by persons holding positions of trust and to avoid personal behavior that could render them ineligible for access to classified informa- tion or assignment to sensitive duties Their obligation to notify their super- visor or command security manager of a potentially serious security violation by someone who has access to classified information  or  is  assigned  to  sensitive duties The requirement of supervisors to continu- ously evaluate the eligibility of personnel for access to classified information or assignment to sensitive duties The principles, criteria, and procedures for classification,  downgrading,  declassifica- tion, marking, control and accountability, storage, destruction, and transmission of classified information and materials; the strict prohibitions against the improper use and abuse of the classified system The procedures for challenging classifica- tion decisions they believe to be improper The security requirements of their particular assignments How to determine, before disseminating classified information, that the prospective recipient has been authorized access by competent authority, needs the informa- tion to perform his or her official duties, and can properly protect (store) the information 9. 10. 11. 12. The strict prohibition against discussing classified information over an unsecured telephone or in any manner that may permit  interception  by  unauthorized persons The  techniques  employed  by  foreign intelligence activities in attempting to obtain classified information The penalties for engaging in espionage activities and for mishandling classified information or materials Their obligation to report counterintelli- gence activities as outlined in chapter 5 of OPNAVINST  5510.1H BASIC SECURITY EDUCATION.  —All persons attend basic security education indoctrina- tion or orientation classes after their initial entry into the service. The indoctrination classes are designed to give every person in the Navy a basic understanding of classified materials and how and why this information should be protected. Orientation training is designed for those persons who will have access to classified material, The following guidelines are the minimum require- ments  for  basic  security  education: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Indoctrination in basic principles of security upon entering the Navy Orientation of those persons who will have access to classified information at the time of their duty assignment On-the-job  training  in  specific  require- ments for the duties assigned Annual refresher briefings for those who have access to classified information Special briefings as circumstances dictate Debriefing each time a security termination statement is executed Counterespionage briefings once every 2 years for those who have access to infor- mation classified Secret or above When you indoctrinate personnel, teach them to take the following security precautions: 1. 2. 3. Protect information essential to the national security from disclosure to unauthorized persons Mark all classified materials to show the level of classification Allow access to classified information only to  officially  and  specifically  authorized persons 9-8