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. In 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 3-4