If Navy service members don’t meet the fitness or body fat standards and need help to change health habits, they take part in the Health and Physical Readiness Program.
The Navy responsibility for pregnant servicewomen is providing obstetrical care at a medical facility if it has obstetrical/gynecological facilities and if the servicewoman lives in the treatment facility area.
List the responsibilities of pregnant servicewomen.
a. Plan pregnancy to meet family and military obligation
b. Confirm pregnancy with military medical facility
c. Notify CO or OIC of pregnancy
d. Perform military duties while pregnant
e. Comply with work- and task-related safety and health recommendations
Service members must complete what forms for family care?
a. Family Care Plan Certificate, NAVPERS 1740/6
b. Family Care Plan Arrangements, NAVPERS 1740/7
The Department of the Navy public affairs informs the public and service members about the following subjects: a. The Navy as an instrument of national policy and security
b. Navy operations and programs
c. The responsibilities and activities of naval personnel as U.S. Citizens
The Navy’s policy on drug abuse is zero tolerance.
The purpose of the Integrity and Efficiency Program is to detect, deter, and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse.
You can report fraud, waste, and abuse situations by the following means:
a. Chain of command
b. Navy hotline
c. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
d. Congressional communication
For the public to feel confident about the Navy’s integrity, naval personnel should comply with the Standards of Conduct and Professional Ethics.
The Navy uses the Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) Program to ensure that all naval personnel are treated equally and are given equal opportunities.
Guidance and policy for the CMEO Program is provided by the Chief of Naval Operations.
Telling an sexist or racial joke is an insensitive practice.
Command facilities provide a variety of products and services in command facilities to avoid discrimination in the operation of exchanges, commissaries, service clubs, and recreational facilities.
The best place for you or your family to start to resolve an off-base discrimination complaint is your chain of command.
Navy personnel can’t take part in civil rights demonstrations in the following situations:
a. While wearing their uniform or during duty hours.
b. When held on a military reservation or in a foreign country.
c. When law and order are violated or when they could reasonably be expected to result in violence.
You have submitted a special request chit and feel that the chain of command hasn’t resolved your discrimination complaint. Your next course of action is to request captain’s mast.
Hazing is any conduct whereby a military member or members, regardless of service or rank, without proper authority causes another military member or members, regardless of service or rank, to suffer or be exposed to any activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful.
According to Navy policy, hazing is prohibited.
Improper conduct is considered sexual harassment when—
a. Submission to or rejection of such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a person’s job.
b. Pay, or career; submission to or rejection of such conduct by a person is used as a basis for career or employment decisions affecting that person.
c. Such conduct interferes with an individual’s performance or creates an intimidating , hostile , or offensive environment.
A person’s behavior to be termed sexual harassment if is—
a. Unwelcome
b. Sexual in nature
c. Occurs in or impacts on the work environment
The recipient’s perceptions count when there is unwelcome behavior.
If your LCPO offers you high marks on your evals in exchange for sexual favors, it is quid pro quo sexual harassment.
Displaying posters or using sexually explicit language creates a hostile environment.
To make the range of good to bad behavior easier to understand, the Navy has compared behavior zones to the traffic light.
a. Red zone—Sexual harassment behavior
b. Yellow zone—Many people find behavior unacceptable
c. Green light—Acceptable behavior, not sexual harassment
The function of the ombudsman is to promote good order and discipline.
The ombudsman—
a. Acts as a liaison between Navy families and the command, and
b. Keeps the families informed about command policies.
The ombudsman communicates with Navy families through command newsletters, command-sponsored telephone “Careline,” or phone trees.
The ombudsman works through the following agencies/organizations:
a. Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
b. American Red Cross
c. Family Service Centers
d. Chaplain’s office
e. Navy Wifeline Association
f. Medical treatment facilities
g. Legal assistance offices
Before a first-term Sailor can reenlist or extend, he/she must have ENCORE approval.
If you leave the Navy, your reenlistment code tells whether you can reenlist.
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