Personal Excellence Programs - Health and Fitness

be assured that they also subsequently will not be the victims of reprisal or retaliation. Leaders and supervisors must foster a positive climate and take appropriate corrective action when conduct is disruptive, provoking, discriminatory, or otherwise unprofessional. All DON personnel, military and civilian, are accountable for their actions and are responsible for treating others with dignity and respect. Fraternization The Navy historically has relied upon custom and tradition to define the bounds of acceptable personal relationships among its members. The Navy always encourages proper social interaction among officer and enlisted members. Unduly familiar personal relationships between officer and enlisted members traditionally have been contrary to naval custom. Such relationships undermine the respect for authority that is essential to the Navy’s ability to accomplish its military mission. Naval custom prevents personnel from using a senior grade or position to show (or give the impression of showing) favoritism or preferential treatment or for personal gain. It also helps prevent officers from becoming involved in other actions that undermine good order, discipline, authority, or unit morale. In a like manner, custom requires that junior personnel recognize and respect the authority inherent in a senior’s grade, rank, or position. Fraternization is the traditional term used to identify personal relationships that cross the usual bounds of acceptable senior-subordinate relationships. Although its common application applies to the officer-enlisted relationship, fraternization also includes improper relationships between senior and junior officer members and between senior and junior enlisted personnel. Fraternization is punishable as an offense under the UCMJ when it is prejudicial to good order and discipline or brings discredit to the naval service. This manual cannot cite every act that may be prejudicial to good order and discipline or is service discrediting; the circumstances often have more to do with making the act criminal than the act itself. However, dating, cohabitation, or sexual intimacy between officers and enlisted members is clearly inappropriate. A private business partnership between officers and enlisted persons also is inappropriate. Likewise, such conduct between officers and between enlisted members in which a senior-subordinate supervisory relationship exists is equally inappropriate. Conduct that is fraternization is not excused by a later marriage between the offending parties. The responsibility for preventing inappropriate relationships rests primarily on the senior member. The Navy expects the senior party to control and prevent the development of inappropriate senior-subordinate relationships. However, since the Navy’s fraternization policy applies to both members, both are accountable for their own conduct. A review by all hands of Navy Fraternization Policy, OPNAVINST 5370.2, is required by commands on an annual basis. PERSONAL EXCELLENCE PROGRAMS—HEALTH AND FITNESS Learning Objectives: Recognize the petty officer’s responsibility in the Navy’s drug and alcohol abuse prevention and control program. Recall the programs for counseling and treating personnel with drug and/or alcohol problems. Recall indicators of a potential suicide. Recognize health and physical readiness program initiatives. NAVY ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM Drug and alcohol abuse is costly in terms of lost man-hours and unnecessary administrative and judicial processing. Additionally it is a critical draw down of morale and esprit de corps. It undermines the very fiber of combat readiness, safety, 3-10 Q7. Sexual harassment is NOT allowed in which of the following situations? 1. On or off duty 2. On base/ship 3. Off base/ship 4. All of the above Q8. Although the common application of fraternization applies to the officer-enlisted relationship, fraternization also includes improper relationships between officer members and between enlisted personnel. 1. True 2. False REVIEW QUESTIONS