thedrifter
10-04-06, 02:02 PM
October 04, 2006
Lawmakers want tougher recruiting rules
By Rick Maze
Staff writer
Congress has ordered the Pentagon to consider tough new rules of conduct for recruiters that includes prohibiting them from ever being alone in social settings with prospective recruits.
The order is included in the report accompanying the 2007 defense authorization bill, which does not order any specific changes in law for recruiters but does contain an expression of congressional concern.
The report, written by negotiators drawn mostly from the House and Senate armed services committees, said lawmakers are “concerned that military recruiter misconduct, and particularly misconduct involving criminal or otherwise improper sexual contact with recruit candidates, irreparably harms the young people involved, erodes the moral and ethical standards that are the hallmark of the U.S. armed forces and damages public support for military operations and recruiting by undermining the trust and high esteem that the American people place in their military forces.”
Misconduct, the report says, “must not be tolerated.”
Lawmakers order the military’s uniformed and civilian leaders to “take decisive action” on policies to prevent misconduct and to discipline those who engage in misconduct.
They also want the Pentagon Defense to consider adopting the Indiana National Guard’s “no one alone” policy as the standard for preventing unsupervised contact between recruiters and candidates of the opposite gender.
Lawmakers ask for a full report by March 1, which would allow enough time to include any legislative changes in the 2008 defense authorization bill.
Ellie
Lawmakers want tougher recruiting rules
By Rick Maze
Staff writer
Congress has ordered the Pentagon to consider tough new rules of conduct for recruiters that includes prohibiting them from ever being alone in social settings with prospective recruits.
The order is included in the report accompanying the 2007 defense authorization bill, which does not order any specific changes in law for recruiters but does contain an expression of congressional concern.
The report, written by negotiators drawn mostly from the House and Senate armed services committees, said lawmakers are “concerned that military recruiter misconduct, and particularly misconduct involving criminal or otherwise improper sexual contact with recruit candidates, irreparably harms the young people involved, erodes the moral and ethical standards that are the hallmark of the U.S. armed forces and damages public support for military operations and recruiting by undermining the trust and high esteem that the American people place in their military forces.”
Misconduct, the report says, “must not be tolerated.”
Lawmakers order the military’s uniformed and civilian leaders to “take decisive action” on policies to prevent misconduct and to discipline those who engage in misconduct.
They also want the Pentagon Defense to consider adopting the Indiana National Guard’s “no one alone” policy as the standard for preventing unsupervised contact between recruiters and candidates of the opposite gender.
Lawmakers ask for a full report by March 1, which would allow enough time to include any legislative changes in the 2008 defense authorization bill.
Ellie