Moral Waivers and Suitability for High Security Military Jobs
Abstract
The moral waiver option has been useful to the military services for filling personnel needs in high security jobs. While there is great variation across the services in the numbers of moral waivers accessed and assigned to sensitive positions, the program is especially useful in filling immediate personnel needs. The moral waiver population was clustered into three groupings: traffic waivers, misdemeanors, and felonies/substance abuse. The misdemeanor and felonies/substance abuse categories of moral waivers are burdened with higher unsuitability attrition rates. High school graduation acts as a moderator of the waiver, nonwaiver differences in unsuitability attrition. Services need to carefully assess the policy of assigning non-high school graduates with misdemeanor and felonies/substance abuse waivers to sensitive jobs. Traffic violators appear much more similar to nonwaivers than to waivers on all measures in the study and should probably not belong in a moral waiver category. Keywords: Security personnel, Personnel security, Moral waivers, Enlisted suitability, Security screening.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA208698
Entities
People
- Martin F. Wiskoff
- Norma E. Dunipace