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Chapter 7 - Enforcing Standards and Legal Issues Notes


Error?
7.4.2. Nuclear Surety Inspection (NSI). MAJCOM IG teams evaluate a unit’s management of nuclear resources against approved safety, security, and reliability standards. Teams evaluate logistics airlift units with nuclear weapons transport missions by observing loading, transporting, unloading, and custody transferring procedures of representative types of weapons. The unit’s proficiency is determined by using war reserve (WR) weapons when possible. Training weapons or weapon system simulations are used when WR assets are not available. The final rating is based on the nature, severity, and number of findings noted during the inspection. Units are assigned a rating of satisfactory, satisfactory (support unsatisfactory) (for deficiencies outside the control of the commander), or unsatisfactory. If a unit receives an overall unsatisfactory, the unit will receive another inspection within 90 days. If the unit does not achieve a satisfactory on the reinspection, the MAJCOM commander must approve the unit’s use of nuclear weapons.

Shouldn't the unit’s use of nuclear weapons be DISAPPROVED?

AFI 90-201, Inspector General Activities, states that:

5.3.2. Unit Nuclear Decertification. The MAJCOM/CC may withdraw unit nuclear certification for any of the following reasons:
5.3.2.1. The safety, security, or reliability of nuclear assets is uncertain.
5.3.2.2. The unit is unable to perform its nuclear operational mission.
5.3.2.3. A unit is rated less than SATISFACTORY during a NSI, LNSI, or NORI.

And paragraph 5.11., Reinspection of NSI deficient areas, makes no provision for actions following the failure of a reinspection, only for a successful reinspection:

5.11.3. Re-inspection Rating. The rating for the re-inspected area(s) will not exceed SATISFACTORY. If all deficient areas are successfully re-inspected, the overall unit rating will be UNSATISFACTORY, RE-INSPECTED TO SATISFACTORY. Document re-inspection results via message format IAW Attachment 4 and forward to Table 5.1., Group 1 addressees.


Addition
7.8. Program Policy and Mission Focus. The 2009 PDG edition only had a single paragraph on Program Policy and Mission Focus but the 2011 version adds several subparagraphs (7.8.1.-7.8.5.) and new material.


Change
7.9.4. Procedures for Filing a Complaint. In the new PDG, the name of the form used to file an IG complaint changed from AF IMT 102, IG Personal and Fraud, Waste and Abuse Complaint Registration to AF IMT 102, Inspector General Personal and Fraud, Waste & Abuse Complaint Registration.


Typo?
7.8.5. The Department of Defense Inspector General provides a quarterly report to Congress detailing IG allegations of improper mental health evaluations, reprisal, and restricted (the latter two, if substantiated, are Federal violations). should read 'allegations of improper mental health evaluations, reprisal, and restriction'


Typo?
7.30.3.1. Disorders and Neglects Prejudicial to Good Order and Discipline. Article 134, UCMJ, seeks to protect the internal operation of the Armed Forces. The issue is the affect an act has on good order and discipline within the Armed Forces. The effect must be reasonably direct and tangible. Disorders and neglects prejudicial to good order and discipline include breach of custom of the service, fraternization, impersonating an officer, disorderly conduct, gambling with a subordinate, and incapacitating oneself for duty through prior indulgence in intoxicating liquors.