Moral waiver information

A moral waiver is an action by United States armed forces officials to accept, for induction into one of the military services, a recruit who is in one or more of a list of otherwise disqualifying situations.

The mechanism dates from at least the mid-1960s, and was by no later than 1969^[1] part of Army Regulation 601-270.^[2] There are cases when the use of large amount of moral waivers is for the purpose of meeting recruitment goals.^[3]^[4] As of 2009^[update], the "major revision" effective in March 2007 and titled "Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)" remains in effect; in that revision, Chapter 9 ("Processing of Selective Service System Registrants"), Section III ("Determination of Moral Qualifications and Waivers")^[5] is primarily^[6] concerned with moral waiver.

Each disqualifying situation involves at least convictions for multiple minor traffic offenses, or conviction of a more serious charge. The waiver-granting official would be either the commanding officer of the induction center, or the commander of the national induction-center system; the regulations permit even partial discretion as to which of the two applies only in the case of serious juvenile offenses: for adverse juvenile adjudication for one or more juvenile "felonies" (where the quotation marks are part of the regulation), the induction center commander may either reject the inductee on that commander's own authority, or submit the case for consideration of a moral waiver by the national commander. A single adult felony conviction could be subject to moral waiver, at the discretion of the national commander, but multiple ones are completely disqualifying. While those convicted or were found guilty of offenses are deemed unacceptable for service, the Armed Forces Moral Waiver Determination Board can still issue an exemption and render such disqualification waivered.^[7]

^ 458 F.2d 619, US vs Adams
^ Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)
^ Christopher, Paul (2010). "Black Hearts: A Study in Leadership". Military Review (May–June 2010): 126–129.
^ Stallabrass, Julian (2020-10-30). Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-5381-4180-9.
^ Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), pp. 24-33 (in the document, but numbered as 34-43 of the PDF). Note that the content of "Appendix F" is incompatible with the context in which it is referred to, and the reference to it (on p. 24, i.e. p. 34 in the PDF) in "9–15. Initial screening" is apparently a typo for "Appendix E", titled "Guidelines of Typical Offenses", at pp. 49-52 (59-62 of the PDF).
^ That section also includes "9-21. Provisions related to homosexual conduct", which makes no reference to moral waiver, nor to statutes or courts, but includes elements of the policy known as "Don't ask, don't tell".
^ Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1966. p. 9949.

[1] 458 F.2d 619, US vs Adams

[2] Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)

[3] Christopher, Paul (2010). "Black Hearts: A Study in Leadership". Military Review (May–June 2010): 126–129.

[4] Stallabrass, Julian (2020-10-30). Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-5381-4180-9.

[5] Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), pp. 24-33 (in the document, but numbered as 34-43 of the PDF). Note that the content of "Appendix F" is incompatible with the context in which it is referred to, and the reference to it (on p. 24, i.e. p. 34 in the PDF) in "9–15. Initial screening" is apparently a typo for "Appendix E", titled "Guidelines of Typical Offenses", at pp. 49-52 (59-62 of the PDF).

[6] That section also includes "9-21. Provisions related to homosexual conduct", which makes no reference to moral waiver, nor to statutes or courts, but includes elements of the policy known as "Don't ask, don't tell".

[7] Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1966. p. 9949.

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