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(b) Ensure the designation of a TAFP point of contact as an additional duty in each unit below installation/JFHQ/ RSC/GOCOM level. (c) Identify and input fiscal and personnel resource requirements for the TAFP as part of the command operating budget process. (d) Ensure Soldier, civilian, retiree, and Family member awareness of the TAFP. (e) Ensure Soldier, civilian, retiree, and Family member access to entitlements, Family programs, and Family services. (f) Provide for Soldier, civilian, retiree and Family member participation in quality of life programs. Ensure inclusion of single Soldiers in quality of life programs and initiatives. (g) Installations/JFHQs will ensure/facilitate appropriate coordination of TAFP elements for all components within their geographical area of responsibility during peacetime or any levels of contingency or mobilization. (7) Unit commanders at all levels will provide an environment that encourages an effective Family program and at a minimum will— (a) Appoint a TAFP point of contact as an additional duty. (b) Provide pre-deployment and reunion briefings as required. (c) Ensure Soldier and Family member awareness of the TAFP. (d) Ensure Soldier and Family member access to entitlements, Family programs, and Family service. (e) Ensure the proper documenting and monitoring of personal affairs readiness of Soldiers, to include Family care plans (see para 5–5). (f) Ensure inclusion of single personnel in quality of life programs and initiatives. (g) Maintain, as appropriate to the needs of their units, a unit FRG to encourage self-sufficiency among its members by providing information, referral assistance and mutual support. (8) Family Program coordinators will— (a) Advise the commander concerning the impact of the TAFP on retention, readiness, training, and mobilization/ deployment. (b) Coordinate the development of the TAFP. (c) Coordinate the development of resource requirements to support the TAFP. (d) Coordinate public/community/employer awareness and support of the TAFP. (e) Serve as command liaison with military and civilian agencies involved in resourcing and supporting the TAFP. (9) Soldiers bear primary responsibility for their Family and personal affairs readiness. They should support and participate in the TAFP. At a minimum Soldiers will— (a) Keep themselves and their Families informed concerning key (unit) personnel information, benefits, programs, and so forth, and ensure that information regarding the TAFP is provided to Family members. (b) Support, and where appropriate, encourage their Family members to support programs, services and activities designed to maintain and/or enhance the quality of life and well being of all members of the Total Army Family, for example, FRG, Deployment Cycle Support training, Army Family Team Building, and so forth Many of those programs, services, and activities are primarily dependent upon volunteers to ensure their success and continued effectiveness. 5–11. Federal Parent Locator Service Section 113, Title 10, United States Code (10 USC 113) requires that current addresses of Soldiers be available to the Federal Parent Locator Service. The DEERS serves as DOD’s centralized personal locator service. Commanders will ensure that all Soldiers update new residential addresses on the DEERS within 30 days after the new address is established. Soldiers assigned overseas, or whose residential address should not be disclosed in the commander’s judgment because of security or safety concerns, will provide a duty address to DEERS. 5–12. Military Whistleblower Protection Act Department of the Army personnel are prohibited from taking acts of reprisal against any Soldier for filing a complaint of unlawful discrimination or sexual harassment (see DODD 7050.6). a. No person will restrict a member of the Armed Services from making a protected communication with a member of Congress; an Inspector General; a member of a DOD audit, inspection, investigation or law enforcement organization; or any other person or organization (including any person in the chain of command) designated under this regulation or other administrative procedures to receive such communication. b. Soldiers will be free from reprisal for making or preparing a protected communication. c. No employee or Soldier may take or threaten to take an unfavorable personnel action, or to withhold or threaten t o w i t h h o l d a f a v o r a b l e p e r s o n n e l a c t i o n , i n r e p r i s a l a g a i n s t a n y S o l d i e r f o r m a k i n g o r p r e p a r i n g a p r o t e c t e d communication. d. The chain of command will ensure complainants are protected from reprisal or retaliation for filing EO complaints. Should Soldiers be threatened with such an act, or should an act of reprisal occur, they must report these 48 AR 600–20 18 March 2008
circumstances to the DOD Inspector General. If the allegation of reprisal is made known to any agency authorized in this regulation to receive complaints, the agency should refer the complaint to the DOD Inspector General. It is strongly encouraged to simultaneously report such threats or acts of reprisal to the appropriate chain of command. The DOD Inspector General Hotline phone number is 1(800) 424–9098 or DSN 664–8799; the DOD Inspector General Hotline email address is hotline@dodig.osd.mil-either may be used to report threats or acts of reprisal. Personnel calling from OCONUS may dial (703) 604–8569; or, mail a letter to Department of Defense Inspector General, ATTN: Defense Hotline, 1900 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–1900. 5–13. Human relations readiness training a. There is an indisputable link between how Soldiers are treated and how they perform their duties. Human relations training directly affects individual and unit readiness. Training commanders and Soldiers to treat one another with dignity and respect achieves better morale, greater commitment, increased trust and cohesion and better performance. The DCS, G–1, is the sole proponent for HRRT. b. The five key training elements of HRRT are— (1) Army policy/commander’s intent. This is the most obvious aspect of HRRT in that Soldiers must know and understand Army human relations policy (for example, what fraternization is and is not). (2) Prevention and intervention. The HRRT is proactive, targeting high-risk Army populations that some research suggests are more likely to exhibit extremism in the form of racial and ethnic hatred, intolerance and discrimination. Soldiers living in barracks and serving on peacekeeping deployments are among these high-risk Army populations. HRRT is also interventional, responding to emergent Armywide or unit-specific human relations problems. (3) Command climate awareness. Commanders periodically must assess their specific unit’s human relations readiness climate in order to contextualize HRRT to the unit’s mission and personal dimensions of living and working together. (4) Building Soldier skills. HRRT empowers Soldiers to do the right thing. To best accomplish this, HRRT incorporates successful and proven adult learning models (for example, group discussion of scenarios). (5) Values. HRRT incorporates values essential to Army readiness, with “Dignity and Respect for All” as the foundational human relations value. Other values include (but are not limited to) Army values (leadership, for example), doing the right thing, safe environment, trust and confidence, good order and discipline, chain of command support, fairness, and valuing differences. 5–14. Unit memorial policy Unit memorial ceremonies and services show respect to the service of Soldiers who have died, and offer support to unit survivors. These memorial events assist surviving Soldiers in dealing with the realities of death and honor the military Service and the contribution the Soldier made while in uniform. The unit memorial event allows surviving Soldiers a means for expressing their grief and assists in the healing process. a. Command responsibilities. Commanders will conduct a memorial event (Memorial Ceremony or Memorial Service) for every Soldier who dies while assigned to their unit, regardless of the manner of death to include suicides. The manner of death does not negate the service and the contribution a Soldier has made while in uniform, except as prescribed in subparagraph b, below. Commanders will also notify their supporting Casualty Assistance Center of the time and place of unit memorial events. b. Command exceptions. Unit commanders may request an exception to policy not to conduct a memorial event through their command channels. The first general officer in the chain of command may approve the exception only when the deceased Soldier— (1) Has been convicted of a capital offense under Federal or State law for which the person was sentenced to death or life imprisonment without parole; or (2) Has been convicted of a serious offense, which is defined as a military or civilian offense, which if prosecuted under the UCMJ, could be punished by confinement of 6 months or more and/or a punitive discharge; or (3) Is found by the first general officer in the chain of command to have committed a capital offense or serious offense, as used herein, but the deceased Soldier has not been convicted of such crime because the Soldier was not available for trial due to his/her death. c. Elements of the memorial events. Recognizing the military Service of the Soldier provides healing and renewal for the living. The opportunity to provide closure for members of the unit is offered during a memorial event. The Commander’s decision whether to conduct a Memorial Ceremony or a Memorial Service is dependent upon many factors to include the unit mission, tactical situation, and the wishes of Family members in the local area. (1) Memorial Ceremony. A Memorial Ceremony is a command program with a ceremonial orientation. As a command program, attendance of Soldiers at a Memorial Ceremony may be made mandatory. Although there are religious aspects to the memorial ceremony, such as an invocation and benediction, the major focus will be on military tributes and honors. A Memorial Ceremony may include the following: Prelude, Posting of the Colors, National Anthem, Invocation, Memorial Tribute, Readings, Address, Memorial Prayers, Silent Tribute or Roll Call, Music, Benediction, Firing of Volleys, and Sounding of Taps. The Soldier’s remains are not present for this ceremony. AR 600–20 18 March 2008 49
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Army Regulation 600-20 Personnel-Ge
Page 3 and 4: Headquarters Department of the Army
Page 5 and 6: Contents—Continued Other prohibit
Page 7 and 8: Chapter 1 Introduction 1-1. Purpose
Page 9 and 10: Table 1-1 Grades of rank, U.S. Army
Page 11 and 12: Table 1-2 Comparable rank among the
Page 13 and 14: Guidance shall be operated in full
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Page 17 and 18: exception to this policy must be ap
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Page 27 and 28: 3-5. Well-being strategic goals Arm
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(b) Army. (c) Other Services. (d) C
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(6) Prepare and submit, as required
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(1) Include evaluations of SAPR tra
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CID Criminal Investigation Division
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GC garrison commander GCMCA General
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OPMG Office of the Provost Marshal
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