Health, Sanitation, and Messing

All persons must report promptly to the medical officer the existence or suspicion of any communicable diseases in themselves or in persons with whom they are living or otherwise come in contact.

All persons must report immediately for medical treatment if they have any discharge, inflammation, or sores about their parts; or if they have displayed other symptoms of a venereal disease; or if they are aware that they have contracted a venereal disease.

No person suffering from infections or from a communicable contagious disease will be assigned to duty on the messdecks, in stores areas, or on working parties engaged in handling provisions.

The reporting and treatment of a venereal disease is a personal and confidential matter and no disciplinary action will be taken for having contracted the venereal disease itself.

Hitchhiking

No naval personnel will, on a public road, street, or highway, endeavor by words, gestures, or otherwise to beg, solicit, or hitchhike a ride in or on any motor vehicle. Accepting rides at authorized service personnel pickup stations is authorized.

Inspection of Property

Personnel should not refuse to present for inspection by the OOD or an authorized representative any item of baggage or article in their possession or on their persons or knowingly conceal in any container or on their persons any article with intent to deceive or evade the lawful inspection of such articles.

Intoxicated Persons

The OOD or the CDO must make sure that all persons who return on board in an intoxicated condition, or who are found on board intoxicated, are promptly examined by the medical officer or his or her qualified representative. Additional guidance can be found in COMNAVSURFLANTINST 6000.1 or COMNAVSURFPACINST 6000.1. All persons who are intoxicated to such an extent as to create a disturbance or to make their being at large dangerous to their personal safety or to the safety of the unit must be placed under protective restraint upon direction of the CO, the CDO, or the OOD. Only such restraint as is necessary to ensure the cessation of the disturbance or to ensure the personal safety of the individual concerned or the safety of the unit may be imposed.

Leave and Liberty

No person will proceed from the confines of a naval unit for any reason whatever without permission of proper authority.

No person will proceed from the confines of a naval unit for any reason whatever while knowingly in a restraint status without permission of the CO, the XO, or, in emergencies, the CDO.

No person will proceed from the confines of a naval unit for any reason whatever while knowingly on the sick list, binnacle list, or the venereal disease restricted list, unless such a person's name is removed from the list by the medical officer, and then only with proper authority.

No person will fail to report his or her departure from or return to a naval unit to the OOD or an authorized representative.

Lights

No person will turn on any white lights, other than standing lights, during the hours between taps and reveille, in any living space, passageway, office, messdeck, lounge or recreation area, control room, shop, machinery space, or other working space, unless such light is incident to the performance of duty or authorized by proper authority.

During periods when the unit is darkened, only flashlights or hand lanterns that have been altered to produce a dim red light will be lighted on any weather deck or in any space visible from without. Further, such lights will be used only when necessary for the performance of duty.

Locked Spaces

No person will have possession of the key to any space on board a naval unit other than the locker that is regularly assigned for the stowage of his or her personal property, unless such key is used in the performance of his or her regularly assigned duties.

No person will lock from the inside any office, shop, or other space on board a naval unit to prevent access to such space from without, except as may be authorized by proper authority.

Mess Gear

The removal of mess gear from the messdecks is prohibited. The senior petty officer in charge of the compartment in which mess gear is found will be responsible for its immediate return to the messdecks.

Motor Vehicles

No person will operate a government-owned motor vehicle assigned to a naval unit unless he or she has been specifically designated to do so by the CO, and then only for the purpose of official unit business.

All persons operating government-owned motor vehicles must possess a valid U.S. Government operator's permit or a valid state driver's license and will comply with all post, station, local, state, and federal directives pertaining to the operation of motor vehicles.

All persons operating government-owned motor vehicles assigned to a naval unit should obtain the permission of the OOD before driving such vehicles away from the unit and should report to the OOD upon their return.

Arrival and departure reports of vehicles assigned to naval vessels may be made to the beach guard.

Narcotics and Other Controlled Substances

All narcotics and other controlled substances authorized for medical purposes should be in the custody of the medical or dental officer. No one should have access to this material except as prescribed by these officers or the CO.

The medical and dental officers should supervise in person all receipts and issues of narcotics and other controlled substances in their custody and should keep proper records of all transactions to ensure strict accountability and detect losses promptly.

With the exception of medical and dental officers, no person should prescribe or administer any narcotics or other controlled substances either to himself or herself or to another person, except to aid the injured during action or emergencies. The medical and dental officers may authorize certain hospital corpsmen and dental technicians to administer narcotics and controlled drugs to patients in sick bay in according to the medical and dental officer's prescription.

In units to which no medical officer is attached, all narcotics and dangerous drugs must be in the custody of the controlled medicinal custodian, except small quantities of necessary narcotics and dangerous drugs that may be issued to the leading petty officer in the medical department. The narcotics and dangerous drugs should, if possible, be kept in a threecombination safe or, if this is not possible, under lock and key. All transactions between the bulk custodian and medical department representative should be receipted for. Issues from the working stock in the sick bay should be covered by prescription. Narcotics and dangerous drugs must be inventoried monthly by a special inventory board appointed for this purpose.

Official Forms, Records, and Correspondence

No person, having possession, custody, or control of official correspondence forms or records, will knowingly deliver them or divulge their contents to any person not authorized to receive them. 1-14

No person will sell, barter, or trade official correspondence, records, or forms for monetary gain or other considerations.

Outfits, Uniforms, and Clothing

No person will wear on board a unit any article of clothing that is unduly frayed, torn, dirty, or otherwise mutilated.

No person will wear on board a unit any article of clothing that is not prescribed as part of the uniform of the day without permission of proper authority.

No person will wear or otherwise display on his or her person on board a unit any article of a naval uniform in a manner that would bring discredit to the naval service or, in a manner other than it was intended to be worn.

If he or she is an enlisted person, possess on board a unit without permission from proper authority any article of uniform clothing that is not legibly marked with the owner's name and/or service number; or any article of clothing or bedding marked with the name and/or service number of another person that has not been marked DC by the Chief Master-at-Arms (CMAA) and recorded in the DC clothing record book.

No person will sell, barter, exchange, lend, or give away any clothing, arms, military outfits, or equipment furnished by the government. No names, designs, or marks except the number prescribed for official identification will be placed on any foul weather clothing or other equipment furnished by the government.

Personal Effects

Personnel will not maintain personal belongings or other articles in their custody or possession in any locker closet, peacoat locker, or space other than that which is regularly assigned to them or which they have been authorized by proper authority to use.

Each person is responsible for obtaining a lock and keeping his or her personal locker locked at all times. Any evidence of tampering with locks or authorized entry into a personal locker will be reported to the CMAA immediately.