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AETCI 36-2909 19 AF Training Slides
AETCI 36-2909 19 AF Training Slides
to AETCI 36-2909
Recruiting, Education, Accessions, and
Training Standards of Conduct
AETC/JA
a/o 1 June 2017
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Overview
Personnel Subject to this Instruction
Mission Area Commanders
Responsibilities
Reporting Requirements
Professional and Unprofessional Relationships
Education and Training Abuse and Hazing
Academic Integrity
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AETCI 36-2909
Every Airman has a duty to act professionally, protect Americas honor,
and preserve the confidence of the American public
1.2.1-1.2.12 4
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AETC Personnel & Activities
Subject to this Instruction
Instructor
Officer, enlisted, civilian, and contract personnel who design, develop, deliver, and
assess learning of AETC trainees, cadets, and students
Staff
Non-instructor personnel assigned to a training or education environment, either
permanently or temporarily, who have direct contact with trainees, cadets, or
students
1.2.1.1-1.2.1.3 5
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AETC Personnel & Activities
Subject to this Instruction
Student
Personnel assigned to or on temporary duty to AETC bases, wings, detachments, or
schools to attend training programs (including enlisted or officer initial skills training,
supplemental or advanced training, and retraining) or educational (credit-bearing or
non-credit) courses of instruction
Includes personnel awaiting training programs or educational courses of
instruction
Distance learning
1.2.8 6
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AETC Personnel & Activities
Subject to this Instruction
Enlisted Initial Skills Training
Results in AFSC 3-skill level
1.2.9-1.2.12 7
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Mission-Area Commander
AETC Mission-Area Commanders (MACs) have significant responsibility
for setting and maintaining standards of conduct in their respective areas
of responsibility
1.4-1.4.1 8
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Responsibilities
Commanders and leaders at all levels:
Ensure applicants, recruits, trainees, cadets, and students are treated with dignity
and respect
Set the example
Address violations proactively, consistently, and at the appropriate level
Commanders specifically:
Maintain good order and discipline
Hold offenders accountable (disciplinary actions, personnel actions, maintaining
records)
Ensure superior commanders have proper situational awareness of allegations or
violations of this instruction
2.1.3.4, 2.7 10
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Reporting
Duty to Report
2.2.1 11
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Reporting
Knowledge means an awareness of an allegation. It does not require a
belief in the accuracy or truth of the allegation. Knowledge may be
obtained by any means, including but not limited to, witnessing the
offense; statements by third parties; email, text messaging, or social
media; and course surveys, critiques, or comment cards
2.2.1.1-2.2.1.2 12
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Reporting
Those receiving the reports will immediately forward the report through
appropriate channels to the alleged violators squadron or detachment
commander, unless otherwise exempted by law, regulation, or policy
2.2.1.3-2.2.1.4 13
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Professional Relationships
3.1-3.1.2 14
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Unprofessional Relationships
3.2 15
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Unprofessional Relationships
3.2.1-3.2.6 16
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Recruiters, instructors, and staff will be held primarily accountable for
unprofessional relationships with applicants, recruits, trainees, cadets,
and students, even if the relationships otherwise appear consensual
3.3.1-3.3.1.1 17
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Specifically permitted contact or association between recruits,
instructors, and staff and applicants, trainees, cadets, and students is
permitted under the following circumstances:
Necessary to accomplish AETCs mission
Between personnel with a prior blood or marriage relationship IAW this instruction
Related to informal professional interaction, outside-the-classroom mentoring, and
team-building activities, as defined in this instruction
Must be consistent with this instructions social prohibitions and MAC guidance
3.3.2-3.3.2.5 18
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Specifically permitted contact or association between recruits,
instructors, and staff and applicants, trainees, cadets, and students is
permitted under the following circumstances:
Between instructors and staff and students participating in one of the AETC
programs defined in 3.8.2.1, when no direct training relationship exists between the
instructors and staff and students and the student holds an AFSC (or equivalent from
another branch of the DoD) from a previous career field
Must be consistent with this instructions social prohibitions and MAC guidance
Between instructors and staff and students participating in one of the AETC
programs defined in 3.8.2.2, when no direct training relationship exists between the
instructors and staff and students
Must be consistent with this instructions social prohibitions and MAC guidance
3.3.2-3.3.2.5 19
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Informal Professional Interactions, Mentoring, and Team-Building
3.3.2.4, 3.7 21
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Informal Professional Interactions, Mentoring, and Team-Building
3.3.2.5 22
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Communication
3.4 23
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Pre-Existing Relationships
3.5.1 24
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Pre-Existing Relationships
3.5.2-3.5.4 25
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Informal Professional Interactions, Mentoring, and Team-Building
3.6 26
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Specific Prohibitions and Responsibilities
Trainees, cadets, and students will not engage in the prohibited activities
listed in this instruction, except as allowed by MAC guidelines
Instructors, and staff will not engage in the prohibited activities listed in
this instruction with:
Enlisted or officer students after training requirements complete, if a direct training
relationship exists, as defined by MAC
Recruiting Assistance Program (RAP) Airmen
Enlisted and officer students who have completed training through Initial
Skills Training will not engage in the prohibited activities listed in this
instruction with instructors or staff, if a direct training relationship exists
3.8.2.2-3.8.2.2.3, 3.9 29
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Prohibited Activities
3.8.3 30
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Prohibited Activities
3.8.3 31
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Unprofessional Relationships
Prohibited Activities
Allowing entry of personnel into their apartment, house, or other dwelling
Allowing entry of personnel into their privately-owned vehicles
Official business exception
Safety and welfare exception
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Prohibited Activities 19 AF Supp
Provides specific guidance for Sq/CCs in considering whether to allow
alcohol at outside-the-classroom activities
Allows Sq/CCs to approve social gatherings in clubs, bars, theaters, or
similar establishments in infrequent situations
Utilize criteria for all outside-the-classroom activities
Exercise particular caution when event would involve interaction between
instructors/staff and students in initial qualification training programs
Allows for greater latitude in graduate training programs
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Specific Prohibitions and Responsibilities
Recruiters and RAP* Airmen
Officer Applicants DODI 1304.33 Contact to
accomplish
Officer Recruits AETCI 36-2909 mission
AFROTC or TFOT From 1st contact through AFROTC, TFOT, COT, Contact between
RCOT, and officer initial skills training; continues for 6
Cadets prior
months after completion, the date the officer reports
to first permanent duty assignment, or date officer blood/marriage
COT or RCOT
arrives at follow-on training, whichever is later relationship
Officer Trainees
Official &
Officer Initial Skills Prohibitions apply regardless of whether a direct professional
Students recruiting or training relationship exists
contact
*Social Prohibitions on relationships between recruiters and
Immediate Family applicants and recruits also apply to relationships between RAP
Members Airmen and applicants and recruits.
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Specific Prohibitions and Responsibilities
Instructors and Staff
3.9.2 37
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Building Partner Capacity (BPC) Training Programs
3.9.2 38
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Building Partner Capacity (BPC) Training Programs
3.9.2 39
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Reporting and Documenting
3.10 40
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Education and Training Abuse
and Hazing
Leaders, instructors, and staff are responsible for safeguarding the
safety, morale, and welfare of assigned trainees, cadets, and students, to
include providing them with a healthy learning environment
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Education and Training Abuse
and Hazing
Maltraining Defined as:
Any practice by an instructor, staff member, or cadet training assistant;
Involving a trainee, cadet, or student;
With no reasonable connection toward a course training objective; and
That recklessly or intentionally causes, or is likely to result in, unlawful physical,
emotional, psychological, or financial harm
Consists of:
Cruelty, oppression, or maltreatment;
Of a military subordinate;
By a military superior
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Education and Training Abuse
and Hazing
Hazing
Conduct with no proper military or governmental purpose;
That recklessly or intentionally physically or psychologically injures or creates a
substantial risk of physical or psychological injury; and
Is done for initiation, admission into, affiliation with, change in status or position
within, or as a condition for membership in any military or DoD civilian organization
Includes acts in person or through other means, soliciting others to
commit acts of hazing, acts of hazing with actual/implied consent from
the victims, and acts occurring off duty or during unofficial functions
Includes acts among instructors and staff; between instructors/staff and
trainees/cadets/students; and among trainees/cadets/students
19 AF Supp: Alcohol shall not be consumed as part of any syllabus
training activity or other required event, and students shall not be
required/encouraged to consume alcohol to gain acceptance
4.2.3, 4.5 44
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Professional and
Unprofessional Relationships
Reporting and Documenting
4.7 45
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Academic Integrity
Ch. 5 46
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Conclusion
Personnel Subject to this Instruction
Mission Area Commanders
Responsibilities
Reporting Requirements
Professional and Unprofessional Relationships
Education and Training Abuse and Hazing
Academic Integrity
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