Serious Misdemeanor Offenses
Not an all inclusive list, but it should help you figure out how your charges may effect your enlistment, and who the waiver authority may be when you use the conduct waiver guide.
Misconduct Examples
- Aggravated assault, fighting or battery (more than $500 fine or restitution or confinement).
- Carrying of weapon on school grounds (non-firearm)
- Concealment or failure to report a felony.
- Contributing to delinquency of minor.
- Crimes against the family. (non-payment of court ordered child support/alimony)
- Criminal mischief (more than $500 fine or restitution or confinement).
- Criminal trespass.
- Desecration of grave.
- Domestic battery/violence, not considered Lautenberg Amendment.
- Driving while drugged or intoxicated, or driving while ability impaired, permitting a DUI.
- Illegal or fraudulent use of a credit card, bank card (value less than $500).
- Larceny or conversion (value less than $500).
- Leaving scene of accident (hit and run).
- Looting.
- Mailbox destruction.
- Mailing, to include e-mail, of obscene or indecent matter.
- Possession of marijuana or drug paraphernalia.
- Prostitution or solicitation for prostitution.
- Reckless, careless, or imprudent driving (considered a misdemeanor when the fine is $300 or more or when confinement is imposed; otherwise, considered a minor traffic offense).
- Reckless endangerment.
- Resisting arrest or eluding police.
- Selling or leasing weapons.
- Stolen property, knowingly receiving (value $500 or less).
- Throwing rocks on a highway, throwing missiles at sporting events, throwing objects at vehicles.
- Unauthorized use/taking of a vehicle/conveyance from family member, joyriding.
- Unlawful carrying of firearms; carrying concealed firearm.
- Unlawful entry.
- Use of telephone, internet, or other electronic means to abuse, annoy, harass, threaten, or torment another.
- Vandalism (more than $500 fine or restitution of confinement).
- Willfully discharging firearm so as to endanger life; shooting in public place.
Offenses of comparable seriousness should be treated as misconduct offenses. In doubtful cases, the following rule should be applied: “If the maximum confinement under local law exceeds four months but does not exceed one year, the offense should be treated as a misconduct offense.”
If you have any questions after reading the article, either contact your local recruiter, or you can ask me directly.
*** Once in the Navy, if you are arrested, you have an obligation to self-report the arrest immediately to your chain of command. Withholding that information would be a violation of a direct order and could be punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Page written and maintained by NCCM Thomas Goering, USN (Retired).
