Explain military discipline and how it relates to the Navy.

Explanation could include, but is not limited to, the

  • procedures for applying discipline in the Navy
  • procedures for initiating and preferring charges on enlisted personnel aboard a Navy ship or shore station
  • process of apprehension, arrest, restriction, and confinement used in the Navy
  • procedure for preliminary inquiry leading to captain’s mast
  • basic classes of naval disciplinary actions
  • features of nonjudicial punishment
  • three types of military courts-martial
  • method for reviewing courts-martial
  • relationship between civil jurisdiction and military justice
  • methods used for disciplinary separations from the service.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • What are examples of disciplinary action?
  • What are the types of court-martial?