A goal of the officer qualitative management process is to ensure that only those individuals demonstrating satisfactory performance and possessing acceptable moral and professional traits be allowed to serve on active duty and retain appointments as officers. This handbook is designed to assist commanders in their exercise of the Officer Qualitative Management Process in conjunction with their personnel management responsibilities. It sets forth general procedures for the identification of officers whose character of service is contradictory to the Officer Qualitative Management goal as defined in Section II and discusses those tools available to the commander which make up the process. The tools discussed here are administrative and nonjudicial in nature. Continuous exercise of Officer Qualitative Management is necessary in order to properly identify and process cases of deficient officer personnel.

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