{"id":28790,"date":"2021-02-11T20:39:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/11\/the-navy-has-no-idea-how-many-sailors-it-has-booted-for-extremist-activity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:35:42","slug":"the-navy-has-no-idea-how-many-sailors-it-has-booted-for-extremist-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2021\/02\/11\/the-navy-has-no-idea-how-many-sailors-it-has-booted-for-extremist-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy has no idea how many sailors it has booted for extremist activity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Navy has a regulation for everything, it sometimes seems, and kicking enlisted sailors out for \u201csupremacist or extremist conduct\u201d is no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the sea service has no idea how many sailors it has actually booted under that reg because it doesn\u2019t track such violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News of this knowledge gap comes as the Pentagon works to assess supremacist extremism in the ranks<\/a> following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 1910-160 of the Naval Military Personnel Manual, known in mil-speak as MILPERSMAN, covers \u201cseparation by reason of supremacist or extremist conduct\u201d and lays out the circumstances under which a sailor should be separated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMembers must be processed following disciplinary or administrative action for any substantiated incident of serious misconduct resulting from participation in supremacist or extremist activities,\u201d the regulation states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sailors must be processed out following disciplinary action taken for any substantiated incident that involves illegal discrimination or \u201cadvocating the use of force or violence against any federal, state, or local government or agency thereof, in violation of federal, state or local laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t