AFRS Instruction 36-2001, Air Force Recruiting, lists the below offenses as Category 3 Moral offenses. This list is just a guide. The Air Force will consider violations of a similar nature or seriousness as a Category 3 offense. When in doubt, the Air Force will consider any offense in which local law allows for confinement for over 4 months, but less than 1 year or more as a Category 3 offense. A conviction or adverse adjudication for any of the offenses listed is disqualifying for entry into the Air Force. The waiver approval authority is the recruiting squadron commander.
- Adultery.
- Assault (simple).
- Breaking and entering a vehicle.
- Check: insufficient funds (amount more than $50, worthless, or uttering with intent to defraud or deceive).
- Conspiring to commit a misdemeanor.
- Contempt of court (including nonpayment of child support or alimony required by court order).
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor (including purchase of alcoholic beverages).
- Desecration of a grave.
- Discharging a firearm through carelessness or within municipal limits.
- Drunk in public, drunk and disorderly, public intoxication.
- Failure to stop and render aid after an accident.
- Indecent exposure.
- Indecent, insulting, or obscene language communicated directly or by telephone.
- Killing a domestic animal.
- Leaving the scene of an accident (hit and run) involving no personal injury.
- Liquor or alcoholic beverages: unlawful manufacture or sale.
- Malicious mischief.
- Resisting, fleeing, or eluding arrest.
- Removing property under lien or from public grounds.
- Slander.
- Shooting from a highway or on public road.
- Shoplifting, larceny, petty larceny, theft, or petty theft (committed at age 14 or older or stolen goods valued over $50).
- Stealing property or knowingly receiving stolen property.
- Unlawful or illegal entry.
- Unlawful use of long distance telephone lines or any electronic transmission method.
- Use of telephone or any electronic transmission method to abuse, annoy, harass, threaten, or torment another.
- Wrongful appropriation of a motor vehicle, joyriding, or driving without the owner’s consent. If the intent was to permanently deprive the owner of the vehicle, treat as grand larceny or grand theft—auto ( Category 2 ).
