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[CITE: 10USC4318]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                           PART III--TRAINING
 
                     CHAPTER 401--TRAINING GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4318. Drill sergeant trainees: human relations training

    (a) Human Relations Training Required.--The Secretary of the Army 
shall include as part of the training program for drill sergeants a 
course in human relations. The course shall be a minimum of two days in 
duration.
    (b) Resources.--In developing a human relations course under this 
section, the Secretary shall use the capabilities and expertise of the 
Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).

(Added Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title V, Sec. 557(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1997, 
111 Stat. 1750.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 557(b) of Pub. L. 105-85, as amended by Pub. L. 106-65, div. 
A, title X, Sec. 1066(c)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 773, provided that: 
``Section 4318 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
(a), shall apply with respect to drill sergeant trainee classes that 
begin after the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the 
enactment of this Act [Nov. 18, 1997].''


      Reform of Army Drill Sergeant Selection and Training Process

    Section 556 of Pub. L. 105-85 provided that:
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army shall reform the 
process for selection and training of drill sergeants for the Army.
    ``(b) Measures To Be Taken.--As part of such reform, the Secretary 
shall undertake the following measures (unless, in the case of any such 
measure, the Secretary determines that that measure would not result in 
improved effectiveness and efficiency in the drill sergeant selection 
and training process):
        ``(1) Review the overall process used by the Department of the 
    Army for selection of drill sergeants to determine--
            ``(A) whether that process is providing drill sergeant 
        candidates in sufficient quantity and quality to meet the needs 
        of the training system; and
            ``(B) whether duty as a drill sergeant is a career-enhancing 
        assignment (or is seen by potential drill sergeant candidates as 
        a career-enhancing assignment) and what steps could be taken to 
        ensure that such duty is in fact a career-enhancing assignment.
        ``(2) Incorporate into the selection process for all drill 
    sergeants the views and recommendations of the officers and senior 
    noncommissioned officers in the chain of command of each candidate 
    for selection (particularly those of senior noncommissioned 
    officers) regarding the candidate's suitability and qualifications 
    to be a drill sergeant.
        ``(3) Establish a requirement for psychological screening for 
    each drill sergeant candidate.
        ``(4) Reform the psychological screening process for drill 
    sergeant candidates to improve the quality, depth, and rigor of that 
    screening process.
        ``(5) Revise the evaluation system for drill sergeants in 
    training to provide for a so-called `whole person' assessment that 
    gives insight into the qualifications and suitability of a drill 
    sergeant candidate beyond the candidate's ability to accomplish 
    required performance tasks.
        ``(6) Revise the Army military personnel records system so that, 
    under conditions and circumstances to be specified in regulations 
    prescribed by the Secretary, a drill sergeant trainee who fails to 
    complete the training to be a drill sergeant and is denied 
    graduation will not have the fact of that failure recorded in those 
    personnel records.
        ``(7) Provide each drill sergeant in training with the 
    opportunity, before or during that training, to work with new 
    recruits in initial entry training and to be evaluated on that 
    opportunity.
    ``(c) Report.--Not later than March 31, 1998, the Secretary shall 
submit to the Committee on National Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a 
report of the reforms adopted pursuant to this section or, in the case 
of any measure specified in any of paragraphs (1) through (7) of 
subsection (b) that was not adopted, the rationale why that measure was 
not adopted.''
