Criminal Background Screening of Navy Recruits By:"Thomas Trent","Navy personnel research and developmentcenter washington dc" Published on 1998 by This paper reports the results of the National Agency Check/Local Agency Check/Credit Check (NACLC) Pilot Study initiated by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). The project was designed and executed by the Commander, Navy Recruiting Command (CNRC), in coordination with the Defense Security Service (DSS), to conduct criminal background investigations on a selected sample of enlistees. The DoD's security screening system has been under attack for failing to identify and discharge enlistees with criminal backgrounds. The principal weakness is that the Entrance National Agency Check (ENTNAC) does not generally have access to juvenile records, and many arrests or convictions go undisclosed (Philpott, 1997). In a study of juvenile and adult arrest records of recruits from California, Florida...