Air Force Category 2 Criminal Offenses

AFRS Instruction 36-2001, Air Force Recruiting, lists the below offenses as Category 2 Moral offenses. This list is just a guide. The Air Force will consider violations of a similar nature or seriousness as a Category 2 offense. When in doubt, the Air Force will consider any offense in which local law allows for confinement for a year or more as a Category 2 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 a recruiting group commander or vice commander.

• Arson.
• Aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, intentionally inflicting great bodily harm, with intent to commit a felony (adjudicated as a juvenile only).
• Attempting to commit a felony.
• Breaking and entering a building with the intent to commit a felony.
• Bribery (adjudicated as a juvenile only).
• Burglary (adjudicated as a juvenile only).
• Carrying a concealed firearm or unlawful carrying of a firearm.
• Carrying a concealed weapon (other than firearm), possession of brass knuckles.
• Child pornography offenses.
• Conspiring to commit a felony.
• Criminal libel.
• DUI or DWI: driving under the influence of, or while intoxicated or impaired by, alcohol or drugs.
• Embezzlement.
• Extortion (adjudicated as a juvenile only).
• Forgery: knowingly uttering or passing a forged instrument (except for altered
• identification for purchase of alcoholic beverages).

• Grand larceny.
• Grand theft.
• Housebreaking.
• Indecent assault.
• Involuntary manslaughter.
• Leaving the scene of an accident (hit and run) involving personal injury.
• Lewd, licentious, or lascivious behavior.
• Looting.
• Mail or electronic emission matters: abstracting, destroying, obstructing, opening, secreting, stealing, or taking.

• Mail: depositing obscene or indecent matter (including electronic or computerized
• e-mail or bulletin board systems and files).
• Maiming or disfiguring.
• Marijuana: simple possession or use.
• Negligent homicide.
• Pandering.
• Perjury (adjudicated as a juvenile only).
• Prostitution or soliciting to commit prostitution.
• Public record: altering, concealing, destroying, mutilating, obliterating, or removing.
• Riot.
• Robbery (adjudicated as a juvenile only).
• Sedition or soliciting to commit sedition.
• Selling, leasing or transferring a weapon to a minor or unauthorized individual.
• Sexual harassment.
• Willfully discharging firearms so as to endanger life or shooting in public place.