CTIP training required for UCI

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  • By Airman 1st Class Adawn Kelsey
  • 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs
SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  There are many Advanced Distributed Learning Services training modules that will be inspected for completion during the Unit Compliance Inspection in late January. One that is very important is the Combating Trafficking in Persons, which is a module within the Human Relations CBT.

This training has been marked as a discrepancy by UCI inspectors, during some of the most recent IG inspections this year because it is often incomplete.

"This training is soemthing that everyone must do," said 2nd Lt. Nikita Brown, 82nd Force Support Squadron Readiness officer in charge. "This training is being marked down time and time again in inspections at other bases. We need to have 100 percent compliance by January."

She said one way to do this is by coordinating with the unit training manager and the base training manager to make sure everyone has completed it. 

The CTIP training also includes education modules on coercion, commercial sex acts, involuntary servitude, and severe forms of trafficking in persons. 

According to the Wing Endorsement Memorandum signed by Brig. Gen. O.G. Mannon, 82nd Training Wing commander, on Combating Trafficking in Persons Department of Defense Instruction 2200.01 and Air Force Instruction 36-2991, CTIP is required for all Air Force Military and civilian employees to include Non-appropriated Fund employees. It is required for all local national employees in a direct-hire status by the DOD and is optional for contractors. 

However, the Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.222-50 states that the contractor must include the substance of the clause including the Mitigating Factor paragraph in all subcontracts. The FAR states that the contractor will notify all contracted employees of the United States Government's zero tolerance regarding CTIP. 

Lieutenant Brown said that there are flyers concerning the CTIP training posted on all the secretaries' desks bulletin boards. She said she will also be at Sheppard Start Nov. 3, manning a booth that will have information concerning things to know about CTIP.  Coming up there will also be posters set up in the hospital, Base Exchange, down stairs in Bldg. 402 and dining facilities. 

For questions you can reach Lieutenant Brown at 676-3374.