GENERAL RULES:

ALL nominees for this award must be living individuals within one of the three established categories (Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard).

No District or Department winners may be certified for consideration of the Military Person of the Year for successive years.

Membership in the American Legion shall not be a requirement or consideration in qualifying any nominee for this award.

The nomination for this award of any member who sits on this committee shall not jeopardize that member’s position on this committee.  The nominee shall enjoy the same privileges and responsibilities as all other members.

Candidates for the Military person of the Year Award must be residents of the State of Indiana and /or be individuals assigned to an Active Duty, Reserve or National Guard unit within the State of Indiana.

POST & DISTRICT GUIDELINES:

Each Post shall select a Chairman whose responsibility will be to provide the District Committee with a suitable and qualified nominee for the award in each of three categories (Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard).

An official entry form shall be mailed out to each Post by The Department in February.

This form will be the only method acceptable for Posts to certify the name and

accompanying documentation to the District Chairman.

Each District Chairman shall set his/her own deadline for determining the District winner. 

Each District Chairman shall appoint a Committee of not less than three, or more than

five members whose responsibility shall be to judge all applications and select one winner

who shall represent that District in Department competition.

The District Chairman shall be responsible for the assembly of the District winner scrapbook.  This may be accomplished by a method of the Chairman’s own choice.

Scrapbooks will be three ring binders, 8 ½” x 11 ½ “ and only those provided by Department will be accepted.  Binders will be provided upon request from Department Headquarters between January 1^st and April 30th.

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Scrapbooks shall contain (14) acetate folders providing (25) sides for material to be

judged and one acetate folder for the Candidate’s entry form and one side for the rating

index form.  Submission should not exceed (25) single pages. A photograph of the

Candidate must be submitted.

Numbered tabs (dividers) are provided to separate the album into sections suitable for judging.

Deadline for certifying District winners to Department is Friday May 30, 2008. 

The appointed committee will make judging the afternoon of Sunday June 8, 2008.

Judging shall be by a specially selected panel of not more than five, or less than three

persons, and shall include at least one person with a professional background in the

military.

Department winners shall be declared on an accumulation of total points using the

following rating system:

       SECTION I          Professional Career      (0 to 20 Points)

       SECTION II         Community Service       (0 to 15 Points)

       SECTION III       Family                          (0 to 10 Points)

       SECTION IV       Letters of Recognition   (0 to 5 Points)

Entry forms provided by the Department shall be used as the sole instrument of certifying a nominee and shall not be used as a basis of accumulating points toward determining winners.  Final judgement shall be made from the documenting materials appearing on the 25 pages in the album.

The winners of The Department Award shall be the guests at The Department Convention

where the names of the winners will be announced from the podium during ceremonies. 

It is the responsibility of the District Chairman to assure the presence of their winner at

Department Convention.

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