admittal

MILITARY - A formal, professional disclosure or confession provided in the interest of integrity and transparency, admitting to having made a mistake or engaged in acts of misconduct in one's past.

In order to enlist in the United States Army, I was compelled to formally submit a "self admittal" up the chain of command explaining in detail every law enforcement encounter I had in my past, and why I still believed it would be in the Army's best interests to consider me for enlistment and acceptance dispite my criminal background discrepancies.