Download or read book Attrition in the Army from the Signing of the Enlistment Contract Through 180 Days of Service written by M. A. Fischl and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work addressed attrition from the Army's Delayed Entry Program (DEP) and the training phase of enlistment. The sample was the file of all non- prior service Active Army contracts executed in fiscal years 1992 and 1993, tracked in service through fiscal year 1995. Independent variables were all information the Army routinely collects with the signing of enlistment contracts; the dependent variable was the dichotomous attrited or still serving. The total N of 159,649 was divided into two halves. The first half was used to identify independent variables that discriminated the criterion groups, the second half to determine what the effect would be if those variables were used for pre-enlistment screening. Results indicated that AFQT Category IIIB individuals had attrition rates indistinguishable from IIIA scorers; that non- high school diploma graduates continued to be poor attrition risks, except for those who had participated in military youth programs; and that extremely heavy individuals were poor risks. The information was applied to screen holdout group files and construct plots cross tabulating cases which would have qualified or not, by attrited or still serving." -- Stinet.

Download or read book Military Attrition written by Carol R. Schuster and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25,000 enlisted personnel are being separated from the services in their first 6 months, during or shortly after they complete basic training. This report analyzes historical attrition rates for enlisted personnel who serve at least 6 months, but leave military service before completing their first contract terms. It determines (1) the rate and timing of attrition during enlistees' first terms; (2) the extent of DoD's investment in recruiting and training first-term enlistees; (3) reasons for first-term attrition after training; (4) servicemembers' perceptions of quality-of-life factors that contribute to attrition; and (5) actions the services are taking to reduce enlistees' attrition.

Download or read book Research Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Predicting 36 Month Attrition in the U S Military written by James V. Marrone and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyzes first-term attrition, using administrative data for all accessions across four military service branches in fiscal years 2002 through 2013 to show what characteristics predict attrition across the first 36 months of service.

Download or read book Effects of Moral Conduct Waivers on U S Army First Term Enlistment Attrition written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the U.S. Army's policy on granting moral conduct waivers and the effects of moral conduct waivers on the quality of service. The analysis investigates the wartime levels of recruits who were approved for different categories of conduct waivers. Research conducted includes multivariate analysis in the form of ordinary least squares regression models and probit regression models. This study employs U.S. Army MEPCOM data obtained from the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) for soldiers who enlisted between 2000 and 2006. I analyze first-term attrition as a function of age, sex, race, AFQT, rank, bonus size, education, prior service, youth program participation (such as JROTC), contract length, and all sub-categories of conduct waivers. In addition, I analyze attrition at 180 and 365 days for all cohorts. The study also includes a survival analysis to investigate whether conduct waivers affect the duration of survival during the first enlistment contract. The analysis reveals that the comparison of attrition rates between soldiers with wavers and those without does not remain constant and depends on when attrition is measured. At the beginning of the term, conduct waiver soldiers attrite at lower rates than non-waiver soldiers. However, at the end of the first term this pattern is reversed. Model results show that recruits in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) sample did not have a large difference in attrition rates between the waiver and non-waiver groups by the end of the first term of service. By breaking down the conduct waivers into sub-categories of waivers (substance, serious, and traffic), I find that there are significant differences between each group's attrition rates. These findings raise the question of whether the conduct waiver policy needs to be revised to better suit current wartime needs and demographic changes in the recruit population.

Download or read book Technical Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects of Moral Conduct Waivers on First term Attrition of U S Army Soldiers written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the U.S. Army's policy on granting moral conduct waivers and the effects of moral conduct waivers on the quality of service. The analysis investigates the wartime levels of recruits who were approved for different categories of conduct waivers. Research conducted includes multivariate analysis in the form of ordinary least squares regression models and probit regression models. This study employs U.S. Army MEPCOM data obtained from the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) for soldiers who enlisted between 2000 and 2006. I analyze first-term attrition as a function of age, sex, race, AFQT, rank, bonus size, education, prior service, youth program participation (such as JROTC), contract length, and all sub-categories of conduct waivers. In addition, I analyze attrition at 180 and 365 days for all cohorts. The study also includes a survival analysis to investigate whether conduct waivers affect the duration of survival during the first enlistment contract. The analysis reveals that the comparison of attrition rates between soldiers with waivers and those without does not remain constant and depends on when attrition is measured. At the beginning of the term, conduct waiver soldiers attrite at lower rates than non-waiver soldiers. However, at the end of the first term this pattern is reversed. Model results show that recruits in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) sample did not have a large difference in attrition rates between the waiver and non-waiver groups by the end of the first term of service. By breaking down the conduct waivers into sub-categories of waivers (substance, serious, and traffic), I find that there are significant differences between each group's attrition rates. These findings raise the question of whether the conduct waiver policy needs to be revised to better suit current wartime needs and demographic changes in the recruit population.

Download or read book Military Veteran Psychological Health and Social Care written by Jamie Hacker Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When servicewomen and men leave the armed forces, their care transfers to the statutory and third sector where the quality and provision of services can vary enormously. This edited book, encompassing a range of perspectives, from service user to professional, provides a comprehensive overview of services available. Each chapter, in turn, examines the policy underpinnings of systems and services covering the psychological health and social care of military veterans and then focuses on the needs of a discrete number of types of military veterans including early service leavers, veterans in the criminal justice system, older veterans and reservists, together with the needs of the children of veterans’ families. This is the first UK book to examine the whole spectrum of contemporary approaches to the psychological health and social care of military veterans both in the United Kingdom and overseas. The book is edited by Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, a former head of healthcare psychology within the UK Ministry of Defence and all contributors are experts in policy, service provision and academic research in this area. It will be of special interest to those designing and planning, commissioning, managing and delivering mental health and social care to military veterans and their families

Download or read book Military Attrition written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book List of U S Army Research Institute Research and Technical Publications October 1 1999 to September 30 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizational and Cultural Causes of Army First Term Attrition written by James V. Marrone and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army invests significant resources in recruiting, training, and preparing new soldiers. When a soldier does not complete a full contract term, the Army views this as a net loss. The goal of the research summarized in this report is to determine whether organizational factors matter for producing attrition and to generate hypotheses regarding the mechanisms by which organizational factors generate attrition. The authors made use of the random assignment of soldiers to their first battalion to determine whether the "luck of the draw"-the battalion to which the soldier is assigned and the senior noncommissioned officer (NCO) at that battalion-is directly linked to the observed variation across assignments in eventual first-term outcomes. The authors complemented that analysis with interviews exploring the factors that could be driving differences across units, such as leadership and command culture, availability of soldier supports, management of deployment and training cycles, and installation amenities. The quantitative part of the report shows that organizational factors affect attrition above and beyond the effects of soldier characteristics. The qualitative part highlights potential pathways through which battalion-level characteristics might manifest in differential attrition outcomes. Rather than conceptualizing attrition as a soldier being "fired" for poor performance, this report describes attrition as a process in which leadership may fail to provide needed interventions or to perpetuate a culture in which soldiers want to and are able to remain in service. The authors identify opportunities to address the factors under the Army's control that are associated with attrition. Book jacket.

Download or read book Predicting U S Army Enlisted Attrition After Initial Entry Training IET Using Survival Analysis Sophisticated Research Modeling Using Medical Information Dental and Hearing Readiness Important written by U S Military and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time since 2005, the U.S. Army fell short of its recruiting goal in 2018 by about 6,500 recruits. A strong economy and an increasing pool of recruit candidates who require a waiver to enlist add to the Army's recruitment troubles. Mental health issues, obesity, and other medical issues have become barriers that disqualify recruits from enlisting. For those who are eligible, they complete a training period called Initial Entry Training (IET). After finishing IET, many soldiers do not finish their first-term service obligation. This research continues the research conducted by Speten (2018) on post-IET attrition, with the added benefit of having medical data available in the Person-event Data Environment (PDE), a secure, virtual environment with a database that provides information on manpower, service, personnel, and medical data. Currently, no research has been conducted that uses detailed medical information to predict post-IET attrition. To estimate the expected number of soldiers who attrite at a specific time post-IET and prior to the end of their first-term obligation, we construct survival tree models using time-varying and time-constant covariates. We find several medical covariates that are important in forecasting attrition including dental readiness and hearing readiness. The effectiveness of the models is assessed on independent test sets. They perform well in predicting expected number of attrition, but not in predicting individual soldier attrition.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.For the first time in 13 years, the Army did not meet its recruiting goal (Dickstein 2018). This failure to recruit qualified personnel is especially dire in a time when threats from Russia and China continue to grow. One issue that continues to threaten the ability to recruit soldiers is the lack of a qualified pool of candidates. Criminal convictions, mental health issues, obesity, and other medical issues have become roadblocks that disqualify young recruits from enlisting. In the past, the Army has relaxed certain standards and has given waivers to enlistees for conduct, aptitude, or minor medical issues. However, in 2019, Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, mandated that fewer less-qualified recruits that require waivers be accepted into the ranks (Myers 2018). This research identifies the demographic and medical factors that contribute to first term service obligation attrition of enlisted U.S. Army soldiers who complete Initial Entry Training (IET). We develop a predictive survival model using survival analysis to forecast the probability that a soldier will either leave the service through attrition within the first t years into their first term or will continue to serve in the Army past their initial first term obligation. The data we use is stored and analyzed in the Person-Event Data Environment (PDE). The PDE is a remote cloud computer environment where data is stored centrally and accessed safely from verified users. The remote access feature of the database ensures there are no privacy or security breaches involving personal information. The PDE contains millions of records on Department of Defense employees, military personnel, and their family members. All personally identifiable information in the database is absent and each individual is assigned a unique Person Identifier (PID).

Download or read book Determinants of Post training Attrition in the Army and Air Force written by Richard J. Buddin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Success of First term Soldiers written by Richard J. Buddin and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the relationship between recruiting practices and conditions and the first-term success of Army soldiers. Success in the first term is important because recruiting soldiers is expensive. If soldiers fail to complete their first terms, the Army must recruit others to replace them, effectively doubling the cost. This monograph analyzes how current recruiting policies influence the success of first-term soldiers. It also examines how the Army manages first-term soldiers.

Download or read book Military Enlistment and Attrition written by John J. Antel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents a theoretical discussion and empirical analysis of enlistment and first-term attrition. The theoretical discussion gives rise to hypotheses about enlistment and attrition. The enlistment hypotheses take a supply view, treating military service as an alternative to further schooling or to work. The attrition hypotheses are inherently two-sided, considering first the value of enlistment to the individual and the likelihood that he is more prone to disappointment due to poor planning, and second, the value of the individual to the service and the chance that the service's eligibility screens were unable to identify low-productivity prospects. The empirical analysis is directed to the two prime recruiting markets from which the services draw high-quality male enlistees: high school seniors and nonstudent high school graduates. The study estimates sequential probit models for seniors and graduates separately, for both enlistment and six-month attrition and enlistment and 35-month attrition. The model produces estimates of the effect of individual characteristics on enlistment and on attrition, and controls for unobserved factors affecting both outcomes. The findings suggest that a small set of factors can reveal a wide range of attrition risk among enlistees. The factors are senior/graduate status, positive/negative education expectations, stable/unstable civilian employment history, and short/long participation in the Delayed Entry Program.

Download or read book Biobehavioral Resilience to Stress written by Brian J Lukey and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military service involves exposure to multiple sources of chronic, acute, and potentially traumatic stress, especially during deployment and combat. Notoriously variable, the effects of stress can be subtle to severe, immediate or delayed, impairing individual and group readiness, operational performance, and ultimately‘survival. A comprehensive co

Download or read book Military Personnel written by William Beusse and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DoD faces a significant challenge in recruiting & retaining the hundreds of thousands of new recruits it enlists each year. The last few years have been difficult for the military services as they have struggled to meet their recruiting goals. This recruiting crisis makes the services' problems with first-term attrition rates even more critical. The early separation of new recruits is costly in that the services' recruiting & training investment in each enlistee averages almost $38,000. This report assesses: (1) the services' responses to recent recruiting shortfalls, & (2) the services' efforts to reduce their historically high attrition rates for first-term enlistees. Charts & tables.