Download or read book General and Flag Officers written by Sharon A. Cekala and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Congress determines the maximum number of general and flag officers that the military may have by specifying service-specific ceilings. The Defense Dept. has been required to study officer requirements and to recommend changes to the law, if necessary. This interim report on DoD's progress to date reviews DoD's draft recommendations and estimates the cost to implement them, reviews the criteria the services use in doing their studies, compares troop strength to officer requirements, and determines whether certain general or flag officer positions may be candidates for conversion to civilian status. Tables.
Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of World War II Generals and Flag Officers written by R. Manning Ancell and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996-04-16 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a biographical synopsis for all of the general and flag officers who served the US on any active duty from December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945. Includes general officers of the US Army, the US Air Force, the National Guard, and the US Marine Corps and flag officers of the US Navy and the US Coast Guard. Officers includes those called to active duty from the Reserves, those brought from retirement to temporary active duty, and those promoted to high rank directly from civilian life. Appendices include a summary of birthplaces and dates and officers who died during WWII. Includes an index. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book General and Flag Officer Careers written by Harry Thie and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress has recently expressed concern that the current tenure system for developing general and flag officers does not effectively prepare them for handling increasing levels of responsibility and for performing with maximum efficiency at each level of assignment. This report assesses the continued appropriateness of mandatory retirement of general and flag officers after 35 years. It focuses on the value of extending tenure, specifically examining promotions, number of assignment, and career length. The study discusses two types of consequences resulting from such an extension. Systemic results of longer service lead to fewer promotions and fewer rising to the highest grades, but increased stability and experience. Career-path consequences indicate more depth or breadth of experience could result for officers. The appropriateness of continued mandatory retirement after 35 years depends, finally, on objectives. If the objective is rapid career-path movement to positions of responsibility, the 35-year limit accomplishes this. If the goal is more experienced officers and greater stability, removing the limit seems best. Decision makers will need to decide which objective is most important.
Download or read book General and Flag Officer Careers Consequences of Increased Tenure written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress has long taken a keen interest in the management of officer careers. It played a major role in the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act of 1980, the legislation that currently governs officer personnel management in all services. Recently, it has turned its attention to the tenure of the most senior military personnel, the general and flag officers. Although current law permits exceptions, it requires most flag-rank officers to retire once they have 35 years of active commissioned service. Congress is concerned that the current system does not adequately prepare officers for the most senior assignments. As a result of these concerns, Congress asked the Secretary of Defense to review the career patterns of flag-rank officers. It requested specific data about average time-in-grade both when selected and when promoted as well as the length of tours. It also asked the Secretary to assess the appropriateness of mandatory retirement at 35 years.
Download or read book Raising the Flag written by Kimberly Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the professional experiences and other characteristics general and flag officers in the military services tend to share due to each service's approach to personnel management, and potential implications of those approaches.
Download or read book Aligning the Stars written by Margaret C. Harrell and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DoD) experiences a high turnover from its general and flag officers (G/FOs). A concern exists that simply lengthening the stay of senior officers will only clog the system, stagnating promotions throughout the entire officer corps. In response to this, RAND researchers analyzed the current system, reviewed literature on corporate management practices, and modeled different ways of managing G/FOs. In addition to proposing variations to the promotion model, the authors address the concerns expressed by those in DoD and Congress about implementing such changes.
Download or read book African American Generals and Flag Officers written by Walter Lee Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed, career-oriented summaries are given for over 120 men and women who often overcame societal obstacles to become ranking officers in the U.S. military. Included are members of all branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps), as well as the National Guard and Reserve.
Download or read book General Flag Officer Worldwide Roster 1997 written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office of the Sec. of Defense; def. agencies; joint chiefs of staff; combined commands and agencies; unified commands; special activities/joint service colleges; dept. of army (forces command, field operating agencies, major CONUS commands, major overseas commands; Marine Corps. Forces (Pacific and Atlantic); marine expeditionary forces; marine forces reserve; marine corps commands (CONUS and Overseas); dept. of the Air Force (secretariat, air staff, Fld. Opr. Agencies, major commands); Dept. of the Navy (sec. of the Navy, chief of Naval Ops., Direct Reporting Units, Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, Naval Forces Europe).
Download or read book Promotion of Reserve Officers to General and Flag Ranks and Their Participation After Promotion written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General and Flag Officer Requirements written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General and flag officers (GFO) are the elite leaders of the U.S. military at the rank of brigadier general and above (for the Army, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps) and rear admiral and above (for the Navy). In 2003, the Dept. of Defense (DOD) determined that GFO requirements -- the number of GFOs DOD components need to fill positions -- were higher than the number of GFOs being authorized by Congress. However, in March 2011, DOD announced plans to eliminate 102 (11%) of GFO positions as part of DOD's efficiencies initiatives. Also, recent investigations of GFO misconduct have placed costs associated with GFOs under increased scrutiny by Congress. This report (1) identifies changes in the population and statutory limits for active duty GFOs relative to other active duty personnel, and the extent to which DOD updated GFO requirements; and (2) assesses what is known about the costs associated with active duty GFOs and their aides and trends in such costs, including trends in GFO compensation costs relative to those of other active duty personnel from FY 2001 through FY 2013. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book General Flag Officer Worldwide Roster 1998 written by George H. Stalcup and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office of the Sec. of Defense; def. agencies; joint chiefs of staff; combined commands and agencies; unified commands; special activities/joint service colleges; dept. of army (forces command, field operating agencies, major CONUS commands, major overseas commands; Marine Corps. Forces (Pacific and Atlantic); marine expeditionary forces; marine forces reserve; marine corps commands (CONUS and Overseas); dept. of the Air Force (secretariat, air staff, Fld. Opr. Agencies, major commands); Dept. of the Navy (sec. of the Navy, chief of Naval Ops., Direct Reporting Units, Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, Naval Forces Europe).
Download or read book Armed Forces General and Flag Officer Act of 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Adverse and Reportable Information Regarding General and Flag Officers written by Margaret C. Harrell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Title 10 of the U.S. Code requires consideration of adverse information by all general and flag officer boards. Also, adverse information is considered within the services and by the Secretary of Defense when nominating senior officers for assignment. The Secretary of Defense must issue certifications to the President and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) regarding this information. However, there is a diversity of sources and terminology used to describe events of concern and individuals involved in such events, and recent individual cases have suggested possible gaps in the processes overall. This study is intended to describe and evaluate the reporting practices of the Department of Defense (DoD) and thus ensure that consistent, reliable information supports decisions regarding the management of general and flag officers. The processes described within are complicated and there exists no single authority. Multiple representatives from each service have reviewed the descriptions of the service processes."--Preface.
Download or read book General and Flag Officer Authorizations for the Active and Reserve Components written by Federal Research Division Library of Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a contribution to the ongoing debate about whether the authorizations in Title 10 of the U.S. Code for general and flag officers (G/FOs) specify appropriate numbers and pay grades. Congress has not revised G/FO authorizations since 1996. The report addresses, in particular, the issues of whether the numbers and/or pay grades of G/FOs in the reserve component (RC) are commensurate with the increasing reliance upon the reserve forces in military operations, and whether G/FO strength in the RC is equitable compared to G/FO strength in the active component (AC). The report sheds light on these questions by examining current Title 10 authorizations and their near-term background and by providing a longer-term historical account of the fluctuations in G/FO levels in the AC over the entire post-World War II period. The report proposes that the salient concerns when G/FO levels are considered for the AC and the RC, respectively, have always differed. In the AC, the preoccupation tends to be with the size of the G/FO corps. Appropriate size is viewed as a function in part of the overall size of the force, and is often measured as a troop-to-officer ratio or proportion. In the RC, the preoccupation is with the degrees of institutional power that the RC's top officers can wield within the Pentagon and other decision-making venues. This preoccupation with greater institutional power or "voice" has mainly translated over the years into campaigns to increase the authorizations and opportunities for reserve G/FOs to serve above the two-star level, rather than campaigns to increase the overall size of the reserve G/FO corps. This different preoccupation, with G/FO pay grades rather than numbers in turn has meant that discussions about reserve G/FO strength are carried on without any systematic or longitudinal reference to troop-to-officer ratios or other such measures of proportional officer strength. Such measures of proportional numerical strength would be less meaningful in connection with the RC, because the claims that greater reserve G/FO strength are warranted do not rest on how large the reserve force is, but on how intensively it is used. Moreover, measures of proportional numerical strength would be, in any case, very challenging to use with reference to the RC, because of the plethora of categories of reservists, the shifts of duty status that reservists experience, and other factors.
Download or read book The Armed Forces Officer written by Richard Moody Swain and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Download or read book Enhancing the Performance of Senior Department of Defense Civilian Executives Reserve Component General flag Officers and Senior Noncommissioned Officers in Joint Matters written by Raymond E. Conley and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today's active-duty military has become progressively more joint. But in recent years, U.S. joint military activities have also seen higher participation rates by reserve component general and flag officers, senior civilians, and senior noncommissioned officers. This report examines the preparation of reserve component general and flag officers, senior civilians, and senior noncommissioned officers for participation in joint military activities. The authors interviewed a select group of senior people who had served at the highest executive levels of DoD and a number of senior members who had been identified as being exemplars with respect to participating in joint activities. They then used this information to develop their recommendations and worked with the appropriate OSD staffs to link them to possible initiatives." -- publisher's website.
