COMBAT PERFORMANCE OF EM WITH DISCIPLINARY RECORDS

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to clarify the relationship between disciplinary behavior and combat performance and to assure that operational utilization of a set of valid measures designed to eliminate the potential troublemaker would not also serve to eliminate a needed type of combat soldier in times of open conflict. Combat ratings obtained on enlisted men serving in the Korean War were analyzed to compare the fighting effectiveness of men with precombat court-martial conviction and men with 'clear' records. In an enlistee (RA) sample (incidence of court-martial conviction in the inductee (US) sample was too small for analysis) men with precombat court-martial convictions were on the average poorer combat soldiers than were men with no such convictions. The RA component had a larger percentage of other-than-honorable discharges than did the US component (17% vs 2%; and, among those receiving honorable discharges, a larger percentage of the RA men had records of court-martial conviction (20% vs 3%).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0605280

Entities

People

  • A. U. Dubuisson
  • W. A. Klieger

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Personnel
  • Basic Training
  • Coefficients
  • Court Martial
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Inventory
  • Korean War
  • Noncommissioned Officers
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Ratings
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.