An Analysis of Officer Accession Programs and the Career Development of U.S. Marine Corps Officers

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to identify and evaluate factors that affect career development of U.S. Marine Corps officers. The analysis includes evaluation of fitness reports, performance at The Basic School (TBS), retention, and promotion to 0-4 and 0-5 ranks. The primary goal is to explain the effect of officer commissioning programs on officers' careers. The personnel database used for the analysis includes more than 28,000 Marines who entered between FY 1980 and 1999. The performance models assume that commissioning programs that provide longer and more intensive pre-commissioning acculturation, or that credit enlisted service experience, will be associated with better performance Performance models are specified and estimated for TBS class rank, retention to 10 years of service, promotion to 0-4 and 0-5, and for a Performance Index (PI) derived from fitness report marks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA414855

Entities

People

  • Levent Ergun

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Databases
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Training
  • Minority Groups
  • Officer Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Probability
  • Service Academies
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy

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