Deployment, Retention, and Compensation

Abstract

This testimony speaks to two areas of continuing importance and current concern. These are the relationship of military deployment to the retention of military personnel, and the comparability of military compensation to civilian compensation. The testimony focuses on active duty personnel and draws on recent, published work done at the RAND Corporation by my colleagues and myself. First, perhaps the most striking observation about the effect of deployment on retention is that active duty personnel have shown themselves to be highly resilient to the demands placed on them by deployment. Although we must carefully consider the differences between the current level and type of deployment and those in the past in making any assessment, the analysis of past data at least gives us a starting point, namely, that deployments typically did not decrease retention and in many cases increased it.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA468650

Entities

People

  • James R. Hosek

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Compensation
  • Deployment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Health Care
  • Law
  • Military Education
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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