The Costs and Benefits of Increasing the Minimum Service Requirement for NROTC Graduates

Abstract

On 9 June 2008, during the Future Years Defense Program Officer Accessions Brief, the Chief of Naval Personnel requested more information on increasing the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) minimum service requirement (MSR) for newly commissioned officers from four years to five years. The present study used a distributed survey to assess the potential impact of increasing the minimum service obligation on NROTC program recruitment. The survey responses as a whole suggest that increasing the MSR from four to five years will have no impact on the propensity for college students to apply for scholarships for the NROTC program. In terms of specific demographic groups, the survey results suggest that the impact on female applications would be minimal, but the impact on minorities would be small but statistically significant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA493885

Entities

People

  • Karen J. Sankes

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Education
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Instructors
  • Military Training
  • Minority Groups
  • Native Americans
  • Naval Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Schools
  • Service Academies
  • Students
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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