Marine Corps Recruits: A Historical Look at Accessions and Bootcamp Performance

Abstract

CNA has maintained personnel databases for the Marine Corps for more than 30 years, with individual accession records going back to FY79. Just as long as we have been keeping the official records, we have been analyzing recruit characteristics and attrition through studies and scientific analyst memoranda. Over the years, we have identified characteristics that are particularly important to monitor because they are closely associated with successful adaptation to life in the Marine Corps. This annotated briefing analyzes the last 30 years, trying to answer the following questions: * Have recruit characteristics changed over time? * Have the relationships between recruit characteristics and subsequent attrition remained stable or have the patterns changed? * What characteristics are most important for predicting success in the Corps? While most of the focus is on accession characteristics and bootcamp attrition, we also look at first-term attrition and long-term retention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA530688

Entities

People

  • Aline O. Quester

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Artillery
  • Attrition
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Education
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Losses
  • Marine Corps
  • Minority Groups
  • Personality Disorders
  • Physical Disabilities
  • Recruiting
  • Training

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Library and Information Science
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.