Assessing the Effect of Mobilization on Enlisted Reserve Retention

Abstract

Retention of personnel is as important for United States military organizations as it is for any organization to ensure continuity and effectiveness. The demands that the current long-term conflicts place on the military have affected the Navy, both Active and Reserves. Naval personnel are asked to do missions on shore with ground units in an Individual Augmentation (IA) billet. Many of these IA billets have been filled by mobilized reservists, particularly to the operations in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF). This thesis uses standard statistical modeling techniques to quantify the effects of these mobilizations on enlisted and officer retention, and in particular, mobilizations to certain operations, on retention. The results concluded that the operation that the enlisted reservist was mobilized to was the most important factor in determining retention. The reservist's paygrade and rating were also significant factors in predicting attrition. These results can help the Naval Reserve manage its manpower flows.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA531506

Entities

People

  • Sean J. Krispin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Force
  • Attrition
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Demography
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Reserves
  • Naval Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • Warfare

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
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