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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"U.S. Marine Corps"”.
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Creating Better Citizens? Investigating U.S. Marine Corps Basic Training
… branch of the United States (U.S.) military, the Marine Corps. I conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 10 enlisted Marine Corps veterans and 7 drill instructors to ascertain their perceptions regarding the didactic aspirations and pedagogies of their service's basic training related …
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Assignment problem for the U.S. Marine Corps: regional, culture, and language familiarization program
U.S. Marine Corps recently developed the Regional, Culture, and Language Familiarization Program (RCLF), which assigns newly promoted sergeants and commissioned officers to one of the 17 regions established by the RCLF office. As of now, there is no formal process established in assigning Marines …
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Classification trees outperform logistic regression predictions of attrition in the U.S. Marine Corps
… Delayed Enlistment Program in the United States Marine Corps (UMSC) with scores from the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS). The base-rate of attrition was low which made the model training process difficult, but the random-forest model outperformed logistic regression in …
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Study of Personnel Attrition and Revocation within U.S. Marine Corps Air Traffic Control Specialties
This thesis evaluates U.S. Marine Corps Air Traffic Control (MATC) military occupational specialties (MOSs) to determine methods of reducing personnel attrition from the MATC Basic Course and revocation from operational forces. The author analyzes Marine Corps personnel data obtained from the Total …
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Survival analysis of the modernized retirement system for the United States Marine Corps
… within the active component of the U.S. Marine Corps to compare expected lengths of service between the current retirement system and the Modernized Retirement System. The analysis utilizes Kaplan-Meier survival analysis for expected lengths of service and probit regression models to …
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Marine Corps Joint Officer Management policy and O-7 Joint Service Officer requirements
… constituted a qualitative analysis of current Marine Corps Joint Officer Management policy. The research was conducted at the request of Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps to review current policies and their effectiveness in supporting the requirements in the FY 05 …
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Standardization of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) defense within the Fleet Marine Force (FMF)
… training and operations within the U.S. Marine Corps. It presents a standardization proposal designed to remedy the existing incongruities and establish a viable NBC defense program for the Fleet Marine Force.
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MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS–DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY’S PROCEDURES FOR GROUND REISSUES / SECONDARY SALES OF AVIATION FUEL ALIGNED WITH AUTHORITIES SUPPORTED BY U.S. NAVY AVIATION APPROPRIATIONS
… of Defense, Department of the Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps processes surrounding the secondary sales of aviation fuel and its alignment and compliance with appropriations law. Assessment of written processes is used to identify possible breakdowns in the current practices of Operations and …
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Identity crisis : the role of organizational culture in defining public affairs and its roles, missions, and value in the United States Marine Corps
… of public affairs missions within the U.S. Marine Corps from the perspective of public affairs practitioners and Marine Corps infantry officers. Marine Corps majors in the public affairs field and in infantry-related career fields were asked a series of questions via on anonymous, online …
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A PATH ENUMERATION REFORMULATION OF THE SCHEDULE MIXED INTEGER PROGRAM SUPPORTING EXPEDITIONARY ADVANCED BASE OPERATIONS.
The U.S. Marine Corps needs an accurate model for analyzing its logistical needs in support of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO). EABO is a doctrinal method used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for denying adversary forces access to the maritime global commons. Deployment and …
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A Marine Corps Enlisted inventory projection model using years of service and pay grade
Currently, the United States Marine Corps is required by Congress to maintain its end strength between one-half percent below and one percent above 174,000. The main method of meeting this requirement is through careful accessions planning by the manpower planners at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps …
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The Elite of the Elites: the U.S. Marine Raider Battalions, 1942-1944: A Case Study in Elite Military Organizations
In 1942, the U.S. Marine Corps activated the Marine Raider battalions, the first American special forces units of World War II. However, the introduction of an elite subculture within the ranks of the Marine Corps, which already prided itself on being the nation's elite fighting force, resulted in …
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MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS BASED ON ATTRIBUTES
… as officers in either the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps. The results of the MLQ 5X indicated that the group of career military officers scored higher than Bass and Avolio's normative group in seven of the nine leadership styles and in all three of the leadership outcomes. The two leadership …
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Demography, Nest Site Selection, and Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Overflights and other Human Activities, of Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) at Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina
… where the National Park Service and U.S. Marine Corps recently lowered the altitude for overflights at tactical speeds. I monitored the responses of incubating Wilson's Plovers to overflights and other human activities and compared heart rate, incubation rate, and vigilance behaviors …
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First War Syndrome : military culture, professionalization, and counterinsurgency doctrine
… education in three militaries (U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and British Army). The case studies then test how these organizations responded in terms of doctrine and operations to the challenge of counterinsurgency in South Vietnam (U.S. Army and Marine Corps), Kenya (British Army) and Iraq (all …