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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"USMC"”.
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An analysis of the USMC FITREP: contemporary or inflexible?
… evaluation system and; thirdly, compare the USMC promotion and assignment process with contemporary human resource management practices. Using data from the USMC Officer Accession Career file (MCCOAC), a logit model is used to estimate the effects of TBS preference and other officer …
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USMC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION SNCO DEGREE COMPLETION PROGRAM ACCOUNTING DEGREE
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is required by the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 to provide annual financial reports to stakeholders. For fiscal year 2021 and prior, independent auditors of these reports have produced a disclaimer of opinion with numerous material weaknesses and …
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SLEEP PATTERNS AND WELL-BEING OF PERSONNEL IN AN OPERATIONAL USMC SQUADRON
This study investigated the relationship between sleep, mood, and other occupational and demographic factors of servicemembers assigned to an operational squadron. Sixty-nine participants (53 males, 16 females) from VMFA-311 located at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California were enrolled in …
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Analysis of the United States Marine Corps' utilization of Defense Logistics Agency disposition services as a source of supply
… extent to which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is implementing reutilization through its use of DDS as a source of supply. The results and recommendations of this study will enable decision makers within the USMC and DLA to address institutional and systemic obstacles to maximum DDS …
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF TACTICAL MISSION PROFILES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF POWER PREDICTION SOFTWARE
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) needs to conduct an analysis of small unit power requirements. This study assesses both current and future (approx. 2024) small unit configurations, and the impact that operational conditions and tactical scenarios have on …
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Impact of quality of life on the reenlistment intentions of junior enlisted United States marines
… Marines. Data were extracted from the FY 2001 USMC Retention Survey. The data set was restricted to junior enlisted Marines in paygrades E2 through E4 with Active Duty Base Dates of calendar year 1998 and 1999 and was further stratified by gender. A complete conceptual model for reenlistment …
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Assignment problem for the U.S. Marine Corps: regional, culture, and language familiarization program
… optimize the assignment based on Marines and USMC preferences. We find that the benchmark integer programing model is the best in terms of assigning most Marines within their top four choices. Regardless, satisfaction rate of any of the three models are higher than the random assignment model.
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Unconscious Bias in United States Marine Corps Leadership Doctrine: Examining Microaggressions Through Document Analysis
… The United States Marine Corps (Marine Corps or USMC) is the military service with the least diverse officer cadre in terms of sex, gender identity, and race. The study results show a pattern of repeating unconscious bias-related content within the Marine Corps’ documents. Such patterns can …
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Operational energy/operational effectiveness investigation for scalable Marine expeditionary brigade forces in contingency response scenarios
… environment the United States Marine Corps (USMC) seeks to increase overall mission effectiveness, while maintaining or improving combat effectiveness, through efficient energy use in the battle space. This capstone project examined operational energy efficiencies through the specification, …
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Multivariate analysis of the effect of source and supply and carrier on processing and shipping times for issue priority group one requisitions
… destinations of Navy, Military Sealift Command, USMC ground forces, and select U.S. Coast Guard units operating in the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Fleet Areas of Operation (AORs), and major Fleet concentration areas within the United States. The primary focus is on determining whether source of …
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A system identification technique for predicting transient operation of gas turbine engines
… and steady-state operation from two F402-RR-406A USMC AV-8B engines at the Naval Aviation Depot (NADEP), Cherry Point, North Carolina. One engine was run to gather a single set of steady-state data consisting of 24 subsets of five seconds of data. The other engine was run to obtain two sets of …
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Evaluating human-EVA suit injury using wearable sensors
… on several different United States Marine Corps (USMC) protective gear configurations, which analyzed the human-gear interactions for: shoulder flexion/extension, horizontal shoulder abduction/adduction, vertical shoulder abduction/adduction, and the cross body reach. Findings suggest that as suit …
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Objectively Defining Scenario Complexity: Towards Automated, Adaptive Scenario-Based Training
… such systems as the United States Marine Corps* (USMC) Abrams Main Battle Tank (M1A1) Advanced Gunnery Training System (AGTS). Even as the practice of simulation training grows, leadership such as the Government Accountability Office asserts that little has been done to demonstrate simulator …