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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"army officers"”.
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The validation of the selection of male British army officers
… Board as a method for the selection of army officers. The research suggests that the Regular Commissions Board is moderately predictive of training and regimental performance, although little direct evidence is found that the Board is able to validly identify those who will be able to …
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Professional Identity of Army Officers in Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-1790
… the mid- to later 18th century by studying the army officers of Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy from the War of the Austrian Succession to the eve of the French Revolutionary Wars. It illuminates the character of such an officer class of ‘Military Europe’ with its own cultural customs and …
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Self-Assessments by U.S. Army Officers: Effects of Skill Level and Item Ambiguity on Accuracy
… made by Lieutenants and Captains in the U. S. Army. The results indicated that increased skill level resulted in increased accuracy of self-assessments while ambiguity had no effect. Counter to the hypothesis, as items became more ambiguous, both Captains and Lieutenants self-assessed more …
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The Impact of Non-Mandated Physical Training on Physiological Measures and Performance in Army Officers
… body composition and fitness assessments in US Army Officers after 5 months of non-mandated exercise. Twenty two captains stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia volunteered to participate (age; 26.9£1.2 years, height; 1.76+0.6m, and weight; 83.1+11.1kg). Eleven participants remained in active units …
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Army officers, historians and journalists : the emergence, expansion and diversification of British military history, 1854-1914
… History come to play an important role in army education, there were several universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, which taught the subject, while the Committee of Imperial Defence had created a ‘Historical Section’ dedicated to the writing of officially authorised histories. …
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Families-in-Arms: Kinship Networks of Arab Ottoman Army Officers from the Late Ottoman Empire to Postwar Syria and Iraq (1885-1932)
… birth of many of the individuals who served as officers and bureaucrats in the Ottoman military and civil service prior to and during the First World War. This study traces the trajectories and life writings of eleven such individuals who eventually served as Ottoman military officers during …
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The Last WACs : A Case Study Of Women In Leadership Focusing On Women In The Last Direct Commissioning Class Of The Women's Army Corps
… ceiling affected a unique population – women Army officers. The women Army officers in this study joined the service during the post Vietnam era, just as women were being integrated into the Army as full and equal partners with their male counterparts. None of the women from the last direct …
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Exploring Cultural Influences and Moral Experiences Behind Mental Illness Stigma in the U.S. Army
… interviews with ten active duty U.S. Army officers and nine East Carolina University Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets. Personal semantic analysis and narrative analysis revealed that army officers demonstrate strong cognitive links between physical fitness and behavioral …
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The Character Strengths of Australian Army Personnel
… delineate the character strengths of Australian Army personnel. Using a short-form survey incorporating Peterson and Seligman's (2004) taxonomy of 24 character strengths, four empirical studies were conducted containing samples of Australian Army officers, Special Forces (SF) personnel, and …
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Career commitment in an organizational setting
… of a mailed survey sent to a sample of Salvation Army officers in the United States. A major portion of the work involves the examination of the commitment concept as a dependent variable. The emphasis is on social psychological predictors with a view to developing a predictive model suitable for …
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A survey of officer career values in the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps and their effect on retention
This study examined to attitudes of Army and Marine Corps officers towards a set of career rewards, investigated the probability that these officers would receive the desired career rewards during their military careers and attempted to determine what relationship existed between the officers'' …
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A System Dynamics Approach to Analyzing U.S. Army Officer Talent Retention
This thesis investigates the retention of U.S. Army officers through a system dynamics approach, aiming to address the complex factors influencing officers' decisions to remain in or leave the service. By conducting a comprehensive literature review and synthesizing data from various secondary …
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Writing to think: a pilot program teaching writing to United States Army War College Fellows
… hosts several Fellows from the United States Army War College Fellowship. The Fellows are senior Army officers selected for a year of education in a non-military setting. In response to weaknesses in Fellow writing and in an effort to better understand policy implementation, the author …
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"""That meddlesome body"": The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War"
… President, created jealous rivalries among Union army officers, helped encourage the revival of political partisanship with its attacks on Democratic generals, and damaged public morale. In addition, the Committee's activities created an unhealthy precedent for future unwarranted and irresponsible …
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The Irish Army in the Congo
The National Army (N.A.) of the Free State (F.S.) had as its forerunner the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Many who fought in the Anglo Irish war with the I.R.A. continued their service with the N.A. in the civil war of 1922/3. Although there was heavy recruitment to the NA at the start of the …
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THE LOGISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, 1812–1821
… and transportation of supplies for the U.S. Army proved to be the most intractable military problem of the War of 1812. Logistics became the bane of successive secretaries of war and field commanders, and of the soldiers who fought the British and Canadian troops, and their native allies. …
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The Education of a Staff Officer: The Life and Career of Samuel Cooper, 1798-1852
Samuel Cooper was an officer in the United States Army from 1815-1861, and a Confederate States Army officer from 1861-1865. Cooper's long career as a staff officer in the U.S. Army culminated in his appointment to the post of adjutant general in 1852. With the onset of the sectional crisis in …
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‘Child Soldiers: a threat to Irish Peace Support Operations?’
… Child Soldier and a number of senior Irish Army officers who have served in UNMIL in a variety of prominent appointments. The findings give the reader an understanding of the phenomenon of the Child Soldier; in particular an appreciation of why children become soldiers, what they are likely …
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Military junior college early commissioning program : factors that impact the second lieutenant's success or failure at their follow-on institution.
… AL, and was sewn into the fabric used to develop Army officers. The ECP has played a critical role in affording young men and women the opportunity to earn a commission as an Army second lieutenant (2LT) in just two years. However, the program has changed and added various restrictions over the …
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