Recruiters, under pressure to meet end-of-month goals, often work feverishly to meet their monthly recruiting goals. This thesis uses regression models to examine the effects of day of month of enlistment on Marine Corps Recruit Depot attrition percentages to examine the hypothesis that recruiters lower their standards at the end of the month in a final effort to make their monthly recruiting mission. The Total Force Data Warehouse provided data for over 50,000 recruits who enlisted and shipped to recruit training between October 2003 and May 2005. Of those, over 5,500 (10.62 percent) failed to complete the prescribed training. In the logit regression models, discharge was modeled against demographic variables such as age, gender, race, education level, and AFQT score, as well as variables representing the day of the month a recruit enlists (last day, last week, or last 10 days of the month). Prior research has found that DEP attrition is higher for recruits who enter the Marine Corps at the end of the month. By contrast, the data analyzed in this study show that once a Marine Corps enlistee ships to a recruit training depot, there is no statistical evidence of higher attrition rates in basic training based on the day the recruit enlisted.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Stephen L. Mehay, Kathryn M. Kocher. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88). Also available in print.

This thesis examines the administrative separation process and attrition documentation as well as the characteristics of recruits who attrite from the U.S. Navy's Recruit Training Command (RTC). A random sample of 754 "retained files" from Customer Service Desk RTC was examined for attrition documentation and the information obtained was compared with attrition documentation contained in the Corporate Enterprise Training Activity Resource System (CETARS). The comparison is used to determine the accuracy of CETARS in documenting the reasons for medical and psychiatric attrition and its relationship to Separation Program Codes (SPD) listed on the DD 214 discharge form. The results indicate that CETARS is 95.2 percent accurate in documenting medical reasons for attrition and 94.2 percent accurate for psychiatric reasons. It was unclear whether a relationship existed between SPD codes and CETARS in documenting attrition. The specific reasons for psychiatric attrition include the following: Personality Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In addition to the analysis of attrition documentation, we analyzed data on 216,028 recruits entering RTC between fiscal year 2000 and 2004 to determine the predictors of non-psychiatric attrites versus psychiatric attrites. Logit regression found that the predictors of both types of attrition were similar.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006. / Thesis Advisor(s): Mark J. Eitelberg, Stephen L. Mehay. "March 2006." Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1997. / Thesis advisor(s): Rosenthal, Richard E. "December 1997." Includes bibliographical references (p. 109). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1994. / Thesis advisor(s): Larson, Harold J. "March 1994." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1994. / Thesis advisor(s): Whitaker, Lyn R. "June 1994." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1995. / Thesis advisor(s): Whitaker, Lyn R. "March 1995." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999. / Thesis advisor(s): Eitelberg, Mark J. ; Mehay, Stephen L. "March 1999". Includes bibliographical references (p. 105). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006. / "March 2006." Thesis Advisor(s): Stephen L. Mehay, William D. Hatch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62). Also available online.