The purpose of this study in the empirical analysis by individual personality of the volunteer soldiers, and "Air Force Volunteer Soldiers" as a case study, research and analysis intention to affect the expiry of the statutory length of civilian service to stay in the camp of the period by thisempirical results, and then provide the relevant departments of the national army to refer.This research adopts the investigation method of the questionnaire to collect the data. Mainly regard "Air Force Volunteer Soldiers" as the research object. Because of the fewer number of volunteer officers and soldiers trained by the Air Force Aviation Technology School, and is subject to investigation to the time when the actual questionnaires, so the recovery of the questionnaire is 200.According to the results and findings, of study, sum up the conclusion as follows 1. Air Force Volunteer Soldiers with a high degree of personality for emotional stability. 2. Air Force Volunteer Soldiers in a high degree of organizational commitment. 3. Significant difference in the personality of different background Air Force Volunteer Soldiers. 4. Significant difference in the personality of different background Air Force Volunteer Soldiers. 5. Different background of the Air Force Volunteer Soldiers in degree of organizational commitment are significantly different. 6. Air Force Volunteer Soldiers between personality traits and organizational commitment were significantly related. 7. Air Force Volunteer Soldiers personality predict the organizational commitment.

After the Civil War, the government needed to send an occupation force into Texas to help rebuild the state government and confront the French Imperialist forces that had invaded Mexico. Unfortunately, the government was required to use volunteers because the Regular Army was not yet prepared to handle such a mission. Using citizen soldiers for peacetime occupation was a break from past military tradition, and the men did not appreciate such an act. Historians of Reconstruction Texas have focused on state politics, the rampant violence in the state throughout this period, and the role of freedmen in situating themselves to an uncertain and hostile society. Studies of the military in post-Civil War Texas have examined the army’s role in the state’s political reconstruction, but largely ignore the soldiers. Additionally, these works tend to over-generalize the experience and relations of the troops and Texans. This thesis looks at Western citizen soldiers, comprising the Fourth and Thirteenth Army Corps as well as two cavalry divisions, stationed in Texas after the war from the Rio Grande to San Antonio to Marshall. Beginning with the unit’s receiving official orders to proceed to Texas after the surrender of the principal Confederate forces in 1865, it follows the movements from wartime positions in Tennessee and Alabama to peacetime posts within Texas. The study examines Texan-soldier relations as they differed from place to place. It also investigates the Westerners’ peacetime occupation duties and the conditions endured in Texas. The thesis argues that there was diversity in both the Western volunteers’ experiences and relations with occupied Texans, and it was not as monolithic as past historians have suggested. Specifically, this study endeavors to supplement the existing historiography of the army in Texas during Reconstruction. Broadly, this thesis also hopes to be a more general look at the use of citizen soldiers for postwar occupation duty.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 379 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-286). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on January 21, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Glen Cameron. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009. / Thesis advisor: Robert Wolff. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-77). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2003. / Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 19, 2003). "March 2003." Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126). Also issued in paper format.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, page: 3554. Adviser: John R. Herbold. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-239). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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