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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / Marine Administrative Message 441/99 directed that Marine Corps administration be consolidated above the battalion level. Secondly, Marine Administrative Message 027/04 directed that over 1,300 Marine Corps billets be civilianized. To embrace both of these directives, this thesis has attempted to describe the consolidation of administrative functions within U.S. Marine Forces, Pacific to the installation level and the civilianization all non-inherentlygovernmental structure. The active duty manpower savings would total 120 marines while actually decreasing the cost of the activity of conducting administration for Oahu-based units by $1 .3 million. It is necessary to consolidate if all 120 billets are to be civilianized. If consolidation does not occur, then the Marine Corps administrator billets within the deploying units will remain inherently-governmental and unavailable for conversion. It is only through the centralizing of non-military tasks that civilianization can be optimized. A deployable cell concept is described to support the 14 deploying units from Oahu. This concept will have to dovetail with future technologies to successfully deploy over-the-horizon administrative support. / Captain, United States Marine Corps

This thesis explores the civilian career experiences of United States Naval Academy (USNA) graduates who have left military service. The data comes from a 2004 survey of USNA graduates from the classes of 1986 through 1996. This thesis analyzes the effect of human capital accumulated via the USNA education, via follow-on military experiences, and via career preparation on civilian salary and satisfaction. Both the first salary after leaving the military service and the current salary are analyzed. Both salary models find that varsity athletes, honors graduates, submariners, and those who achieved higher military ranks earn more than their classmates. Military tenure increases civilian salary, but the effect diminishes after a certain point. Selective Reservists consistently earn lower civilian salaries. The write-in responses reveal that leadership, academics, time management and other personal skills provide the most influential USNA experiences on current civilian jobs. While 84 percent describe themselves as satisfied, a satisfaction model is estimated to examine for trade-offs between salary and satisfaction. Satisfaction is further examined by evaluating the effect of civilian accomplishments. The estimates find that Marines, Naval Aviators, and Trident Scholars are more likely to be dissatisfied than satisfied. Military tenure yields a tradeoff between wages and satisfaction.

The thesis identifies F/A-18 squadron characteristics that are important predictors of maintenance performance and draws insights on the linkage between the utilization of engineering and technical services (ETS) and maintenance performance measures. Statistical analysis is conducted to identify squadron characteristics that have a detectable contribution to the variability of the performance measure man-hours per maintenance action, and how much additional variability is explained by the squadron that is not accounted for by the squadron characteristics already considered. Thirty months of data were collected for thirteen active duty Marine Corps F/A-18 squadrons. Regression is used to model man-hours per maintenance action as a linear combination of explanatory variables that describe the squadrons in terms of manpower, inventory, and ETS metrics. The test for significance indicates that the model developed in this study is highly likely to have better explanatory power than an intercept-only (average) estimate of the response variable. The study concludes with recommendations for data collection methods that would facilitate the correlation of squadron characteristics to ETS utilization. Critical to the success of this approach is the linkage of ETS utilization to specific squadron maintenance activities, and the development of methods to quantify maintainer training currency.

RA requested that these models be examined in an effort to combine the functionality of each. This thesis builds a model that does just that. The fundamental concept of the model involves taking the current inventory of Marines (by military occupational specialty [MOS] and grade) and applying transition rates to each of them in order to determine how many are in what state at the end of the upcoming year. The necessary number of reenlistments is then calculated by subtracting the forecasted inventory from a desired force structure known as the Grade Adjusted Recapitulation. Manpower planners can use the results of this model to establish the number of boat spaces for each of the first-term MOSs as well as recommended reenlistment goals for the subsequent-term MOSs.

Defence Force Recruiting (DFR) is responsible for all ab initio recruitment of full-time and part-time Officer appointees and general entry enlistees into the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to serve in the Australian Army, Navy or Air Force. Despite the merging of single-service selection systems into a tri-service system and the commercialization of significant components of ADF recruitment functions in 2001, recruiting achievement continues to be below the targeted levels essential to maintain the ADF personnel strength necessary for operations. An assessment of the recruiting system to enable managerial overview and performance evaluation is warranted. Using avant-garde commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) process modeling software a Recruiting System Model (RSM) will be built that captures the entire recruiting system in three dimensions. This will become a tool for Defence and DFR managers at all levels that will enrich their ability to assess, analyze, and improve the recruiting system. Ultimately it will help identify the components of the Recruiting System that are functioning in a manner detrimental to achieving ADF recruiting goals and provide the means to predict the effects on recruiting achievement of multiple courses of actions. The RSM incorporates a visual graphical depiction of the ADF recruiting system as well as numerical throughput rates and yield ratios for the processes and sub-processes internal to the recruiting system. The RSM enables cross-functional managerial control in a versatile and adaptable platform.

This thesis approaches the theme of Hispanics in the military utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify their role in meeting the militaryâ s future manpower needs. The qualitative portion of the study begins with an examination of the historical record of diversity in the military. Contemporary information is derived from interviews with active duty Hispanic personnel, high school counselors and JROTC instructors. The results of the interviews suggest positive views of diversity and reinforce the strong influence of family members and friends in the career decision-making process for Hispanics. The high school dropout rates of Hispanics were attributed to non-traditional family lifestyles and poor English-language skills. The quantitative portion of the study undertakes econometric analysis of military attrition, promotion, and retention of Hispanic enlistees. Enlisted cohort data for all services from 1992-2005 was used to estimate the multivariate attrition, promotion, and retention models. The results of the statistical analyses suggest that Hispanics have lower predicted rates of first-term and early attrition, and higher rates of retention beyond the first term and of promotion to E-4. The authors recommend additional studies focusing on JROTC, Hispanic Officers, marketing and diversity management training.

This research was conducted per a Navy Warfare Development Center request that the Naval Postgraduate School update the Navy's TACMEMO: Integration of UVs into Maritime Missions TM 3-22-5-W. Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) are expected to becoming an integral part of the Navy's maritime mission. To incorporate USVs into the fleet, manpower issues must be identified and resolved, i.e., manning requirements supporting USV operations; and analysis of the rate/rating, skill sets, training and procedures required to operate and maintain USVs. The methodology included Navy lessons learned, operation evaluation reports, and technical documentations from past and ongoing fleet employment of USVs to identify manning issues. Research findings included: current USV launch-and-recovery systems on host ships are personnel intensive compared to other available systems; knowledge, skills and abilities required of USV support personnel are identified within the BM, EM, EN, ET (Surface), GM, IT, OS, STG (Surface) rating occupational standards, and it would be easier to train personnel from these ratings for USV support; and a formal training path should be established for USV operators. In consonance with Navy Human Capital direction, naval platforms must operate with reduced manning, however, unmanned systems definitely require trained and specialized personnel to operate and maintain.

With the development of new concepts in military operations and reductions in manpower of our military forces, the promotion of autonomous systems has been pushed to the forefront. Autonomous containers will play an essential role in the ability to deliver logistical supplies to waterborne littoral vessels enabling them to maintain station and complete there military operations while reducing the threat to personnel. Programmed to deliver supplies to a specified local in a reasonable timetable, these containers will play an essential role to vessels such as Riverine Warfare patrol craft, Special Operations craft and Coast Guard search and rescue boats. Development of a successful autonomous system that can deliver logistical supplies in littoral human threat arenas would serve as an immense reduction in logistical supply costs. The research that is to be conducted will focus on the unique characteristics of an autonomous sustainment cargo container and its throughput evaluation. Use of geometric data and static stability is analyzed and compared. In depth analysis primarily focuses on the hull characteristics of the container and whether subtle alterations to the bow and stern units reduce the resistance and increase the efficiency of the deliverability rate of the autonomous system. / US Navy (USN) author.

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