Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / This thesis compares the effects of Marine Corps graduate education programs, categorized as either Professional Military Education (PME) or Non-PME, on officer performance. The intent of the thesis is to provide empirical evidence to support or refute Marine Corps cultural perceptions that PME improves officer performance more than Non-PME graduate education. A performance index (PI) is derived from the current Marine Corps fitness report system and averaged before and after graduate education for PME and Non-PME graduates and for a group of officers without graduate education (NOS). Data from the Marine Corps Total Force Data Warehouse are used to assess the marginal effect of graduate education in models that also included demographic, affective and cognitive traits. ANOVA results for O4s show significant improvement in performance over time for all groups (PME, Non-PME and NOS), with the largest improvement for PME and the smallest for NOS, although differences between groups are not significant. Multivariate regressions indicate that, after accounting for other influences, the post-education performance of those with graduate education is not significantly different from those without (NOS). The change in performance between before and after receiving graduate education is not significantly different for PME and NOS, while it is slightly lower for Non-PME than for NOS (significant at .10 level). A limitation of the study is that the data only covered four years of fitness reports. Thus, we were not able to assess the long-run effects of graduate education on officer performance. / Major, United States Marine Corps / Captain, United States Marine Corps

This thesis was completed in cooperation with the Cebrowski Institute for Information Innovation and Superiority. / Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / A of the NP, but the key requirement for Certification and Accreditation is the creation of a Protection Profile and an understanding of the DITSCAP requirements and process. This thesis creates a Protection Profile for the NP along with a draft Type SSAA for Certification and Accreditation of the NP. / Lieutenant, United States Navy / Lieutenant, United States Navy

There is concern that the current approach to the peacetime medical mission of Navy Medicine does not adequately address the need to provide its personnel with the skill sets necessary for the surgically intensive environment associated with the wartime mission. Navy Medicine has shifted its focus on the delivery of health care over the last decade from treatment and intervention to prevention, health promotion and population health initiatives. This focus makes good business and clinical sense from the managed care and population health perspective. This thesis examined Navy Medicine's inpatient and outpatient surgical workload and military staffing to determine the level of support it provides for the readiness mission. A trend analysis was performed using workload data from the Medical Expense and Performance Reporting System between fiscal year 1999 and 2002. This analysis shows that there has been an overall decrease in the amount of inpatient surgical workload for all surgical specialties. However, not all surgical specialties have observed an increase in outpatient workload over this same time period. Additionally, an examination and trending of end strength data for the Medical Corps and Nurse Corps using primary subspecialty codes was performed for fiscal years 1990 through 2002. The results indicated that while there have been few changes in overall end strength over the last decade, changes in specialties have occurred consistent with an emphasis on a medical model that focuses on outpatient primary care. The evidence suggests an emerging gap between the dual missions of Navy Medicine that warrants further investigation as to its potential impact on medical readiness. / US Navy (USN) author.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

The text is a study of the American merchant fleet from 1945-1961. The study outlines the decline of the fleet during this period. The decline was precipitous, and eventually threatened the fleet's ability to support military demands in the event of a large-scale mobilization. The failings of the merchant marine became apparent as the Vietnamese build-up escalated under Lyndon Johnson. By itself, the American fleet was no longer able to maintain the Vietnamese lifelines. / The text also examines federal legislation which affected the size and composition of the American merchant fleet. The Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, the "Long-Range" Shipping Act of 1953, and later Tanker and Passenger Constriction Acts are detailed. Emphasis is given to the role of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations in the passage of these acts. / The basic thrust behind the study is that the United States allowed a vital defense related tool to deteriorate during the early postwar period. In 1945, the American fleet was unsurpassed. Problems of finance, obsolescence, subsidization, and labor, however, led to a rapid decline. A basic problem existed. Because of greater operating, building, and labor costs, American ships were more costly to own than were competitors registered under foreign flags. As a result, hundreds of ships, which might have joined the American fleet, were registered instead in countries like Panama and Liberia. As foreign registration promised greater profits for these operators, they took their vessels away from American registry. This deprived the American fleet of needed replacement vessels, and resulted in a reliance on foreign vessels to carry American goods. The text details the resulting rise of "Flags of Convenience," and the formation of cooperative shipping pools to operate in time of crisis. / Data for the text was compiled mainly from the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Presidential Libraries. Numerous secondary works, especially contemporary journal articles, were used. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-04, Section: A, page: 1265. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

The study analyzes the evolution of American Indian policy. It surveys the European background then focuses on North America, examining the colonial Indian policies of Spain, England, France, Holland, Sweden, and Russia, which set the stage for American policy. In a series of wars to control eastern North America, England triumphed. British Imperial Indian policy became the basis for American policy. / During the Revolution most Indians supported England, thwarting American desires to use or neutralize them. After the war America considered the Indians defeated powers, dictating terms to them. This proved unfeasible and the United States adopted the prerevolutionary British policy. / In the 1790s, problems developed including state resistance to federal authority in Indian affairs, Indian refusal to be slowly dispossessed, British intrigues in the Northwest, Spanish machinations in the Southwest, and in establishing means to regulate Indian affairs. Acts were passed to provide regulation. The factory system was created and trade and intercourse acts were adopted to regulate Indian affairs. Early expeditions to defeat the Indians were unsuccessful. State versus federal problems remained unsolved as did English and Spanish concerns. / The turning point was the War of 1812. England was defeated. The Indians east of the Mississippi River were militarily broken. Between 1810-1813 America seized Spanish West Florida neutralizing that area. Two problems remained: the jurisdictional question and Spanish-Black-Indian troubles in East Florida. / America purchased East Florida from Spain in 1819 ending colonial concerns there. The jurisdictional problem would only be solved by dispossessing the Indians in the troublesome states. By the 1820s, American Indian policy had entered a new phase. All colonial concerns were ended and America was free for the first time to adopt its own Indian policy. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, Section: A, page: 2064. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

Ossian Bingley Hart served his native state of Florida as pioneer, lawyer, entrepreneur, prosecutor, town and county official, legislator, supreme court justice, and--from January 1873 to March 1874--governor. Throughout his mature life he enjoyed respect for his honesty, integrity, and diligence. These accomplishments might not seem unusual for the son of an affluent and influential southern planter family. Hart's actions and values, though, defied many of the stereotypes associated with his background. He stood against secession in 1860 and 1861 and for the Union throughout the Civil War; he emerged from that conflict committed to the grant of full civil rights to freedmen; he acted as catalyst for the Florida Republican party's creation; and he forged a coalition of blacks and southern whites to oust the state's carpetbag leadership, reform its government, and extend the guarantee of civil rights through state law. / This study delves into the history of Florida and of the Hart family to explore the background against which a life such as Ossian Hart's--and, by extension and reflection, the lives of his contemporaries--can be measured and better understood. It permits a careful examination of the evolution of Florida's society, economy, race relations, and politics during the territorial, antebellum statehood, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. And, it argues for an understanding of the human factors of history while underscoring the diversity, divisions, and complicated interrelationships which molded personalities, issues, and events of the times. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2960. / Major Professor: William Warren Rogers. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.

Wainwright Shipyard: The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City, Florida, studied a small town's conversion to an industrial center to meet the war emergency. The U.S. Maritime Commission selected Panama City as the location for a shipyard to build cargo vessels called Liberty Ships. The Liberty Ship's simple design made it possible to build with unskilled labor. Liberty shipyards used such mass production techniques as prefabrication, pre-assembly, and welding. J. A. Jones Construction Company, Incorporated, operators of the shipyard, had to recruit and train labor for industrial work. The manpower shortage necessitated the use of non-traditional workers, i.e., women and African-Americans. / Panama City experienced a tripling of its population within a year. This population required housing and the infrastructure to support it--utilities, water and sewage, and transportation facilities. The families who located here required additional child care and educational facilities and medical services. The population strained such local government facilities as police and fire protection and the tax collection agencies. The increased population severely strained the communities' shopping and entertainment facilities. These problems required action by the local community leaders and appropriate governmental agencies such as the U.S. Maritime Commission, War Production Board, Office of Community War services, Federal Public Housing Authority, Federal Housing Administration, and the National Housing Agency to meet the community's war population needs. / The presence of Wainwright Shipyard left a lasting legacy in the community in the form of the infrastructure built to accommodate the residents that remained when the shipyard closed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 1073. / Major Professor: Neil Betten. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.

This dissertation is a venture in microhistory. Based on detailed diaries and extensive correspondence, it treats the life of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, an upper class evangelical Christian from Norfolk, Virginia, who lived from 1788 to 1843. On one level it is cultural history broadly defined, a minute study of various cultural and intellectual topics. / On another level this study is an inquiry into the relationship between ideas and the practice of life. Its ground is the history of ideas; its purpose is to suggest the connection between antecedent thought and consequent action in the intelligible relations of an ante-bellum Southern woman's life. / This study attempts a final level of investigation, an examination into manners and feelings. With one Virginia family as a recurrent setting, it seeks to sort out and assess the complex of relationships within an ante-bellum home. Children, guests, slaves--all seen against the background of an unhappy marriage--were the sad context of Louisa Cocke's daily duty and constant sorrow. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1189. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

Two groups of Western Indians were incarcerated in Florida. The first included seventy-four Southern Plains Indians (Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa) from the Indian Territory. These were kept at Fort Marion in St. Augustine from 1875 to 1878. Some were guilty of crimes such as murder, but others selected arbitrarily by Army officers or their own tribal leaders were relatively innocent of any wrongdoing. The prisoners had extensive contact with the white population in Florida, and received basic instruction in reading, writing, and Christian religion. The officer in charge of the prisoners, Captain Richard Pratt, actively solicited support from philanthropists in this educational effort, which culminated in the foundation of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. / Between 1886 and 1888, approximately 500 Apaches from Arizona were held at both Fort Marion and Fort Pickens in Pensacola. While the Plains Indian group was almost exclusively composed of male warriors, the Apache prisoners included women, children, and scouts who fought with the Army against renegades. The controversy generated by the apparent injustice of this wholesale removal, and concern for the health of the prisoners, attracted national attention. The efforts of sympathetic Army officers and the Indian Rights Association led to the prisoners relocation at Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama. / The captivity of these Native Americans in Florida is significant in that, while overtly punitive in nature, it had some positive results. The prisoners showed an ability to adapt to white culture and conducted themselves with dignity under adverse circumstances. White society in turn began to see Native Americans as human beings deserving their sympathy and respect. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3652. / Major Professor: Edward A. Keuchel. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.